Building Your Skills Creating value is a skill. Delivering value is a skill too. Don’t expect to master either of these skills right out of the gate. It takes practice and effort to become competent. It takes even more practice to develop expertise. There’s no entitlement here, so get that silly notion out of your [...]
My philosophy of financial abundance is fairly simple. I focus on two specific areas. The first area is creating social value. “Social value” is something that other people consider worthwhile. If I consider it worthwhile, but no one else does, I can still do it, but I wouldn’t expect it to have much impact on [...]
A common productivity tip is to plan each day in advance, preferably the night before. But how exactly do you do this? How do you know which items to put on your next day’s to-do list? If you aren’t careful, self-delusion can creep into your planning process. It’s tempting to put items on your task [...]
Embracing Community There is no practical way to work on your personal growth in isolation. You can’t simply cocoon yourself in your lair, go to work on yourself for several weeks, and expect to emerge stronger. That is a recipe for stagnation. In order to grow, it’s essential to acknowledge that you need other people. [...]
Making the Shift Making the shift to a new level of being is hard. Even when you know what to do — or think you do — it’s still very challenging. Having seen lots of people make these shifts over a period of years, one thing is clear. People rarely succeed without help. That’s been [...]
Disconnection The second growth killer is disconnection. This is when you check out from some part of your life and lose sight of your passion, dreams, and desires. Disconnection leads to hopelessness. If you want to keep growing, it’s your responsibility to stay plugged in to what’s going on in your life. And especially you [...]
Avoiding the Growth-Killing Demons So how do you discover — and begin to apply — effective patterns of growth? I’ll share several pieces of advice to help you accomplish this… ways you can accelerate your personal growth tremendously. Perhaps the best way to share these ideas is to say that you need to tackle — [...]
Symptoms vs. Causes But here’s the deal — and it’s a BIG deal. These problems are really just symptoms — important symptoms mind you — but symptoms nonetheless. The real issues go much deeper. Most of the field of personal growth is focused on tactical solutions. They will treat the symptoms only. But they never [...]
An Unfair Advantage I’m not claiming to have superior intelligence to you. But it’s a virtual certainty that I have superior experience when it comes to helping people achieve breakthroughs in their personal growth. I don’t have a regular job. I have no boss telling me what to do. Every year I spend the bulk [...]
Getting stuck is a huge problem with respect to personal growth. It’s also incredibly common. People don’t try to get stuck — but somehow it just happens. No one sets out to get stuck for years in a job they don’t really like. No one sets out to get stuck in a bad financial situation, [...]
