We all want to progress and improve. We all want success and to achieve goals that make us proud, and to help others around us.
That’s a really good thing.
In order to do those things, some days you just need to live. Be honest with yourself about your good intentions and forget how big the world [...]

Failure scares people. Rejection can be a painful experience. Many people are more scared to give a speech in front of their peers than they are of death itself. It seems ridiculous, but the reality is that for many many people, the anxiety associated with failure crippling.
The flipside (the Truth) is, if you embrace failure [...]

Hercules is strong. But like the rest of us, he needs help every now and again.
One day Hercules was outside and he saw a nasty-looking beast rear its head on the side of the road. He took his club and smashed the beast’s head. To his surprise, the beast grew three heads instead of one. [...]

As we refine our goals and come closer to picking one that meets our desires, fear sets in. Fear that we don’t know what the future holds. Fear that we don’t know what we want. Fear that we’ll pick wrong. These fears suck the creativity out of you. They feel horrible and “if you could [...]

“I’m going to learn how to swim,” I’ve been saying to friends for the last month. I’ve looked up classes, found out which one is the right level and price for me, and wrote down the pool schedule. Dug up my bathing suit. Even went to Tim Ferris’s blog to find [...]

In Nepal, the dogs bark all night long. Every 20 minutes or so they all stop at the same time and there’s an immense feeling of relief.
Then they start back up again.
Turns out the Nepali people don’t freak out, throw stones or beat the dogs into silence. They don’t do anything at all. They realize [...]

The “Doom Loop” is actually a defined business concept in Jim Collins Good to Great.
It’s when you:
a.) Find a new direction
b.) Enter a new program
c.) get a new leader
d.) start a new event
e.) react to a new fad
without having any plan of action, no accumulated momentum, no buildup, no direction. You then get disappointing results [...]

In tennis, No-man’s land is not where you want to be. The space between the baseline and volley line, it’s where you’ll likely hit the least shots.
The problem with no-man’s land is that you reach too far to hit long balls and too far to hit short balls. The middle is not an advantageous position [...]

Language is important.
When helping others or giving advice/feedback, language is critical in determining the outcome of the situation. It sets the tone for how both parties will feel after the interaction is over.
When we use “we” “our” “us” instead of the singular “I” “you” “me” that we’re so often used to, it creates a shared [...]

Many times, excess money, time and frustration is spent on back up choices.
Instead of spending enough time creating the right solution or making the right decision, we rely on alternative solutions for security, to make sure we won’t misstep, to diminish risk.
Having a plan B is smart. It’s wise to have a plan C, perhaps.
Problem [...]