Time eliminates the role luck plays in your life. If you play the long game, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be somewhat successful at something. It’s the cheat code to living a life most people won’t live. See, most people are caught in a never ending trap of instant gratification and short-term thinking. They’ll pretty […]

Sorry folks, no 10 tips for “just believing in yourself!” today. It’s time to get real. Every once in a while current events spark a fire in me that cause me to go on these serious rants. They remind me of one of the main reasons I started sharing my ideas in the first place. […]

You think you want to change but you don’t. Not at all.  It’s the absolute last thing you want to happen because it costs too much. It’s a cost so deep to bear the vast majority of people don’t do it. If people really wanted to change, the self-help industry would vanish. Hell, we’d all […]

We think there’s some magical method they can use to stop feeling fear altogether before we act. How many times have you been in a situation where you hesitated out of fear? You thought about doing whatever it is you were trying to do. And as you start to think about it more, the fear increased. […]

Say yes to all the good things you say no to and say no to all the bad things you say yes to How many potential opportunities have you said no to? Introducing yourself to someone new, taking a stab at that creative project or business, random experiences you could’ve had if you said yes […]

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle This works in both directions. We are what we repeatedly do in both a positive and a negative sense. What we say doesn’t matter all that much. Neither do our intentions. There is a win and loss column in […]

When is your breakthrough going to come? When is it all finally going to click? For some of us, it happens at 18. For others, it happens in middle age. There’s no age limit to success, but it’s best to get going as soon as possible. There are signs and stages you go through that […]

People think they’re smart or clever when they point out how difficult it is to get self-improvement to work. They’ll point out how people have access to different opportunities and privileges because of circumstances they have no control over. I always grant that point. They’ll talk about low the odds are for many of the […]

Everyone is trying to sell you a dream. Society tries to sell you the dream of following its rules to live life the ‘right’ way — good to school, get good grades, find a nice job, buy a house in the suburbs, and drive a car that looks like every other car but has a […]

I lost 15 million dollars, my wife left me, and I was on the floor crying next to an empty bottle every night. That’s how my favorite writer, James Altucher, would introduce so many of his blog posts. Most of his articles are about the art of the comeback. He’s made and lost millions of […]