One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Give up the following four thieves of productivity in order to get more of what you want, and less of what you don’t.
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, and more. Here are a few of my most popular Articles + Podcast episodes to get you started: Action Leads to Motivation → How to Overcome Lack of Motivation → 6 Journaling Ideas That'll Change Your Life → How to Overcome Laziness + Start Taking Action → Legend: 📖 = Article • 🎧 = Podcast
The First Key To Mastery : Finding Your Life’s Task
MENU: //READ //LISTEN “At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. It has a natural, assertive energy to it. Your Life’s Task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work. You have a destiny […]
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.
12 Powerful Mini Habits To Practice Each Day
Mini habits are daily routines/rituals that take just a few minutes to perform, but have huge returns in the overall quality of your life as a result of doing so. So, what are some good “mini habits” to practice each day? Glad you asked. Here are my top 12: Before you go to bed at […]
Habit Loops: The Secret to Creating or Breaking Any Habit
When you woke up this morning, what did you do first? Did you hop in the shower, did you check your email, or did you grab a doughnut from the kitchen counter? Did you brush your teeth before or after you toweled off? Which route did you drive to work? And when you got home, […]
Stressed Out? Remember Your Core Values
“The kind of self-affirmation I’m talking about—the kind whose effects [researchers] have studied—doesn’t have anything to do with reciting generic one-liners in the mirror, nor does it involve boasting or self-aggrandizement. Instead it’s about reminding ourselves what matters most to us and, by extension, who we are. In effect, it’s a way of grounding ourselves […]
How To Wake Up Early and Workout
How To Wake Up Early and Workout: 7 simple steps to make waking up and working out a sustainable habit for life.
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 athlete’s boxing career may or may-not be. The “tales of the tape” were a series of physical measurements that included the […]
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 NOT going to do.” “If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.” Tweetable summary: Think BIG, but focus on ONE specific thing […]
Leaders Eat Last : Book Summary
Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek The main message of Leaders Eat Last is simple — the buck stops at the leader’s desk. In other words, those of us that lead may not always understand the impact that our leadership roles actually have on those we lead.
What’s the most valuable skill a person learn in life?
About seven months ago, my wife and I found out we were going to be bringing a life into this world. It made me scared, excited, nervous, and happy — all at the same time. As we started closing in on the due date, I began thinking about this question: What’s the ONE most important […]
Book Summary : Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of Flow, is sorta like the Godfather of positive psychology … Hailed by researchers and positive psychologists from every corner of the globe — “Mr. C” as I’m sure he’s known as in many circles — has redefined the way we approach “a life worth living” in the modern world. Csikszentmihalyi’s calls these meaningful moments […]