At the beginning of each year, for four full years, I’d set goals to quit my corporate job to start doing work that actually matters to me. For four full years, I told myself I’d start my own …
Goal Setting
Goal Setting plays a massive role in success. If you want to level-up your personal development game, you're going to need to learn how to set—and get—goals. And there's a science to doing it properly. These articles, audios, posts and podcast episodes will show you how.
Be Specific
Imagine you’re at work. It’s a normal day. Business as usual. You need to pee, so you get up and walk towards the bathroom to handle your business. As you head back to your desk, you look outside of a …
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 …
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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Focus on The Practice
It’s the new year, and by now you’ve probably reflected on the past year. And you’ve probably started setting—or started thinking about setting—some resolutions and goals for the new year ahead. It’s …
SMART Goals + Stretch Goals = SUCCESS
This is part II of our two part series on goal setting, inspired by the book, Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg (get the full book summary here). In part I, we talked about why it’s important to …
Smarter Faster Better, Part I: Why SMART Goals Don’t Work
This is Part 1 of a 2-Part series on how to become smarter, faster and better at goal setting, inspired by the book, Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg. Here’s what we cover in Part 1: Why …
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The Growth Mindset: Muhammad Ali’s Real Secret To Success
Ali’s brilliance was his mind. His brains, not his brawn. Back since the earliest days of boxing, experts relied on what they called the “tales of the tape” to predict how successful a given …
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The ONE Thing – Book Summary
The One Thing : The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan “Success is sequential, not simultaneous” “Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re …