A mental breakdown is when you realize that you’re not who you thought you were. It is psychological death to a part of your character and leaves you feeling vulnerable and uncertain about your identity and your place in the world. Breakdowns are extremely important times in your life because it is one of the…
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Conflicting Priorities
When deciding what’s important in your life, things don’t always align perfectly. For example you may be very career focused but also have a family that you care for and make time for. From the standpoint of focusing on your career, it’d be easier if you didn’t have to spend the time with your family….
So you decided to be an entrepreneur, what now?
There’s a lot of appeal in starting your own business. You make the decisions, you set the schedule, you decide how hard to work and are directly compensated for that. When I quit my Wall Street job, I was determined to go out in the world, find my true calling, and never work a corporate…
Religious Truths
I’m not a particularly religious person. I grew up going to church but like many other young people, when my parents stopped making me go, I stopped going. Quite frankly I never paid much attention to the sermons and I wasn’t interested in the stories in the Bible, they seemed a little ridiculous. With that…
Employer / Employee Dilemma
Have you ever busted your ass at work and finished everything you had to do early? You had some non-work things you wanted to focus on or leave work all together. It doesn’t happen that way does it? When you work really hard and get all your stuff done, what are you rewarded with? That’s…
5 Steps to Break Your Phone Addiction
Smart phones = dumb people Modern smart phones and really aren’t phones anymore, they’re pocket computers that happen to be capable of calls and texts. Carrying a pocket computer can certainly be a powerful thing. Just today I was running late to catch a flight and was able to check in online and download my…
Single Family Units vs. Co-Housing
The single family-housing unit has always struck me as strange. The housing infrastructure in the United States is based off the idea of “self-containment”. We have kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, entertainment rooms, storage rooms, laundry rooms, etc. All our houses are self-contained so outside of getting food, you basically never have to leave. And consequently that’s…
How To Find Your Passion
Remember the map on Real Time Strategy video games? When you started the game, most of the world was blacked out on the map until you explored it. That’s a lot how life is. The area that you can see is your comfort zone and outside that area is dark and mysterious. But if you…
Earl Nightingale – The Strangest Secret
Earl Nightingale. That’s a name most people aren’t familiar with. I can’t remember how I found him, but a couple times a year I re-listen to his tape called “The Strangest Secret”. It’s a bit cheesy, but it always gets me fired up. I was listening to it today and was struck by the fact…
Casino vs Gambler – Personality Type Comparison
Our habits are what make us. I’ve talked about this before, and I’ll keep talking about it. It’s just so damn important to internalize it. Your life truly is the culmination of all your habits to this point. So play like the casino. Look, casinos know how much money they’ll make over a long…