Don’t. Just don’t. Don’t ever try to be someone else. You can learn from other people, but you must adapt that knowledge to yourself – your mission, your desires, your objectives. Now, this is not some…
Posts published in September 2018
Note: The links in this missive are deprecated and contributions are closed. A while back I wrote about the three times I almost died. Some of you thought it was funny – and it was. 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…
Growing up, 2pac was one of my favorite artists. I had all his albums. I loved the music and I deeply appreciated his savvy managing to balance his artist hustle and artistic authenticity. What he produced…
When I was I kid I was pretty OCD. Turning doorknobs 3 times, 12 times, 24 times, 17,634 times. Jumping over cracks in the pavement. Counting the words and letters on movie subtitles. 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…
Predictable as life can be for me, I still manage to surprise myself at times. A couple of days last week brought one of those surprises. I didn’t imagine myself capable of engineering a gut-wrenching experience…