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I get it. You don’t want someone talking from a pedestal, telling you what to do. It’s easy enough for someone like me to start doling out advice without sharing any insights from my own life. So, that’s what I’ll do. We all have a pretty good idea of what we need to do to […]

It’s so strange. You can spend long stretches of your life living a certain way without changing at all. You can be deeply stuck, but, then, one day you start changing your life for real this time. Something happens. There are signs pointing to the fact that you’re on the verge of finally being ready. Then, […]

Life is already hard enough. Don’t care if you’re a billionaire or working at Burger King, each of us has problems to deal with that are just inherent to being human. So, what do we do? Do we optimally deal with all of our problems, analyzing and quickly solving each one? Do we act rationally […]

Even if you’ve spent a ton of time in your life making the wrong choices and failing to live up to your potential, there can come a day when you just finally decide to change. What’s different about that moment or those sets of moments that lead to a major turnaround? It’s difficult to pinpoint. […]

Millions of people have read my words. A small percentage of those people decide to join my email list. Out of that small percentage of people who join my email list, only a small handful of them will ever buy anything from me. If you’re launching something like an information product, depending on the price, […]

Most [people] make the error of thinking that one day it will be done. They think, “If I can work enough, then one day I could rest.”Or, “I’m only doing this now so that one day I can do what I really want with my life.” The […] error is to think that eventually, things […]

Have you ever experienced a moment where your emotions totally took control of you? Where, no matter how much you wish you weren’t experiencing the emotion, there was nothing you can do about it? This often happens when we experience fear. You go into fight or flight mode. Your heart starts beating fast, the blood […]

There’s a quote from Naval Ravikant that I think about often: “Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” How do you separate the positive benefits of growth, accomplishment, and success with the underlying theme that you, we, do all of these things at least partially […]

“You’re an enigma,” he told me. I was sitting in the office with one of my marketing professors in college, trying to convince him to let me pass his class with a C. We made a deal that if I did well on the last group assignment for the year, he’d let me pass. He […]

Nothing but green. After I made my first initial deposit into my Robinhood investing account, I saw nothing but green. I didn’t have much money in there, but it felt good to see the percentage increase day by day, and most importantly to see green. Just seeing that color has a psychological pull on you. […]