The world is a maddening place. It's imperfect. Full of injustice and unfairness. Politics polarize. Protests seem ineffective. The Focus Problem What you focus on expands. The news poisons us with fear rather than information. Social media is a black hole. No one listens. No one admits they're wrong. On the flip side, we have keyboard [...]
The first step in fixing a thing is to know what a thing is. Over the years, I’ve done countless psychological tests to try and figure out who and what I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, where I am awesome and where I fall down. Sometimes these give me a map to improvement and sometimes if [...]
Thirty days ago I wanted to re-develop a writing habit. Read on if you want my process for doing just that, From how I come up with ideas all the way to publishing them. By the time you finish reading this, you will know exactly step by step how I go about it. I can't spell, [...]
I am the worst kind of communicator, well in my natural state... You see there are four levels of communication and more often than not I default to the lowest level. In the novel "The Wise Man's Fear" one of the characters suggests that it is stupid to say 10 words when one word will do. [...]
There is an incredibly destructive disease that puts fear into the heart of man... What is this fear I hear you ask? I will get to that in just one second. Before I do I want to ask you a question... How many ideas do you have for changing your future for the better? If you [...]
Exponential technologies are coming (AI, Robots, Rocketry, Gene-editing etc) they are going to change the world! You have 3 options. Get run over by watching it happen. Try and Keep up. Future-Proof Yourself. It is about option 3 we are going to discuss. Right now we are in what Peter Diamandis calls "The deceptive [...]
You have your Vision for the future but now what? Everyone and their uncle will tell you that you should have a vision. In fact, without a vision people perish, that's what is said in the good book. Oh, and Steve Jobs was a visionary so it must be a good idea. Look this is not [...]
Procrastination stopped me from writing this... Oh, hold on a second!!! It has been said that perfectionism is procrastination disguised as quality control. I like that idea. The idea that I Don't/Won't do something until it's perfect. Why would I want to subject anyone to less than my best? That is a perfectly reasonable [...]
Follow your passion and you will never work a day in your life...Hogwash, Total and utter Hogwash! There are many problems I have with the idea of following your passion least of all is finding your passion in the first place. Look around the world and you will see this one deniable fact. Passion is [...]
The more dynamic your life is the more complex your decisions, and the larger the costs and consequences of bad choices. In this short article, I will give you a surefire way to always make the right decision. This piece is for anyone in any situation where you reach a crossroads or a fork in [...]
