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5 Brutal Lessons that Ultimately Make Life Beautiful

04.06.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 11 Comments

The most common reason for our collective suffering on an average day is our resistance to the truth.

Sometimes it’s brutally hard to accept life’s greatest lessons, and yet we must.

Because it’s lessons like these that ultimately make our lives beautiful, by showing us how to thrive even through the toughest of times:

1. Everyone and everything in life is limited.

You can never read all the books you want to read. You can never train yourself in all the skill sets you want to have. You can never be [Read more…]

One Simple Perspective Shift that Will Change the Way You See the World

04.03.2023 by Marc Chernoff // 14 Comments

As human beings, we subconsciously tell ourselves stories pretty much every waking minute of our lives. And these stories we tell ourselves don’t just change how we feel, they actually change what we see, what we experience, and what we know to be true. This is one of the primary reasons multiple people can go through the same experience, but interpret it differently. Each of us may enter a shared experience with a different story echoing through our mind, and our unique story — our inner dialog — alters the way we feel. So each of us exits this shared experience with a different perspective on what just happened. And sometimes these differences literally make [Read more…]

14 Rules for Being YOU Today

04.02.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 23 Comments

Be yourself. Trying to be anyone else is a waste of the person you are. Embrace that individual inside you that has ideas, strengths, and beauty like no one else. Be the person you know yourself to be — the best version of you — on your terms. And above all, be true to YOU — if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Starting today…

1. Get your priorities straight.

Twenty years from now it won’t really matter what shoes you wore today, how your hair looked, or what brand of jeans you bought. What will matter is [Read more…]

10 Life Choices You Will Regret in 10 Years

03.28.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 18 Comments

“If only…” These two words paired together create one of the saddest phrases in the English language.

Here are ten life choices that ultimately lead to that phrase of regret, and how to elude them on the average day:

1. Wearing a mask to impress others.

If the face you always show the world is a mask, someday there will be nothing beneath it. Because when you spend too much time concentrating on [Read more…]

20 Things You Need to Stop Wasting Your Time On

03.26.2023 by Marc Chernoff // 27 Comments

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
— Benjamin Franklin

I recently received a thank you email from a reader and course student named Hope. She said our work helped motivate her through an arduous recovery process following a serious car accident last year. Although her entire story was both heartbreaking and inspiring, this one line made me pause and think:

“The happiest moment of my life is still that split-second a year ago when, as I laid crushed under a 2000 pound car, I realized my husband and 9-year-old boy were out of the vehicle and absolutely OK.”

Dire moments like this force us to [Read more…]