”Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.” —Pericles When we don’t have …
Personal Development Archives
Welcome to the cornerstone of my site: The Personal Development section. Here, you'll find my best articles and podcast episodes about self-improvement, productivity, motivation, habits, happiness, relationships, and more.
Internalize Your Habits
After publishing my piece on forming new habits, I received a flurry of email submissions with various habit-forming-related questions. One of the …
How to Form a New Habit in 10 Simple Steps
On a scale of one to ten, how sick are you of setting goals and falling short? The key to achieving your goals—especially those big hairy ambitious …
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2019: Year of Action
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 …
5 Tips for Avoiding Procrastination
Most of us procrastinate. Correction: ALL of us procrastinate. Heck, I even procrastinated writing this article. We’ve all been there at some point. …
You are not your inner dialogue
“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it.” —Michael …
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 …
Principles: Life and Work
"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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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