Imagine this. Anytime you set a goal for yourself, it’s as good as done. You have permanent motivation. You’ve worked on your craft, hobby, or business for so long that you barely remember being a novice at all. You’re on go-mode and autopilot at all times. While everyone else gets tired, you keep going. I […]

“Every truth is but a half-truth.” As much as I love self-improvement and sharing it with others, I always pepper my insights with caveats. Nothing is straightforward. Every important truth is a paradox. If you want to be successful, you need to be comfortable with holding contradictory thoughts in your mind at the same time. […]

  “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” – Charlie Munger   They say the mark of a charlatan is someone who always tells you what to do, but never tells you what to avoid. Sometimes, […]

2020 is the year of owning your ambition. Stop trying to collect modesty points. “I’m content.” Shut your non-content ass up. Stop lying to yourself, please. Not for me, but for your own good. We all pretend to want things we don’t want. And we do this for a few reasons: We don’t think we […]

“You have nothing to fear but fear itself!” – Some dumb guru. What? You have puhlenty to fear. You can experience one of the worst feelings ever — the feeling of trying and putting your all into something yet still not getting the outcome you want. That one stings the most because…where do you go […]

You know what gives you hope that you’ll be able to change your life, even though you haven’t done it yet? You’ve had those waves of motivation. You’ve had these times where you’ve risen to the occasion and followed through with one of your goals. It’s just the stringing-together-of-multiple-goals things you’re struggling with. I’ve been […]

Is self-improvement a total fraud? I saw this Geico commercial the other night that made me laugh. It also pointed out a brutal truth about the self-improvement industry. “Can Geico save you 15 percent or more on car insurance?” “Is Pinocchio a terrible motivational speaker?” It cuts to Pinocchio giving a seminar. Each time he […]

“She’s not the one.” A group of friends and I are sitting around a kitchen counter having drinks. You know how conversations get when the liquor gets flowing a bit. The truth comes out. We got on the subject of relationships. I’m newly divorced. One of the women is a month removed from her husband […]

Let me see if I can paint an accurate picture of your life. You get thrown off emotionally almost every single day of your life. From petty annoyances to the deep-seated anxieties you have to the over-analyzing of your past and the incessant worrying about the future, you just feel like you’re caught in an […]

You’re weird. I am, too. We all are. We all, to some degree, do something that’s very strange. On the one hand, we’re totally preoccupied with ourselves. On the other hand, we don’t do everything possible to help ourselves live better lives. From a logical perspective, this makes no sense. But one of the biggest […]