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The 8 Ways to Try Something New (and 1 Even Better Option)
Consider one of these eight different ways to try something new to spice up your stale life. Or maybe try something even better…
What Makes a Good Gift? If It Satisfies One of These Four Needs
A summary of the research on what makes a good gift, plus the four things everyone can’t get enough of that will satisfy those criteria.
The Undebatable Benefits of Conflict
Maybe you’ll agree to disagree more often after considering these 9 benefits of conflict.
What’s It Like Being a Dad? Objectively Worse
When people ask me, “What’s it like being a dad?” I normally lie. But if you really want the truth, here it is.
How to Selflessly and Successfully Ask for Help
These tips on how to ask others for help will make you want to do it more and the people you ask glad you did.
How Even You and I Can Be (Slightly) More Charismatic
Six steps and a bunch of tips and tricks from The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane, we can practice to be more charismatic.
Expert Tricks and Tactics for Being a Better Active Listener
My favorite tips and tricks on how to be a better active listener that I learned from reading You’re Not Listening, by Kate Murphy.
The Personal Strategic Plan Inspired By a Harvard Business Legend
This five-step personal strategic planning exercise applies best practices from the business world to your life.
What You Learn if You Stop Listening to Podcasts
The lessons I learned when I stopped listening to podcasts for a month.
Quitters Often Prosper: 19 Things To Quit Doing
Things to quit doing that have disproven the saying, “Quitters never prosper.”
8 Clues to Follow for Finding Your Purpose in Life
These eight questions will help you uncover clues for getting closer to finding your purpose in life.
How Your Balance of Dopamine vs. Here and Now Molecules Defines You
A summary of the book, The Molecule of More, on how to use a better understanding of dopamine to and H&N molecules to enjoy life more.
How to Find the Best Measure for Success in Your Life
If you want to make better life decisions, try answering this seemingly simply question, “What does ‘better’ mean to me?”
How to Stop Justifying Yourself and Start Living in Reality
Lying to yourself and making excuses turns you into an easily-offended, deluded drain on society. Here’s how to stop.
Self-Justification: Examples of the 4-Step Psychological Vortex
Self-justification is your over-protective mother of an ego coddling your feeble, fragile identity. Here’s how it works, with examples.
How to Flourish With a “Garden” of Daily Habits
It takes vision, focus, symbiosis, prevention, hard work, persistence, and patience to develop successful daily habits.
Sprint Training: Why and How You Should Start Doing It
Whatever your age, incorporating sprint training into your fitness routine will help you stay healthy and spry. Here’s how.
If You Can’t Find a Job You Love, Ask Yourself These Questions
Try asking yourself this 4-part framework’s series of questions to narrow down your career choices and potentially find a job you love.
How to Find Your False Growth Mindsets and Un-Fix Them
A quick quiz, cheat sheet, and refresher on how to separate a false growth mindset from a real one and be less fixed-minded.
How to Be Smart With Your Money: 5 Wise Questions From an Expert
You don’t have to be smart to be smart with your money. You just have to be well-behaved. 5 lessons from The Psychology of Money.
Why You Should Be Living Your Own Unconventional Life
An unconventional life is one not bound by what is usual or the way most people do things. It’s up to you.
The Inner Game of Tennis’ Strategies for Playing Out of Your Mind
Summary of the strategies I learned from Timothy Gallwey’s book, The Inner Game of Tennis, to silence my mind and get better faster.
5 Practices You Urgently Need to Learn to Be More Patient
There are no quick fixes for learning how to be more patient, but these questions might help get you started.
How to Write an Impactful Letter to Your Future Self in 6 Steps
A 6-step approach, with plenty of brain-sparking ideas, for writing a letter to your future self that you’ll be grateful you spent your time on.
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