Category Archives for "life lessons"

It’s one of the corniest self-improvement cliches, but believing in yourself means everything. It’s the difference between living the life you want to live deep down or continuing to remain on the sidelines — afraid to do all of the things you’d do if you just had a little bit more confidence, certainty, and conviction. […]

Wanna know something that makes me happy? Cocaine. Used to do loads of it in college. It makes you feel invincible, insanely confident, extroverted to the max and turns you into the life of the party. Especially if you took a few shots beforehand. Also, weed. It’s pretty hard to feel down on yourself when […]

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 […]

“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 […]

The more I learn about self-improvement, the more I understand that much of the process involves subtraction. Instead of focusing on what to do, focus on what not to do, and avoid it. Figure what’s weighing you down so that you can let go of it and move more freely. No need to be hyper-focused […]

“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.” – Charlie Munger You can point the blame in a ton of directions to explain why you don’t have what you personally want in your life. […]

I just turned 31 a few days ago. Like many others, I’m going to continue a yearly tradition of sharing the pieces of wisdom I’ve gained along the way. This will change and grow every year because I’m a student of life, just as you should be. I’ve learned some of these lessons from books, […]

Self-help is amazing and it also sucks. On the one hand, I know for certain that pretty much everyone of a reasonable intelligence level can pull off truly astonishing goals — including you. The ‘maxed out’ version of you is probably unimaginable. Even reaching, let’s say, 20 or 30 percent of what you’re truly capable […]

What do you think of when you think of the word ‘smart’? Do you think of someone with high intellect who can use a lot of fancy words? Do you think of someone with street smarts who has a way of navigating the world? To me, intelligence is predicated on your ability to cut through […]