“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal I woke up this morning and did something I haven’t done in years, maybe even a decade or more. Rather, I didn’t do something — check my phone the moment I woke up.  I decided to try […]

How do you start a billion-dollar company? Simple. Just make a few phone calls.  Sir Richard Branson was stuck at an airport after his flight was canceled en route to Puerto Rico. In a pinch, he came up with an idea that would spark the creation of Virgin Airlines. He collected money from fellow travelers, […]

Ugh, another blog post on the benefits of waking up early. Don’t we already have enough of these? Look, before we dive into the tips, let me start by saying this — you don’t have to wake up early. You’re not destined for failure if you wake up early. I’m not going to look down […]

Do you find yourself feeling like a failure? My consensus shows many people do. My inbox is filled with depression. On a daily basis, I get emails from people who feel like abject failures, but I know for a fact that they’re not. Yes, there is such a thing as a real loser. But that’s […]

What is the meaning of life?  The deep profound question that endless amounts of people have tried to answer.  Hunter S. Thompson famously had this to say in a letter he wrote to a friend (found in the book: Letters of Note) who asked him the meaning of life: “You ask advice: ah, what a […]

I hate Tom Brady. Every.Single.Year. It doesn’t matter which team the media hypes. The regular season itself doesn’t matter. It’s as if the rest of the NFL doesn’t exist, except for the New England Patriots. As much as I hate Tom Brady (Packers fan), I secretly love, admire, and respect him. He’s in that class […]

Of all the life lessons I’m about to give you, one stands tall above the rest. Your life belongs to you.  You can shirk responsibility for it all you want, but the consequences of your decisions will occur either way. You can tell yourself whatever narrative you want, but your results will be your results. […]

“It won’t be much, but I could start paying you.” Roughly four years ago, these were the words I heard from Lance, an editor I was working with at Thought Catalog. I’d been writing for the website for a while. The company decided to give Lance a freelance budget to start paying some of the […]

One thing all of society can agree on — water is good for you. Surely, no one thinks water is bad, right? I hope not. Anyway, why am I bringing this up? Even water can kill you if you drink too much of it at once. This happens to people who take ex or molly, […]

Here’s the sad truth that applies to 95% of you. That thing you want to do, the path you want to go on, the business you want to start, the new career you want to pursue? Not only won’t you do it now. But, odds are, you’ll never do it. Why? Because you don’t have […]