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Foundations of Awareness

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…

Feeding the monster

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…

Antifragility of the Mind

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…

Always Be Closing

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 three-list system

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…

Making days count

The purpose of this missive is to help you raise your awareness of your moods and make the best of your time every day. There are three archetypes of the wasted day: Some days you wake…

The one rule to rule them all

The purpose of this missive is to help you improve your diet without becoming a nutrition expert or reading any books. I have been off artificial sweeteners for the past two weeks. Completely unintentionally, but consistently.…

Chuck of the damned

It was 1998 and Chuck Palahniuk’s father kept on asking him for an introduction to Wynona Rider. Obviously, this was before Chuck’s dad was murdered. Chuck went on thinking: “I’m not going to introduce my father…

Engineering of the Mind

Self-improvement doesn’t work out for most people. Because they don’t know how actions translate into results that feed more forward action. Actions can begin with a tiny little shift in attitude. If you will just stop…