Being lazy is easy. It’s fun to sit around and relax. On the flip-side, routines are hard. Deciding to commit to something new, to change your life is hard. None of this is simple. No one ever said it would be. Lazy – Habits The other day someone commented how I “like routines.” That struck …
Did your New Year’s Resolution fail? Now that it’s almost February, have you already quit? I bet you have. You dummy. You’ve become a statistic, but it’s not your fault. New Year’s Resolutions always fail. Resolution Fail – Mine I failed too. I couldn’t manage to keep my Resolution. But my Resolution was this: “To …
You should always be kind. You never know who you’ll help. There’s a bike trail in Florida where everyone is rude. No one says hi to each other or waves. The daily troubles of the world have followed these people to the path, where they continue to fight and scratch their way along. It’s a …
Your gift isn’t special. Newsflash: No one else is better than you. Everyone is exactly equal. No one has any special gift or talent that you can’t get too. So stop lying to yourself, thinking you can’t be successful. Because you can. And I’ll show you how. Your Gift – Books Growing up, I looked …
Every athlete is familiar with the phrase “Coach Watching.” It’s when the coach is watching you, you act like a superstar. But when the coach turns his back, you suddenly slack off. Sometimes you just want to coast through life without putting in any effort. Coach Watching – Soccer I played soccer in high school. …
Fear at work is a real thing. When I interned for Disney, they trained me to do a lot of strange and unnatural things. One of them was to say, “Come back again and see us real soon.” Come again? What does that even mean? As a cashier, the managers would grade us on a …
Hard tasks are difficult. Our jobs are tough. Our bosses can be overly demanding. We work long hours and are exhausted at the end of the day. Sometimes there are things we don’t want to do. So how are you supposed to handle hard tasks – when there’s something you don’t want to do? Hard …
It’s easy to feel amazing every day. But it takes effort. For me, I’ve relied on these lifesaving tools – the things I need when life feels impossible. And so you’re aware, this post is going to be a bunch of quotes and wisdom from old men. If you don’t like catch-phrases and metaphors, move …
New jobs are hard. We all like to stay in our comfort zone, in the familiar, rather than venture into the harsh unknown. What if we try something new and fail? How should we respond? Should we get down on ourselves and never try again? New Jobs – A Lot I’ve had lots of jobs. …
The media lies. Everything you see is a lie. TV, movies, the internet is full of liars. Everyone is trying to sell you something. They’re trying to make money off you, preying off an insecurity, and hoping you’ll throw money away to fix the problem – the same “fake problem” they’ve convinced you, you have. …