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I get it. Changing your life isn’t easy in and of itself. Changing your life in the midst of historically bad times makes the process even more difficult. To pretend that some pieces of self-help wisdom will automatically pull you out of your mental state is foolish. Here’s the way I look at it. Negative […]

We adopt societal scripts that make us feel uneasy with the idea of being successful. You’re made to feel like Monty Burns from the Simpsons if you want to live what, in your opinion, is an above-average lifestyle. There’s a certain level of guilt associated with trying to achieve your long-term goals. Underneath that guilt, […]

About 30 is when you realize your parents will die. It starts to hit them, too. In the past few years, I’m 31, I’ve started to have more frank conversations with my parents. I started to see them in totality, including their flaws. I started to see some of the results of the things they […]

Some employees at Random House Publishing asked the company not to publish Jordan Peterson’s new book. Apparently, several employees broke down crying. One employee had this to say about Peterson: “He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his […]

Have you ever noticed that when you’re a little bit too eager to get a result, that result eludes you? You need to have the desire for an outcome to put in the effort to try to achieve it, but if you force the situation too much,  you won’t get what you want. Or you […]

The questions you ask yourself determine the answers you get. The answers you get determine the decisions you make. The decisions you make combined with the circumstances you start from create the life you have now. As Socrates said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” So, examine your life. Don’t just let life happen to […]

We’ve all been through this scenario before. I call it the habit death spiral. You’re in the process of trying to form good habits, reach a long-term goal, and/or maintain the good habits you already do have. Things have been going well for a while until you reach that fateful day. Diet and exercise is […]

“I have all this time on my hands now, I bet I’m going to be insanely productive.” When I quit my job a year and a half ago, I thought having unlimited time and flexibility would lead to these massive workdays. Since I had so much free time, I figured I’d work 10-12 hour days […]

All self-improvement advice is more or less the same. You have to listen to the advice over and over again while trying to implement it into your life. As Zig Ziglar said: “Motivation doesn’t last. Neither do showers. That’s why they’re recommended daily.” For whatever reason, some advice works better when it comes from the […]

Make no mistake about it, self-improvement can be harmful. Take the wrong advice from the wrong person and your life can get worse. You’re right to be skeptical about any claims anyone makes about helping you improve your life. A few reasons why: All humans are fallible and their interpretation of the world is a […]