From quitting bad habits to pushing through your blocks and reading a book a week, this blog has helped people like you achieve more personal and professional success, one step at a time.
Subscribe for free below and see why so many have done the same.
Just make this annoying thing go away.
Subscribe via email:
Just make this annoying thing go away.
Just finished a session with the Globe and Mail earlier today. The title was “Using the Web to Enhance Your Brand.” I don’t know that much about branding but the session was pretty awesome to do. To all of you that are joining from G&M.com, hello and thanks for checking me out. I have a [...]
Hype dies. The channel does not. The problem with your 15 minutes is that it will end. Especially if you’re renting other people’s attention, it won’t last forever. You’ll become a has-been very quickly if this is all you do. For a long time, I didn’t blog or podcast very much. I just worked on [...]
Sometimes you come across a challenge that is very difficult for you to live with. It could be a disability, a problem with your spouse, or any number of complicated affairs that happen to everyone, all throughout life. The natural answer to this question is “Why me? I have enough problems, why this right now?” [...]
When I started to lose my hearing, I freaked out a lot. I quit a lot of groups I went to– public speaking groups, capoeira, a lot of other stuff– because I wasn’t hearing what was going on properly anymore. Either that, or they were really loud, and I was afraid of hurting my ears [...]
As a result of hearing loss that I’ve developed over the years, there are a few things missing from my world that are likely present in yours. What are they? First, here’s what do I have that you do not: A loud, high-pitch ringing that is unceasing. I hear it 24 hours a day, without [...]
Check next time you’re traveling. You’ll notice every staircase, anywhere in the world, looks exactly the same. Stand at the top. What do you see? Parts of the staircase are worn away, in two rows, going from the top to the bottom. This is because every person coming in and out drags their feet in [...]
Ok, this is being spread around, so I need to canonize it. The official answer to anyone who tells you that they have a blog is (say it with me now): “Oh, so what do you complain about?” Man, there are so many good reasons to say this. Let’s name a few to make sure [...]
It’s taken me a long time to figure it out, but I realize now that I adore reading. For over 2 years now, I’ve been attempting to read a book every week. This year, for the first time, I’m going to succeed. I’m only now realizing what a tremendous impact a ton of reading has [...]
I give change to pretty much everyone that asks for it on the street. This includes street performers. It’s a habit I’ve developed since briefly working for Homeless Nation, an organization that has gotten a lot of accolades over the years for its work in Canadian cities on behalf of their homeless population. Today though, [...]
God, this makes me mad. So, there is this massive selection bias that happens amongst some influencers on the web where they feel that good content will be found on its own. Why do they feel this? The same reason rich people think they deserve their wealth, of course; if they’re on top, they feel [...]
I think the trick to building habits is to do them early in the day. Stacking habits works early in the morning– shower, shave, floss, etc– because they can be easily strung together. The fact that they all happen around the house makes it easier, too. So I’ve been practicing adding activities into my morning [...]
Children are naturally adaptable because that is how humans are born– flexible and curious. As we grow up though, we become inflexible and rigid in thought. Why isn’t it the opposite? Here’s my thinking: We should provide a training regimen to keep our minds flexible. It’ll make us better business people and human beings, and [...]
You know, we didn’t always add strangers on Twitter or Facebook. After all, that isn’t the way most people communicate. There’s always a little bit of apprehension when you join a new thing, but when we saw that this was the way powerful, alpha users started behaving (Scoble, etc), we started copying them. This is [...]
Chris, Mitch and I have been thinking about how we can bring our books to more audiences. We considered doing a tour– New York, Chicago, San Francisco, etc, but those were cities we visited all the time anyway. We also remembered that a lot of you had asked if we could come see you locally, [...]
The more I consider gatejumping, which we discuss in Trust Agents, the more compelling I find the idea. Gatejumpers, for the record, are those who skip past useless middle steps (ie, gates) to get to their goals faster. The reason I’m so excited about a possible Apple tablet, for example, is because a big player [...]
A single tip today, something really easy for you to remember. There are conferences happening all the time in this space– special events that cause people to be out of their element, rushing around for whole days, and not paying attention to their usual stuff (like email, Twitter, etc.) I just got an email saying [...]
I love how when we see other people’s stories, we make excuses for them about how easy it was. What’s hilarious about this is that, for ourselves, we don’t look at the advantages– just the obstacles. “Oh, but it was easy for him, because X, Y, and Z,” we say. “You and I don’t have [...]
Maybe even yours. When someone’s birthday comes up, it’s so easy to cop out and not come up with much to do for them. We’re all busy and we all have a lot of work to do, don’t we? We can’t remember everything. For a long time I really copped out about this. I didn’t [...]
Let’s see, where was I with this? The Story By the time I was 24, I had a few tattoos and had stretched my ears. I was starting to spend a lot of time on websites dedicated to piercing, tattooing, etc where I saw people starting to get heavier and bigger work. I was also [...]
Your success, when it happens, will utterly shock you. It won’t be that thing you’ve been planning since your childhood. More than likely, you don’t even feel that way anymore. (I wanted to be a psychologist, an artist, and many other things.) Instead, out of left field, there will come some tiny opportunity. When you [...]
