Tony Robbins: 9 Ways to Persuade Yourself into Peak Performance

Tony Robbins has written four best-selling books, his various businesses earn an estimated $5 billion in annual revenue, and he’s helped millions of people, including me. While I’ve benefited tremendously from his work, I’ve always been skeptical of the validity of his strategies. Tony’s books …

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The Happiness Trap: Why You’re Never Satisfied and How to Break the Cycle

 You keep working and working — slogging through the doldrums of day-to-day life, repressing your desires for pleasure — looking forward to the day when it all pays off. The moment when you achieve that elusive state of happiness. …Or maybe it doesn’t pay off. …

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5 Ways Entrepreneurship is Overrated (and What to Do Instead)

This article was originally published on Medium.  Money. Freedom. Respect. Fame. These are some of the many promises of the all-holy entrepreneurship. In recent years, there has been a flood of blog posts, eBooks and video courses on why and how to become an entrepreneur. “How to Make …

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23 Good Habits for an Energized and Productive Day

Habits are what you do on a daily basis to achieve your long term goals. Once something is habituated, it’s like it’s on auto-pilot. It requires less thought and effort to execute. It’s not so much a decision you make as much as it’s something …

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4 Steps to Conquer Fear of Rejection

Fear of rejection is a state of mind that almost all humans experience at some point in their lives. For some people, the feeling is debilitating. In some cases, it’s debilitating to the point of preventing the person from taking the necessary steps to living …

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The Gratitude List That Saved My Life

I was about to blow up my life. I was going to leave my life behind and move to South America. I had my own business and an amazing girlfriend, but it wasn’t enough. I desperately wanted more. And it brought me to the brink …

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25 Things I Stopped Giving Any F*cks About

This article was originally posted on Medium.  I thought about work during sex. Naked woman. Mid thrust. People give too many f*cks about too many things. I used to too. We’re all guilty of it. But then I stopped giving any f*cks. How? I started …

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22 Personal Development Quotes: Debunked!

Personal development has helped me tremendously throughout the years. I’ve gone from an anxious guy who lacked self-confidence to a business owner with a loving girlfriend of over two years. But there’s also a lot of crappy personal development advice out there with little or …

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8 Steps to Writing a Book That Sells

Writing a book can be a great way to market yourself and even make money. But actually finishing the steps to writing a book and achieving the results you want is much harder in practice. In this article I’ll share the eight steps to writing …

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How to Stop Worrying About the Future

Anxiety was a helpful emotion for humans because it inspired us to take action in the face of real and immediate problems. Let’s look at a common scenario from pre-civilized times to illustrate this point: You hear leaves cracking near your home. You know based …

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