It’s funny how every year people decide they’re going to start exercising January 1st. They claim that starting January 1st they won’t eat a single serving of unhealthy food. But almost everyone who begins a new diet on January 1st breaks their New Years resolution. Why? For one, they set goals that are initially too … [Read more…]
The vast majority of times we know what we should do. But often we just don’t do it. And because we don’t like to admit being wrong, we find lame excuses to justify why we don’t do the right things. It’s been said that we tend to get pretty much whatever we settle for. Which … [Read more…]
One of the greatest lessons I’ve ever learned came from a speech by Tony Robbins. In Tony’s speech he really emphasized the importance of the questions we ask ourselves. Our brains create answers for whatever questions we ask them. The difference between successful people and average people, is successful people ask better questions. Successful people … [Read more…]
It’s relatively easy to break habits when you’re certain they’re bad for you. It becomes much more difficult, however, to break habits that are negative ninety-nine percent of the time, but occasionally produce positive results. For example, many people are addicted to Reddit. For every hundred articles you read there, ninety-nine may be a waste … [Read more…]
Most companies over promise and under deliver. It’s not uncommon for a company claiming to have the world’s best customer service to take 2 weeks to answer their emails. In my own life I recently promised my youtube subscribers I’d have my latest video up by Friday. I figured it was a reasonable estimate, but … [Read more…]
The obvious solution to getting more work done is working longer hours. Simply working more hours, however, usually isn’t the best solution. It’s been said the average employee only spends 25% of their time doing productive work. In a 40 hour week that amounts to about 10 hours of productive work. If an employee was … [Read more…]
If a baseball player decided to wait until they got a perfect pitch to swing, they’d never swing. They’d strike out. Every single time. It sounds like common sense, but most people live their lives in the exact same fashion. They wait for the perfect opportunity. An opportunity with no chance of failure. But they’ll … [Read more…]
When filming juggling montages I have a personal policy of never spending longer than five minutes on a given trick. Spending longer than that is a poor use of practice time, and I feel that if I can’t get a trick within five minutes I have no business showing that trick off to the world … [Read more…]
Trying to force my beliefs on others is a huge issue I’ve struggled with as I’ve worked on my personal development over the last couple years. For example, when I first quit watching television I would often hear people talking about the latest episode of a reality show and feel compelled to tell them why … [Read more…]
I’ve never been a big fan of qualifiers. I can see how they could be used as marketing ploys, but the real reason most people use them is they just aren’t willing to put in the work needed to be the best at their craft. Nobody tries to be the best male, Hispanic, salsa dancing, … [Read more…]