Don’t. Just don’t. Don’t ever try to be someone else. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” You can learn from other people, but you must adapt that knowledge to yourself – your mission, your desires,…
Posts published in September 2018
A while back I wrote about the three times I almost died. Some of you thought it was funny – and it was. There’s hardly a better way to approach death than with laughter. But there’s…
I’ve been preaching about having a mission. And a strategy, and principles, and a plan. Only way to lead is by example. Through action. So here goes mine. When I decided to take to Twitter a…
The purpose of this missive is to help you stop fighting the last war. When I was growing up, 2pac was one of my favorite artists. I had all his albums, I loved the music and…
When I was a kid, I was pretty OCD. Jumping over cracks in the pavement. Counting the words, even letters on movie subtitles. Turning doorknobs 3 times, 12 times, 24 times, 17,634 times. How many times…
Mastery of Mind requires deliberate practice like any other skill you learn. Mastery of any field must be firmly rooted in mastery of the fundamentals – the boring, “obvious” and seemingly easy stuff. No trinkets, no…
I’m immensely grateful for all the emails and comments you’ve been sending in. I’d like to share an interesting response I got lately. Before we get into it, let’s be abundantly clear about something. I’m not…
If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you must’ve noticed by now that your mind can be a pretty messy place. Unless, of course, you’re braindead. Or so addicted to your dumbphone and the couch-potato…
The ABC of master salesmanship is commonly misunderstood, by layman and professional alike. Many people harbor the delusion that closing a sale is about cheap tactics, distractions, funnels, filters and who knows what else. That’s how…
The purpose of this missive is to give you a simple framework for organizing your tasks without more digital distractions, and to reduce your decision-making load. Predictable as life can be for me, I still manage…