Invest in Yourself, Not Assets, Under $200K
If you earn under $200k/year - the only place you should be investing is in yourself. All your focus needs to be leveling up skills to earn more money. Don’t invest in stocks, real estate or private equity.
Repetition Shapes Your Brain, Not Just Motivation
You become what you repeatedly do. Not as a motivational slogan. As a neurological fact.
Celebrate Accountability, Optimism, and Joyful Simplicity
This is a shout out to those who don’t complain, lean into accountability and simple perspectives and optimism and joy an love ❤️ #garyvee #mindset #accountability
Education's Goal: Unlearn to See With Fresh Eyes
"The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things." ~ Gk Chesterton What can you unlearn today? How can you see something with a fresh set of eyes and an openmindness that was not there before?...
Consuming Content Hinders Execution, Not Progress
This is gonna sting for some of you: The more inputs you consume, the harder execution becomes. - Podcasts - Courses - Threads - Videos You FEEL you're making progress, but you're really just delaying the results you could be getting.
Life's Finite—Choose Fitness and Happiness
You're gonna die no matter what you do. So you may as well be fit and happy
Track Everything, Unlock Performance Through Self‑
When I have my clients and athletes consistently document: ✅ Sleep ✅ Training ✅ Nutrition & hydration ✅ Reading/studying ✅ Time spent on apps/video games It builds powerful self-awareness around their daily habits what’s truly serving their goals and what’s quietly holding them back. You can’t correct...
Leap Day: Exercising Imagination for World‑Changing Innovation
Imagination is like a muscle. We’re all born with it, but it begins to waste away if we don’t use it. And at Flagship, our team’s imagination is the most valuable resource we have. It’s how we go beyond incremental...
Purpose, Not Pounds, Drives Sustainable Life Change
🤯 The truth about real lasting change. Weight loss is a valid goal, but as a standalone motivation, it seldom lasts. It's just not sturdy enough. They key is a lasting change in how you want to spend the days of...
True Greatness Is Readiness, Not Guaranteed Victory
When the greats are ready, it doesn’t mean they know they’ll win or get it right. It means they are prepared to face whatever comes up when they step into the arena. They are rugged and flexible. They respond not...
Stop Being a Background Character; Claim Your Worth
Comment 🙌 if you’re done standing in the background of your own life and ready to own your worth.
Using an Anti‑Vision Board to Avoid Past Pitfalls
I just made a new "anti vision board" and set it as my desktop wallpaper, so every time I open my PC I’m reminded of what I never want to go back to. What do you think of it? https://t.co/KX5C1RBoB4
Morning 90‑Minute Writing Clears Your Biggest Challenges
Writing every morning for 90 minutes will solve a significant number of your current problems
Your Choices Define the Game, Not the End
Carve your path in life. We all go into the same box at the end of the game, so its how you choose to play that matters.
Prioritize Sleep: The Ultimate Weapon Against Societal Chaos
Everything in society attacks sleep. It’s humanity's greatest risk because it strips clear thinking. Build your life around sleep. It’s worth it. Of all the longevity stuff I’ve done, I’m most proud of my learned ability to sleep. It represents overcoming...
Growth Comes From Coaches Who Push Beyond Comfort
Tom Brady: You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure. https://t.co/yGwDhNbzaa
Three Steps to a Healthier Relationship with ADHD
I’ve spent my life doing research about the ADHD mind: 🐿️ As a young person I lived it 📝 During grad school, I conducted my doctoral research on it 🎤 For my first TEDx talk, I spoke about it 🛋️ And in my...
Embrace Constraints: Boost Creativity by Thinking Inside the Box
Stuck in a creative rut? Try thinking “inside the box” and use constraints to your advantage. Listen to TheHappinessLab with creativity expert, Dr. George Newman, and find out how to avoid common myths about creativity that keep us stuck: https://loom.ly/2JnnWmM
Act as Who You Want, Brain Follows
the secret to becoming who you want to be is just pretending you already are. as a neuroscientist, it's action that rewires the brain. not the other way around
Turn Fatigue Into Action
A neat trick I learned when I felt down or a bit tired was to stop being a little bitch, relocate my nuts and dive into action.
Deliberate Heat Boosts Health, Performance—Sauna Preferred, De‑Frag Effective
30 min key takeaways on deliberate heat exposure for health and performance. And unlike the cold plunge, nobody seems to mind the sauna. Then again, hardly anyone is doing the de-frag protocol… which is brutal but very effective. https://t.co/dFR0wVdSpn
Speak Freely: Ignore Audience Before Commenting
Never change X. Never change... Never look at who you're talking to before you start commenting.
Give Yourself Credit: Effort and Intent Equal Success
Stop judging yourself, so many beating themselves up, did you try as hard as you could? Did you have good intent? Good, you won.
Treat Reading Like Nutrition for Mental Growth
"A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally." –Andrew Carnegie https://t.co/HEk1b9ZSaH
Success Comes From Playing a Rigged Game
Every unsuccessful person I know believes the game is rigged. Every successful person knows the game is rigged and learns how to play. It's cliché as hell, but your mindset is everything.
Prioritize Deep Work, Limit Distractions, Protect Focus
I don’t know who needs this, but: Silence notifications forever. Guard your first 90 minutes. Do one thing to completion. Track attention like money. Let boredom sharpen you. Schedule distraction time. Work offline on purpose. Choose depth daily. Life’s short. Go deep.
Boost Volume & Intensity: 5‑AM Routine Compresses Months
There is only 1 way to solve any problem: • Up the volume • And up the intensity So here's the daily routine I use when I need to compress 3 months of progress into 3 weeks: • 5 AM — Wake up, cold...
Identify Your Bottleneck, Confront Honesty Gaps
A question I ask myself weekly: what’s the biggest bottleneck between me and the next level? Then a harder one: why am I avoiding it? Most problems are honesty problems.
You’re in Control: Reinvent Yourself Starting Tomorrow
Nobody is coming to save you. You are in control. It's all on you. But you are entirely capable of figuring it out. Of squeezing everything you want out of this life. You can wake up tomorrow and completely reinvent...
Challenge Your Comfort Zone with Opposite Action
How often do you go out of your comfort zone? Will you try using opposite action? Let me know in the comments. https://t.co/s4IN8FvP1Y
Kobe Bryant's 10 Rules for Continuous Growth
KOBE BRYANT’S 10 RULES: 1 Get better every day 2 Prove them wrong 3 Work on your weaknesses 4 Execute what you practiced 5 Learn from greatness 6 Learn from wins and losses 7 Practice mindfulness 8 Be ambitious 9 Believe in your team 10 Learn storytelling https://t.co/FyW09L7Hjl
Focus on Your Unique Role, Not Every Task
You have a specific assignment. You're not called to do EVERYTHING. You're called to do YOUR THING. Don't try to be the sun when God made you the moon. Know your role. Walk in it. The Life Audit measures your Purpose Activation score. If it's low,...
Stop Guilt: Balance Creative Work and Home Tasks
If you sometimes feel behind in creative work/commissions AND in home tasks, and feel guilty for both, this is the right place for you. Also, it’s not you, and I can help you fix it 🫶🏻
Your Desired Life Awaits One Small Decision Daily
The life you want is literally on the other side of you making the decision and taking even the tiniest of steps towards it. Consistently Choosing yourself even a little day after day.
Fear of Ordinary Beats Fear of Failure
Admit it: You don’t fear failure. You fear being ordinary. And that fear is driving your pace more than failure ever did.
Discipline vs Compulsion: Jim Collins Redefines Self‑Control
“I always thought of myself as an incredibly disciplined person. I finally came to the conclusion I’m really not very disciplined. I am somewhat, but if you just can’t stop yourself, that’s not discipline. It’s compulsion.” — Jim Collins Listen to my...
Founders Overwhelmed? Overcommitment, Not Poor Time Management
65% of founders report feeling overwhelmed regularly. You’re not bad at time management. You’re overcommitted. Here’s a 5-step fix: https://t.co/NSN09jpDaQ
We Invent Our Own Victim Narratives
At one point in time became so preoccupied with the problems I created for myself (and acting as if someone else created the problem) and then went on to acting like a victim and not showing up well for others...
Embrace Boredom to Reset and Observe Freshly
After an intense three-month sprint my mission as I get on a plane to Austin will be to sit with the boredom. To allow my mind to once again be open to new stimuli, yet to observe from afar rather...
Excellence Demands Long‑term Effort, Intensity, and Consistency
It’s only when you do 1 thing for a long time that you realize how much effort, intensity, and consistency goes into excellence
Write Your Why Three Times to Defuse Anxiety
Whenever upset or anxious, ask “why” at least three times and put the answers down on paper. Describing these doubts in writing reduces their impact twofold. First, it’s often the ambiguous nature of self-doubt that hurts most. Defining and exploring...
Luck Comes From Consistent Hard Work, Not Chance
You don’t get lucky, you: Get up early. Fail and start again. Show up every single day. Ignore your haters. Build even when you don’t want to. Never stop trying. Then one day, magically, you get lucky. You make your luck.
Break Free: Success Shouldn't Feel Like Self‑Imprisonment
Today’s Stoic Lesson: Living without restriction. Too many successful people are prisoners in jails of their own making. Is that what you want? Is that what you're working hard toward?
Discover Your Hidden Potential, No Method Required
“The range of things that you’re encoded to potentially do is incredibly vast, and all you have to do is find one of them. And the way you find that can be really random. It doesn’t matter how it happens....
Prioritize the Vital Few, Sleep Well, Ignore Endless List
The to-do list will always be infinite. Therefore, exactly how far you get down the list isn't critical, but what IS critical is that the few things you actually do, are the most important ones, and done really well. Which requires: 1. Prioritization 2....
Success Starts with Believing a Better Future Is Possible
Successful people start with two core beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
Five Simple Habits That Supercharged My Life
The 5 most impactful habits I've built over the last 5 years: • Walking 15K steps a day • Taking an obsessive amount of notes • Writing for 90 minutes at least 6X/wk • Waking up at 5 AM and going to bed by...
Hard Seasons Become Future Pride and Success
The most taxing life chapters yield the most long-term nostalgia. The harder something is, the more you'll appreciate it later. So reframe whatever you "hate" right now as something you will love & cherish later. For me: Building my $180K/month ghostwriting agency...
Action Beats Complaining: Outgrow Everyone Else
Stop complaining and you will start to outgrow 90% of people. Start taking action and you will outgrow 99%...
AI Turns Creative Threat Into Time‑Saving Partner
Wayne Stiles builds a business around creativity and storytelling. AI could easily feel like a threat in that world. Instead, the AI Business Lab® Mastermind helped him turn it into his most valuable creative partner. He now leverages AI as a...