Think about your life up to this point and ask yourself: “what memories do I miss the most?”

For me, the memories that come to surface immediately are the times when I went hiking, or the times I spent with friends and family — often laughing together. 

In the middle...

Consider these two scenarios: 

In one scenario, you spend the majority of an 80-hour work week sending e-mails, accepting every meeting invite that comes your way, and sitting on said meetings. 

Is this exhausting and hard work? 

Sure. 

But was this best way to advance your most...

Every so often, you’re going to have a bad day.

Everyone does. 

A day where you’re feeling exceptionally tired, 

a day where your mind doesn’t feel like it’s totally there, 

a day where you it feels like you’re having to face more problems than usual, 

a day...

Bay Area artist FNNCH makes a living selling drawings of honey bears & La Croix cans. 

Alissa, whose instagram handle is friedriceart, makes a living making art out of — you guessed it — rice. 

Ben Thompson, of Stratechery, makes a living by sharing his analyses of the strategy...

“By simply shifting my focus to another person, which is what compassion does, my own pain was much less intense. This is how compassion works even at the physical level.” — The 14th Dalai Lama, The Book of JoyCaring for others — being compassionate — is one of the most...

A machine is a set of mechanisms that allow for something to work effectively and efficiently.

Every successful operation needs a good machine long-term:

 
A machine to ensure that you’re at the right meetings with the right people do accomplish the work you set out to do. (mechanisms: a clearly defined...

There’s the feeling that you’re starting something, and then there’s actually starting something.

The difference is important. 

Scheduling a meeting to talk about doing something isn’t starting. 

Thinking about doing something isn’t starting. 

Here’s a rule of thumb: if the work only exists in your mind, you have...

“To succeed, always remember that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” — Brendon Burchard, High Performance HabitsThere’s a lot of areas of work that you’re interested, and then there’s the main thing — the one, non-negotiable area of work that you are committed to...

At any given moment, there’s probably at least 100 different things worth doing, but you can’t do all of them. 

And if you try to do them all, you end up accomplishing nothing despite putting in what feels like a lot of hard work. 

The only path forward for...

“Just as athletes do specific things to get themselves into “the zone,” high performers consciously cultivate joy.” — Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits A study done by researchers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego found that when someone become happy, the people around them have a...