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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How to Find Your Why and Communicate Your Purpose
All businesses, organizations, and careers operate on three levels: (1) WHAT we do, (2) HOW we do it, and (3) WHY we do it.We’re all acquainted with WHAT we do—the products we sell, the services we …
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The Guide to Developing Self-Discipline
If you lookup the definition of self-discipline, you’ll usually see something like this: Self-discipline is the power to get yourself to take action regardless of whether you feel like it or not. …
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Action Leads to Motivation
The majority of people looking for motivation will wait for something, or someone, to come around and motivate them before they can get up and take action to motivate themselves. This is the wrong …
10 Books on Increasing Your Creativity
Increasing your creativity—or developing any sense of creativity in the first place—seems to be hardest when you need it most. Personally, I’d always thought “creativity” was sort of elusive. I …
6 Journaling Ideas That Will Make You Better. Period.
If I had to choose between throwing my iPhone into a burning fire vs. throwing my journal into the fire, the journal would win every single time. The journal—it’s one of those things that can be as …
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