When striving to achieve our goals, we often face obstacles. One of the least common yet most significant barriers is the influence of others. While it’s easy to blame people around us, they are rarely the primary reason for our setbacks. Understanding this helps us recognize that the power to grow lies within us, not Continue Reading
Embracing Your Influence: How to Truly Make a Difference
Making a difference in the world often hinges on the extent of your influence, and the beauty of this influence is that it’s within your control. Your ability to make an impact grows as you build and nurture relationships, enhance your team, and expand your knowledge and generosity. The crucial question, however, is whether you’re Continue Reading
Embracing the Challenge: Finding Good in Life’s Hardships
In my 40+ years of life, 23 of which I’ve navigated independently, I’ve learned a vital truth: life gets hard. This journey often becomes increasingly challenging, and amidst these difficulties, there’s an undeniable presence of bad. However, it’s crucial to recognize that hard doesn’t always equate to bad; it simply means challenging. Consider the arduous Continue Reading
Taking the right step forward
Life presents us with numerous choices, often leading to confusion about the path we should take. This applies whether we are striving toward our goals or navigating the routines of our daily lives, right from the moment we decide when to wake up. It begs the question: What constitutes the right choice or step for Continue Reading
Love yourself, then your life, then you can accept love from others
This isn’t about romance, it can be for some, but this is instead about creating the most happiness in your life. Love is the means — it is the single factor for all successful entrepreneurs, writers, and the most influential people in our history. Love is how we pull ourselves out of depression, toxic relationships, bad households, Continue Reading
How Elon Musk’s view on value switched me to positive success
What is the value of your business, project, and efforts? How do you define it? Note — I am not asking how the world defines it. This isn’t their company, their life, or their blood sweat and tears being pulled from your life force. Their opinions don’t matter here. HOW do you define the value of your work? Is Continue Reading
How your judging people is killing your relationships and team’s success
Judgement is a poison. It eliminates the frankness and vulnerability gained through honest discussion. It hides problems, and is the source of much grief in your personal relationships. Businesses and product launches fail because you were afraid ‘of what other people would think/say’. Relationships and love are won and lost with the fear of judgement. Continue Reading
Are you trusting your gut?
How often have I walked into a situation / meeting / relationship / room and didn’t act on my gut? Too often. In fact, as I become aware of how our intuition plays a role in our happiness and impact — the more I am leaning towards acting on my gut. You see — the greatest regret of every Continue Reading
2020 is the greatest year of your life
2020 is the worst year; 2020 is a disaster The statements above are a lie. 2020 is what it is, and how you and I live in the moments is the true judge of the year. This perspective is one I have shared emphatically with many who were in pain, depressed, and having experienced the Continue Reading
What is your life’s motivating purpose?
Purpose provides motivation. You and I hear it all the time applied to business. We apply it to mission statements and sometimes to athletes — “be the greatest boxer in the world!” Yet, I don’t see it applied personally enough. In fact, the only people I see with a clear purpose are those who are over indexing Continue Reading