Beware! These ten inner enemies can quickly erode your grandest plans and your noblest intentions. They can drain your life of passion and potential, and fill your spirit with lifelong regret.
Always taking the path of least resistance. – Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind […]
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
-Coco Chanel
When we think about how to achieve success, we often focus on the skills and habits we should add to our lives. But sometimes the key to success actually lies in our ability to give up certain habits and behaviors. So […]
When life gets stressful and you feel like you’re losing your emotional balance, use one or more of these simple tricks to help you relax your mind and re-center yourself in an instant.
Wash your hands and face, and brush your teeth. – The simple act of cleaning these parts of your body is both reinvigorating […]
The human mind is wonderful and powerful, but it’s far from perfect. There are several common judgment errors that it’s prone to making. In the field of Psychology these are known as cognitive biases, or fallacies in reasoning. They happen to everyone regardless of age, sex, education or intelligence.
Over the past few months I’ve become […]
There are a lot of skills you don’t need. You can be happy and successful without knowing how to rebuild a car’s engine, program a web application, or replace drywall. Sure, these are useful skills to have, but they aren’t absolutely necessary.
There are other skills, however, that can’t be avoided – skills that tie into […]
Many of us attempt to measure our happiness based on the duration of certain favorable experiences in our lives. The longer a favorable experience lasts, the happier we think we’ll be. But the truth is, life is simply a string of small, independent moments that are always changing. Thus, a few minutes well spent here […]
Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to
succeed faster, double your rate of failure.
Have you ever seen a child learn to ride a bike, or a toddler learn to walk? They stumble and fall numerous times before getting it right. Mistakes are learning opportunities. It takes failure after failure to create success. […]
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Life is actually pretty simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Here are a few easy ways to uncomplicate it:
Learn from the past, and then get the heck out of there! – Past mistakes should teach you to create a wonderful future; not cause you to be […]
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless,
add what is specifically your own.”
– Bruce Lee
Being highly productive is not an innate talent; it’s simply a matter of organizing your life so that you can efficiently get the right things done.
So, what behaviors define highly productive people? What habits and strategies make them consistently more […]
I’ve always been fascinated by people who are consistently successful at what they do; especially those who experience repeated success in many areas of their life throughout their lifetime. In entertainment, I think of Clint Eastwood and Oprah Winfrey. In business, I think of Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett. We all have our own examples […]
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