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Self Development and Communication | Masters of life are masters of communication. You can’t have one without the other.
Here are 6 powerful communication strategies you can begin to implement immediately to help you improve your life, achieve your goals, and grow yourself in the process:
“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 suburban neighborhood in Orange County, California. “Hmm, quiet neighborhood,” the wolf thinks to himself, “wonder if […]
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 up a script for some antibiotics. And from there, we drove over to the local CVS. I park the car, […]
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 despicable among this group of non-awesome people, will be those that try to rob you of the pure joy that comes from having […]
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos By Jordan B. Peterson About: Over the years, (former) Harvard and (current) University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson has developed what he believes to be a definitive set of rules for leading a successful and fulfilling life. Originally conceived of with 40 rules, […]
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 are you easily replaceable? How hard would it be for your employer to find someone that can do what you can do, […]
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. The audio version has racked up over 125,000 downloads, and the article version has been read by over a million people. This tells […]
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 offer, the jobs we do. A few of us know HOW we do it—the things we think differentiate us or […]
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. Developing self-discipline requires a willingness and capability to act — regardless of your current emotional state. And all of this is true. But […]
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 approach. I operated with this “motivation comes before action” mentality for years before finally realizing that I had it all backwards. […]
10 Books on Increasing Your Creativity | Some of us have a tough time tapping into our creative genius. If that’s you, add these books to your reading list.
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 useless as a piece of trash, or one of the most valuable things you’ve ever owned… It all […]
