Choosing Your Life’s Work

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This guest post by Samy Felice discusses the ideal perspective of work. What’s the priority? What do we often prioritize instead? Find out below!

The soup of talent that covers the planet makes our world function beautifully. From athletes, to writers, and so much more, people make the world go ’round.

With that said, we’re inundated with information about celebrities and top performers, and the benefits of a great income. Supercars are revered. We lust for palaces. Most people dream of having a great lifestyle and fulfilling all their material desires. Money opens the door to many exciting possibilities, but should it be our primary focus?Read More

Why Mini Habits Is the Greatest Personal Development Strategy Ever

Tremendous forest fires have started from a flame this small, just as tremendous accomplishments have begun from one small decision to take one small initial step.

Mini habits start small, but they don’t stop there!

Yeah, it’s a bold claim, but it’s true. I’ve explained the power of mini habits in various ways on this blog and in the book itself, but this is going to be the clearest, most precise explanation yet of why this is the greatest personal development strategy in existence.

Part 1: The Strategy Equation

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Your strategies determine whether you experience success or failure, whether you win or lose, and whether you get real results or continue wishing for them. Most people don’t know or understand the basic strategy equation. Society overemphasizes one part of the equation so much that we’re typically blinded to the other part. Here’s the equation.Read More

How To Stop Doubt From Hijacking Your Dreams

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photo by Andrew Amistad

This guest post is by Blake Powell from bulletproofwriters.com. He gives us practical tip to overcome the doubt we all face at times.

I held my hands over my head and sighed as the words blurred together.

The blinking cursor on the screen in front of me seemed to be taunting my progress, asking me if I could really pull this off. I felt like I’d lost touch with the characters I created and I didn’t even know where I was taking the story anymore. My mind was flooded with doubts and I was tired, tired of it all and ready to give up. Nothing made sense anymore.Read More

3 Strategies to Cut Through Overwhelm Without Losing Your Mind

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This guest post is by Jamila, who gives a simple, straightforward, and systematic way to move past overwhelm. It’s great to be reminded of processes like this. Add it to your arsenal!

There’s nothing that saps away motivation faster than the feeling of being overwhelmed. I can say this for a fact because I get overwhelmed like 50% of the time. The typical advice to start somewhere doesn’t always do it for me because most times, it isn’t so much about getting started as it is about knowing what I need to get started on.Read More

Write Your Tombstone to Solidify Your Identity

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That’s morbid, I know.

But I’m only [your age here] years old!

Still… don’t discard this dark idea like a salmon bone. Rather, consider this how this imaginative experiment can solidify your identity!

Imagine This…

You’ve entered an imaginary world in another dimension. In your pink bathrobeRead More