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The Four Idols: Money, Power, Pleasure, & Fame
The Four Idols framework says that everyone is driven by the pursuit of one (or more) of the following idols: Money, Power, Pleasure, and Fame.We make most of our dail...
The Simplicity Audit
Complexity is a silent killer of focus, clarity, and performance. This statement is true for businesses, but even more so for your work and life. It's easy to let comp...
The Deathbed Regret List
We're often told that we should live life according to a core set of values. The challenge, of course, is in determining and defining what these core values are.The De...
The Flow State Boot Up Sequence
The Boot Up Sequence is a fixed set of actions and environmental cues that mentally and physically mark the start of your work session. While it can be used for any wo...
The Parable of the Farmer & the Horse
A parable is broadly defined as a succinct story that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. My view is that these parables have a sort of “Lindy e...
The One-in-a-Row Principle
One of the most significant obstacles we face on our journey to progress is intimidation at what the progress will require. Sometimes the notion of needing to commit t...
The Surfer Mentality
The Surfer Mentality: When a surfer gets up on a wave, they enjoy the present moment, even though they know with certainty that the wave will eventually end. They full...
10 Dangerous Lies We Tell Ourselves
The 10 most dangerous lies we tell ourselves.
The Ultimate Productivity Tool
The Eisenhower Matrix is a 2x2 visualization tool that forces you to differentiate between the urgent and the important in order to prioritize and manage your time mor...
The 4 Types of Luck
This episode covers the most valuable framework I've encountered for thinking about luck: The 4 Types of Luck. The 4 types of luck are (1) Blind Luck, (2) Luck from Mo...
Life Lessons from 1,000 Years
I asked a number of 90-year-olds a simple question: "If you could speak your 32-year-old self, what advice would you give?" The responses were incredible...
23 Ways to Make 2023 Your Miracle Year
This piece contains 23 actionable ideas for making 2023 your miracle year—segmented into categories across work, health, money, and personal.
The Annual Planning Guide
My Annual Planning Guide includes: (1) a simple goal-setting framework, (2) four system-building mental models, and (3) a strategy for tracking and adjusting throughou...
The Personal Annual Review
The Personal Annual Review is 7 questions: (1) What did I change my mind on this year? (2) What created energy this year? (3) What drained energy this year? (4) Who we...
The Power of the Walk
There is one tool that has been used with near perfect consistency by history's greatest men and women. From artists and inventors to entrepreneurs and athletes, they...
Three Step Learning Model
The Three-Step Learning Model: (1) Read & Research to build a base, (2) Teach to cement learnings and highlight knowledge gaps, and (3) Assess & Iterate to fill the gaps.
The Most Powerful Life Hacks
Here are 50+ short, timeless insights for simplifying your world—"hacks" for your life, careers, relationships, health, money, and more.
Attention Residue
Attention residue is the idea that there is a cognitive cost to shifting your attention from one task to another. When our attention is shifted, there is a "residue" t...
8 Life Rules Worth Breaking
Today's piece shares 8 rules that have been commonly repeated, but that we should probably start breaking.
The Paradox of Time
In today's piece, I'd like to take you on a short journey—a walk through time, if you will—and share a few perspectives and action items that will leave you with an en...
The Importance of Embracing Friction
The importance of embracing fiction and the dangers of modern society's obsessive quest to remove it from our lives.
Non-Obvious Traits of High Performers
Today at a GlanceA high performer is a person who consistently executes their craft at a top-1% level over an extended period of time.I'm very fortunate to be able to ...
