Category Archives for "life lessons"

If you took the internet’s word for it and never left the house, you’d swear we’re living in the apocalypse. You’re hard-pressed to find anything positive. This is understandable. In our current times, a lot of bad things are happening. But one thing had been confusing me. Why haven’t many people been talking about, you […]

Five years ago, I was a loser. I no longer wanted to be a loser, so I went searching for answers and stumbled across self-improvement. Through luck, divine intervention, I don’t know, I got the opportunity to share what I’d been learning through writing. The rest is history. I’m not perfect, but I’ve learned many […]

“How to be successful” is such an open-ended concept that no one person can provide a sufficient definition. When you’re looking for answers on how to be successful, aim to find the definitions that best match your tastes and preferences. Deep down, you know what success means to you. I’m here to help you unearth […]

Self-improvement sounds amazing until you really have to put it into practice. Everyone preaches stoicism, but few could use it in truly dire times. How many Ryan Holiday readers are practicing Amor Fati during the co-vid 19 epidemic? Mental toughness is great in theory, but when the time comes to exercise it, staying resilient in […]

How many times have you tried to set a goal and failed? You can’t even count…the number is that high. You’ve failed to reach your goals so many times that, deep down, you feel eternally cursed to live the same life. You look at the future and everything is…the same. It scares you, but you […]

I hate what they’ve done to you. Who do I mean by ‘they’? This haphazardly cobbled together Kabal of media pundits, institutional overlords, politicians, employers, and well-meaning authority figures that have not only convinced you that you’re average, but that it’s okay to be average. It’s not okay to be average. I’m not saying there’s […]

“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 […]

“Work at your job and make a living. Work on yourself and make a fortune” – Jim Rohn Self-improvement is the cheat code to life. Once you understand it at a deep level, the entire universe opens up to you. No, reading self-help books won’t magically turn you into a millionaire, but it’s not a […]

Wanna know my secret to success? It’s definitely not what you think it is. It’s not grit, persistence, determination, moxy, spunk, mental toughness, none of the adjectives from the guru’s dictionary. In fact, my secret to success could be considered the opposite of those traits. What secret, you ask? I care less than you do. […]

“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 […]