After another unexpected and seemingly unforced hiatus, I'm back. This week, I will detail how my current bout with severe depression took me off my game months ago and how I had to evaluate the situation to improve. I'm on the path to doing 'better' now, but not entirely out of the woods yet.
Inspired by a recent video produced by Mark Manson (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck), I explain why personal and development is flush with books on the subject that are all recycled ideas, why we worship these books, and what you need to start doing now to justify all the books you already own (and the ones in your queue to buy next). You can watch Manson's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQB3viVFhPA&t=310s
There is a universal belief in personal development that you should limit your time spent with the 'wrong' people. This episode will help you gauge who those people are and if you could be one of those people.
I have used this five-point plan to set goals for over a decade, and I want to take this week's podcast time to share it with you: -Take a calendar, and make a realistic sketch of your available free time and when it exists. -Download all your hopes and dreams. No matter how outlandish and seemingly impossible, write it down (alongside the more realistic ones) if you'd like it to happen. -Review and rate the goals on your list. Eliminate the goals you know are impossible and those you know you h...
There is pressure for good tidings and cheer to be the familiar feeling for all during the Christmas season. The reality is many are not feeling all that jolly. Some, in fact, are feeling a good level of pain right now. Guess what? That is valid, but not an excuse to bring others down.
It is cliché in the world of personal develop that books are important to growth. This episode will go over some of the benefits of reading and offers some suggestions to where you can find your books. If you are interested in the Blinkist app, visit https://blinkist.o6eiov.net/c/2043256/707940/10732
This message is another way to state, ‘guard your free time wisely.’ It sounds like simple advice you’ve heard far too often, but give it a listen anyway.
Getting feedback is excellent. But the feedback you are getting is probably not very. Here is what you do to manage all the feedback you receive, for good or for ill.
Learning skills when you are unsure of the ‘proper’ steps to follow is an asset since you don’t know what you don’t know, and you don’t fear doing the things that others have cast off as the wrong things to do.
We as humans deal with too many daily issues that can not be simply resolved by throwing wads of cash at them. And then there are issues when throwing cash at them is the exact fix needed.
Every new person you meet is has lived a story they probably would like to tell, so be open at the beginning of the new possible relationship. But just like a terrible book or a boring streaming TV series, you are free to walk away if it is not working.
You will spend more hours in your lifetime not wanting to complete tasks then you will energized to get things done. What do you do to will yourself to a motivated state when you just don't have the energy to be motivated.
The point of personal development is to bulid yourself for a possible future. That means looking towards a possible future you and asking the right questions to get you as close to there as possible.
Just in time for all the gatherings of families and friends for the holiday season, here are five tips for managing yourself to help survive those gatherings.
There will be plenty of hard choices to make and hard times to live through that will need you to be a hard charger. But if not, you don’t always have to be.
Will Smith is a very entertaining person becoming more polarizing as he shares more personal life details. It was two competing personal projects that led to a public proclamation, a very profound one that you may have heard before but may get a boost from hearing it from someone else. You will hear me break down the proclamation and share how it has directly affected me.
I describe myself as ‘boring on purpose.’ I do not believe I am a boring person, and I am rarely in a situation where I am bored. But I will choose a dull and eventful day that ends in peace over a day of excitement that comes with unnecessary drama.
You come to the point where you are asking yourself, “Is it time to quit?” You probably already know the answer t that question, but this episode will help you come to terms with whatever the ultimate answer turns out to be.
All you need is a little knowledge, a person to coach, and a synced schedule, and you have as much right to call yourself a coach as anyone else, including me.
Per Wikipedia, ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ is the idea that all people on average are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. It seems impossible but real (mostly), and you can and should use this to your advantage.
It is great to revisit the best advice you receive, and some of the best advice I have ever received has dealt with clutter, sometimes physical, sometimes mental, and more often than not, a combination of both. And the advice? Clear the clutter.
Leader are readers. Readers are leaders. How ever you have heard it, those three words ring true. If you want to prove your agility to lead, you have to be read up. And not just with traditionally bound books.
If you claim to want to reach some elite goal, you have to be ready to take out someone who is already in range to achieve the same goal.
Never put your full faith in any man (or woman for that matter). Humans are human after all. Which means fallible and destined to fail you eventually.
Perseverance is defined as persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Two keys to perseverance are the reasons behind why you should keep going and distance (real or perceived) to where it is you want to go.
Circumstances beyond my control led me to stop producing this podcast, again. As it happens, circumstances have changed, and opened a window to allow me back in to produce this podcast.
Last week I had an extremely rough week at work, but a particular routine was interrupted that almost had me drop an especially important streak. As you work to progress in life and career, you cannot be scared to set a routine. But you also need to prepare for as many distractions as you can possibly plan for.
There is power in a goof mentor-mentee relationship. But the power is not inherent in the mentor just by their existence.
Any time you are ready to take a stab at personal improvement by setting a new goal to achieve, you can use this simple five-step goal planning system I use myself.
