Build Novelty Into Your Days

You were born with a gift. And science has confirmed it. It’s the ability of your brain to grow and adapt to new situations, so you learn new skills. It’s called neuroplasticity. And it works like a charm. …wish to get up at 5am so you have an hour of quiet to build yourself strong? …seek to master a craft or gain expertise in an art? …driven to overcome a fear or beat a worry? The brain’s native ability to grow and rise with steady, incremental practice will ser...

20 Juni 20232min

Rise at dawn. This regime will multiply your productivity massively yet—ironically—also give you more time later in the day for rest. Read The 5AM Club (currently one of the bestselling books on the planet) to learn how the pros do it. And please remember - just because you failed to find victory around a new habit yesterday doesn’t mean you can’t do it today. You’re one day more experienced! And the universe has seen fit to grant you the good fortune of a fresh day. This is, esse...

19 Juni 20232min

Around Christmas of 1980, my family took a trip to Los Angeles. As we drove along a street, I noticed a man driving a Rolls Royce, waving to all the people honking. He drove slowly. He looked graceful. Long story short, we drove up alongside him in our little rental car (seriously) and asked for a photo. He pointed to a side street. And posed for photos with us with the utmost of patience. Muhammad Ali taught me so much about humility that day. And that the strongest can be the kindest. I wri...

16 Juni 20236min

I do believe in karma. I’ve seen that life has an enormously fair accounting system. Good things happen to people who do good things. And every action generates a corresponding consequence. The billionaires and industry titans I mention mostly have one trait in common: they are radically generous... ...Because they understand that generosity breeds prosperity. And helping as many people isn’t just a gift for those people. It’s a reward for yourself. If you’d like to learn the tools, ha...

15 Juni 20232min

Sure we’re wise enough to know that worldly success takes hard work, exquisite perseverance, relentless innovation and the steady delivery of awesome value to many. Yet too many good people suffer intensely when they see others doing well. …it makes them feel like they are not enough. …it causes them to disregard all they have done, overcome and accomplished. …it excites feelings of jealousy and frustration and apathy. If you seek happiness and peacefulness you must f...

14 Juni 20232min

I once watched a fascinating interview of Jony Ive, the former design leader at Apple who is also known as Steve Jobs' closest working partner. As I observed the conversation, I discovered a leadership insight that I'd never heard before... While Steve was clearly intelligent, focused and relentless, his greatest talent just might have been his acute comfort in his own skin. ...And his “unmessable with” faith in the glory of his mission. His vision and the product mattered more to him...

13 Juni 20232min

The things you schedule are the things you’ll get done. Simple insight, yes. Game-changing if you live it. [The willpower researchers say that “pre-commitment strategies” like goal-setting work superbly in making change that endures]. So, early every Sunday morning set a discipline to build out your ideal week ahead. Add your workout blocks and your family meals. Write in your creative segments and record your times for team meetings. Get each of our key pursuits into the plan. Then lock an...

12 Juni 20233min

The marketplace always rewards scarcity. What I mean by this is that when you can do what very few do, you will receive the rewards very few will receive. I’m also suggesting that you create your own economy, working in a “separate orbit” of sorts. Ignore the negative information asking for your attention and insulate yourself in a bubble of sorts, where you live your vision, upgrade your skills daily and make the life you want—no matter what anyone else is doing. You have agency. You...

9 Juni 20236min