Category Archives for "Careers"

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” Being the rat race doesn’t apply to everyone who works a 9 to 5 job. It simply means you’re in a position where your efforts aren’t going to lead to somewhere you want to be. It’s the process of […]

Reading more books is the cheat code to getting what you want from life. Some of the smartest people in the world take the time to share their hard-earned wisdom with you. And you get to digest it all in a few hours. When you start to read more, especially when the books are about […]

Deep down, most people know the brutally honest truth. You know it, too. Nobody is coming to save you. Yes, there are a ton of things that can be, need to be, and even will be improved about society. Politics matters. When I say nobody is coming to save you, I’m saying nobody is going […]

You feel like you’re far away from the amazing outcomes you want in your life. You do have the desire to achieve major goals and dreams, but how is desire going to carry you through from the start to finish when the length of the race just seems so long? The crazy thing? In retrospect, […]

There’s such a wide-open space of careers that you can pretty much do anything you want with your life. But you won’t have the career you want if you make the same mistake I see people make over and over again. And it doesn’t matter what you do. I’ve seen passionate people and people who […]

Flashback in time: I’m 26 years old, my girlfriend is pregnant, and we’re living in her parents’ basement rent-free because we were that broke. I’d just started writing about a year before that. I wasn’t making any serious money with it yet, but at that point, I knew it was something I wanted to do […]

Have you ever wanted to tell your boss to fuck off? What about your co-workers? Clients? Customers? When you have a job, even a job you like, part of the deal involves being agreeable and making concessions even when you don’t feel like it. If you’ve spent any time in corporate America, you can almost […]

If you want to live a successful life in 2020 and beyond, you need to adopt a new set of skills. Hell, you’ll need to learn these skills just to be able to keep up. Society is fragmenting into two parallel realities. In one reality, you have infinite upside and opportunity. In the other reality, […]

If you’re asking yourself, “Should I quit my job?” the answer is yes. Most people who have jobs should quit their jobs. But they can’t. And you probably can’t either. At least not this very second. How do you quit a job you hate, tolerate, or feel lukewarm about and replace it with a dream […]

99 percent of people on planet earth care deeply about money. Aside from Tibetan monks, priests, nuns, and a few truly dedicated (and weird) minimalists, money is always near the top of our minds because, in most situations, it has to be. Until the world suddenly runs on a different currency, maybe toilet paper, you’ll […]