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How to Achieve Any Goal

How to Achieve Any Goal

With enough energy and focus you can achieve any goal.Here are the three simple steps to success:   Step 1: Clearly define your goal. Step 2: Break down the steps...

How to Achieve Any Goal

With enough energy and focus you can achieve any goal.Here are the three simple steps to success:   Step 1: Clearly define your goal. Step 2: Break down the steps...

The Dangers of Empathy

The Dangers of Empathy

Empathy is having a moment. Today, a fair amount of pop psychology and self-help literature emphasizes the importance of empathy as a means to improving our relationships, workplaces, homes, and...

The Dangers of Empathy

Empathy is having a moment. Today, a fair amount of pop psychology and self-help literature emphasizes the importance of empathy as a means to improving our relationships, workplaces, homes, and...

The Fears of Growth

The Fears of Growth

The first step of growth is facing what we’d rather not see. From a young age, most of us developed a norm when handling our biggest emotions: we avoided them....

The Fears of Growth

The first step of growth is facing what we’d rather not see. From a young age, most of us developed a norm when handling our biggest emotions: we avoided them....

Rear Death Experience

Rear Death Experience

One of the myths of modern productivity is that our productivity problems are focus problems. While focus is necessary, it’s not actually inherently good or helpful. Sometimes we focus incredibly...

Rear Death Experience

One of the myths of modern productivity is that our productivity problems are focus problems. While focus is necessary, it’s not actually inherently good or helpful. Sometimes we focus incredibly...

Embracing Disillusionment

Embracing Disillusionment

Two weeks ago, I was listening to a monk share his personal journey into monasticism.He explained how for most of his college career he was on a trajectory that would...

Embracing Disillusionment

Two weeks ago, I was listening to a monk share his personal journey into monasticism.He explained how for most of his college career he was on a trajectory that would...

The Hidden Costs of Speed

The Hidden Costs of Speed

Today we live at an incredibly fast pace.It ->seems ->as ->if ->we ->are ->always ->on ->the ->go. -> We eat on the go, work on the go, learn on the...

The Hidden Costs of Speed

Today we live at an incredibly fast pace.It ->seems ->as ->if ->we ->are ->always ->on ->the ->go. -> We eat on the go, work on the go, learn on the...