New Years’ Resolution – Goals or Gales?
As you set goals, especially those tied to very “narrow” constraints, be careful that you don’t substitute one level of uncertainty and frustra…
Tag: 16 Elements – Growth
When moving forward means saying goodbye
The world needs the light and magic you have inside of you. Your journey itself—and the promise of what is to come—is more important than any posi…
When the journey ahead terrifies you
Being terrified doesn’t mean you’re weak, it means you’re human. And the most important steps we take in life are often going to be the most ter…
TEDx Talk: Reaching your personal escape velocity
We must make a fundamental change to how we view ourselves—not as the product of our past, but for the potential of our future. Watch Rusty Lindquis…
Finding fulfillment: 4 truths of personal progress
These four truths about mastery and personal progress will help you find fulfillment, purpose, and direction in life, and will help you get past your …
Find perspective in this surprisingly effective lens for life
FIND PERSPECTIVE IN THIS SURPRISINGLY EFFECTIVE LENS FOR LIFE articles Imagine you’ve been given a garden. It’s your garden, and you’re responsible for its care.…
Failure and critics – ignore them both
When you have a vision—when you really believe you can make a difference, do something great, or create something meaningful—you’ve got to learn…
10 steps to make change easier
Change is difficult, but by understanding the biology behind it, we uncover 10 powerful steps that can increase our chance of success, and even make i…
The pursuit of mastery and the mastery asymptote
When you accept the inescapable nature of the mastery asymptote, you realize the joy isn't in the destination (which will forever elude you), rather, …
What Abraham Lincoln taught me about failure
Abraham Lincoln failed many times before he succeeded. Learn a lesson from him when you feel like you'll never reach success.
Making the most of microcosms
A microcosm is just a small version of something much larger. It’s usually very similar in the most important regards, but much simpler. To do somet…
Change blindness and the all-of-a-sudden syndrome
Things rarely happen “all of a sudden.” They happen incrementally, by degrees; slowly, over time. The problem is, we usually don’t see them happ…
Shaun White, and the real story of his success
Shaun had all the ingredients to engineer his life for success. He showed early on that he had the passion, the commitment, the drive, and the willing…
Are you failing on a regular basis?
People tend to view failure as weakness. But I think it’s the other way around. If struggles make you stronger, what does it mean if you’ve stoppe…
The art of barrier – busting
In weight lifting, you work and work to overcome a plateau, a particular weight barrier, only to be immediately confronted with another one. And no so…
Rededication, overcoming entropy in your personal life
I love... the turn of the new year, largely because we take the opportunity to reevaluate our lives, assess where we've been, and plan where we're goi…
If – by Rudyard Kipling
An inspirational poem about conquering the complexities of life and rising above.
Straining toward achievement
Any time you want to push yourself well beyond what you have done before, the amount of effort required will be dramatically disproportionate to the i…
How to reconcile hope with failure
Optimism and disappointment are not antithetical. They co-exist in perfect harmony. In truth, the relationship between hope and disappointment is symb…
It is what you make of it
IT IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT articles Once upon a time, there was a child whose father gave him a set of blocks and…