New Tools, Not School Lessons, Unlock Your Dream Life
Sis, the life you want is not out of reach. It just requires a different set of tools than the ones they gave you in school.
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...
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
Focused Attention Increases Happiness, Study Finds
A landmark study by Harvard revealed that 47% of the time people's mind wander away from what they are doing. The problem is a wandering mind tended to be an unhappy one. Staying fully focused improves happiness. #mindfulness https://t.co/YzgextmKFC
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.
A True System Runs Itself; COD Does Just That
If your system requires constant tweaking, colour coding, and app-hopping… it’s not a system. It’s a hobby. COD is simple by design. Set it up once. Maintain it daily. Let it run quietly while you focus on real work. Start the FREE Beginner’s Guide to COD...
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
Psychedelics Boost Exercise Habits and Stress Resilience
psychedelics appear to facilitate the adoption or maintenance of physical activity habits, increase psychological flexibility, emotional resilience to acute stress, exercise and psychedelics have numerous potential complementary mechanisms https://t.co/gl4YK8bqaE
Triggers Reveal Unprocessed Trauma and Pathways to Healing
Common Trauma Triggers & What They Mean For Healing: Common Trauma Triggers: • Sensory Experiences. • Situational/Environmental. • Relational/Emotional. • Internal Sensations. What Triggers Mean For Healing • Sign Of Unprocessed Trauma. • Opportunities For Growth. • The "Window Of Tolerance.” • Not A Linear Process. Strategies For Managing Triggers: • Identification. •...
Build Everything by Trusting only Your Own Judgment
Care what everyone thinks and you build nothing. Care what some people think and you build slowly. Care what you think and you build everything.
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.
Culture Grows From Actions, Not Stated Values
Culture isn’t what you say you value, it’s how people behave. Values only work when they’re written as actions, not ideals. Reward the behavior, and the culture follows. Video from Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2024 with CRE investor and creator,...
Progress Comes From Those Who Challenge the World
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —George Bernard Shaw https://t.co/tLnauZ8Pdy
Consistency and Quality: The Core Success Formula
Consistency and a focus on quality of work are the name of the game. https://t.co/yOU2aB432q https://t.co/VJ6aBKALLo
Never Tolerate Mediocrity: Standards Match Your Lowest Tolerance
One lesson to add to this: Standards will always fall to the lowest level you tolerate. If you want more consistent output, do not tolerate mediocrity.
Show Empathy to Critics Sharing Their Own Pain
Don’t feel bad for you when they come with the negative content … have compassion and empathy for them… they’re the ones coming to your content and trying to share their “hurt” by hurting you …. https://t.co/xATyK6fV41
True Intelligence Means Changing Your Mind When Proven Wrong
Intelligence is the ability to change your mind when presented with accurate information that contradicts your beliefs.
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...
Quit Early, Stay Past Month Eight, Shift Mindset
What nobody tells you about quitting your job: The first: • 6 months, you'll feel like an imposter • Months 7-12, you'll want to go back • Months 13-18, you'll question everything • Month 19+, you realize it was your mindset Most people quit...
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.
Relax, Breathe, and Ditch the Uptight Squirrel
Hey you, Yep, you. Drop your shoulders. Take a slow breath. It's not that bad. But it will be made worse if you're an uptight little squirrel.
Executives Waste 23 Meeting Hours Weekly; Reclaim Ten
Executives spend 23 hours/week in meetings. 67% are failures. What if you could reclaim 10 of those hours this week? https://t.co/NSN09jpDaQ
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
Heal Adult Emotions by Reconnecting with Your Inner Child
How to reconnect with your inner child: https://t.co/S39Ilwztfu The experiences you had as a child influence your emotional life as an adult. Recognising these dynamics can be healing. New Psyche Guide by psychotherapist Nickan Arzpeyma
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 🫶🏻
Quiet Mind, Joyful Soul: The Gift of Meditation
There is so much noise in the world, we don't realize how much our mind craves some quiet until we actually sit down to meditate. Meditation is the gift we give our mind. It's a break from the noise. The...
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
Removing Instagram Boosts Mood Instantly, Energy Vampire Exposed
Deleted Instagram off my phone last week. It’s WILD how much happier I instantly become, even just not having it on my phone. Its mere presence is a an energy vampire machine (yes I see how ironic that I’m writing...
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...
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.
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....
Swap Judgment for Curiosity for a Day
See how often you judge someone or something as good or bad, right or wrong. Replace judgement with curiosity for one day. https://t.co/NuHi0WGXO6
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.
Stop the “No” Problem, Reclaim Your Time
You don’t have a time problem. You have a “no” problem. When you can’t say no, others run your life. Resentment builds. Relationships suffer. Friction prevails.