There’s a saying: you don’t get what you want, you get what you are. As Jim Rohn once said, “Success is something you attract by the person you become.” Sure, you have to accomplish certain tasks and enact certain behaviors to move closer to your goals, but it’s the change in your identity that causes […]

You’re alone. Cold. Hungry. Abandoned. You said or did something to offend a high-ranking member of your tribe. Your life has been nothing more than a pure fight for survival. And now, because you made the slightest of gaffes, you just cost yourself your life. It takes a group to hunt and protect itself from […]

I’d promised my five-year-old daughter that I’d go to the store, grab some nail polish, and do her nails. We had a busy weekend, a great weekend, filled with a bunch of activities. I woke up Monday morning to drop her off at school. “Daddy! You forgot to get the nail polish.” She was hurt, […]

It’s hard to tell you exactly how to be successful. But there are always attitudes, behaviors, and strategies that will definitely not help you reach your goals. I’ve talked about the process of inversion many times — figure out what doesn’t work and avoid doing it. Pretty simple, right? That’s the thing about getting what […]

“Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” – Steven Pressfield For most of my life, I’ve felt like I had to put on a persona to get people to like me. Whether […]

I get it. You don’t want someone talking from a pedestal, telling you what to do. It’s easy enough for someone like me to start doling out advice without sharing any insights from my own life. So, that’s what I’ll do. We all have a pretty good idea of what we need to do to […]

It’s so strange. You can spend long stretches of your life living a certain way without changing at all. You can be deeply stuck, but, then, one day you start changing your life for real this time. Something happens. There are signs pointing to the fact that you’re on the verge of finally being ready. Then, […]

Life is already hard enough. Don’t care if you’re a billionaire or working at Burger King, each of us has problems to deal with that are just inherent to being human. So, what do we do? Do we optimally deal with all of our problems, analyzing and quickly solving each one? Do we act rationally […]

Even if you’ve spent a ton of time in your life making the wrong choices and failing to live up to your potential, there can come a day when you just finally decide to change. What’s different about that moment or those sets of moments that lead to a major turnaround? It’s difficult to pinpoint. […]

Millions of people have read my words. A small percentage of those people decide to join my email list. Out of that small percentage of people who join my email list, only a small handful of them will ever buy anything from me. If you’re launching something like an information product, depending on the price, […]