Use Discipline As a Tool to Build Self-Respect
I do believe that rest and recovery and regeneration are deeply essential. I’ve written a lot about this “cycling” in my book The Everyday Hero Manifesto if you’d like to go deeper. Yet, to lead a soa...
2 Feb 3min
The Greatest Leaders Are Also the Most Curious Students
Science confirms that curiosity keeps the brain young, the heart open, and the spirit vibrant. The moment we stop learning, we begin to fade. Read widely, keep notebooks, travel often, challenge your ...
30 Jan 4min
Emotional Plasticity: Rewiring Your Heartset
Monumental leaders not only work to improve their Mindsets, they do the emotional healing required to purify their Heartsets so that the darker emotions of anger, shame, disappointment, regret, sadnes...
29 Jan 2min
Hustle and Grind Is a Bad Strategy
It’s really really really important to remember that working hard and stress are not evils (at all!). It’s the failure of so many of us to recover and retreat from stress so that we refuel and enjoy ...
28 Jan 2min
The Greater Your Personal Development the Richer Your Life
The best way to make your life amazing is to grow yourself into someone who is truly more amazing. Pick up the book. Find the new mentor. Start the new habit. Take the new risk. Do it today and then ...
27 Jan 2min
Stop the Excuses and Release the Rationalizations
Stop the excuses and release the rationalizations. Sometimes—in the hardest and darkest of times—what helps you survive and then thrive and then fly is putting one foot after another foot, after anoth...
26 Jan 2min
End Every Creative Project Better Than You Started
The harder the project you commit to (and deliver on) the greater the payoff in terms of your personal growth, your professional mastery and your internal self-respect. I’ve created a powerful complet...
23 Jan 4min
Advanced Art Is Always Misunderstood [Before It's Appreciated]
Being laughed at or criticized or misunderstood is the price of leaving the herd and producing your magic. Aside from the mastery on the canvas and the genius of the brushstrokes, what makes a work of...
22 Jan 3min
