"If you can think for yourself while being open-minded in a clearheaded way to find out what is best for you to do, and if you can summon up the courage to do it, you will make the most of your life. …
3 Personality Types That Are Obstacles to Mastery
In his book Mastery, George Leonard writes that “we all aspire to mastery, but the path is always long and sometimes rocky, and it promises no quick and easy payoffs. So we look for other paths, each …
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Sell or Be Sold
Everything in life is sales. Succeeding at selling leads to succeeding at life — both personally and professionally. (click to tweet) Whatever you do for a living, I can guarantee you that it …
Self Development and Communication: 6 Ways to Elevate Your Life by Elevating Your Communication
“The best communication occurs when both people are sincere—one sincerely wishing to learn or listen, and the other sincerely wishing to share.”—Jim Rohn, Leading an Inspired Life The fact that we …
Achieving Self-Ownership Through Skin in the Game
“What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.“—Nassim Nicholas Taleb (from Skin in the Game) Once upon a time, a wild wolf stumbles his way into a …
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Turning Weakness into Strength
A few days ago, the wife and I found out that our two year-old, Nora—who’d been coughing and crying and causing all kinds of chaos—had caught pneumonia. So, we took her to our pediatrician, who wrote …
Idea Killers
Throughout your long, beautifully fantastic life, it’s very likely you’ll interact with a wide range of different characters. Some of them will be awesome. Some of them will not. And the most …
How to Make Yourself Indispensable
How indispensable do you believe yourself to be …to your employer? …to your customers? …to anyone you rely on to regularly exchange value with? If you work for a company—are you indispensable, or …
30 More Life Lessons Learned in 30 Years
Read: 📄 | Listen: 🎧 Last year, on my 30th birthday, I published a piece on the 30 Life Lessons I Learned in 30 Years. Both the article and podcast versions of that piece became incredibly popular. …
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