Do you know how many times I’ve felt like an insane person for wanting to become a full-time writer? Who blogs for a living, one out of every ten thousand people who try? I’m probably being generous. Do you know how many times I felt like giving up? Constantly, but I never did. Do you […]

It’s easy to scoff at “fortune cookie wisdom.” There are many little sayings that seem simple, pithy, and worthless, but I’ve found that profound wisdom can come from sayings like these if you actually take them to heart and use them. Over the years, I’ve picked up little sayings like this and have used them […]

“You can wish in one hand, and take a dump in another, see which one fills up first.” I saw someone say that in a YouTube video once. He used a more vulgar epithet than ‘take a dump’ too. Look, sometimes it’s important to hear to hear that no amount of wishing is going actually […]

When I look at the world, I see a world full of people who want to level up their life. As much as self-improvement gets a bad rap, that desire to improve will never go away. You can try to pretend like you don’t want to improve. You can convince yourself that success is reserved […]

We’re in a war of ideas. Everyone wants their ideology to be right. At one point, I used to care a lot about whether or not people shared my worldview. But now? I’ve come to a realization. The truth will show up in our results. We don’t have to argue about anything. I’ll live my […]

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 […]