Questions can be almighty and powerful. I recently wrote about some questions that I ask myself on a daily basis. Since then, I've been learning a lot, and therefore have upgraded the questions I'm asking myself. I feel this is a small, yet important step in my development, so I'm sharing them with you. (I've also written about the power of questions in another post, which I recommend if you haven't read it.) Asking the right questions is essential in creating a life of fulfi

Make your destiny your prey, and don't stop until you've fully captured it. I heard this recently (I can't remember where... maybe a podcast, or an Instagram post) but regardless, it really resonated with me. It put's an aggressive tone on the already true statement that you're responsible for your own destiny, so long as you take control of your life. I like the tone of this because it's imperative. As in, your destiny is your prey and you MUST go after it in order to surviv

Last night I got pretty emotional lying next to my girlfriend in bed. I couldn't help but be so damn thankful for all the joyful moments we've shared together, including the present moment of lying by her side, and all the future moments we'll have. I was flooded with gratitude. How could I not be? It's insane how much laughter and beautiful emotional experiences we've created just in the short one and a half years we've been together. I get so excited thinking about the life

The most successful companies are the ones you don't even know you're using because they work so well. They do what they're supposed to so well that you don't even notice their presence. Meaning, they serve you as a customer so well - they know your needs well enough to give you a tool to accomplish them, without you even knowing you're using a tool. Your hammer works so perfectly, that you only see the nail getting tightly lodged into the wood, forgetting about the tool in y

One thing I've realized over time is that if you don't change, things don't change. If I could spread one message for everyone to see on a metaphorical billboard high up in the sky, it would probably be this: 'IF YOU WANT THINGS TO GET BETTER, YOU HAVE TO GET BETTER.' In other words, if you want things to change, you have to change. More importantly, if you want your life to get better, you have to get better. I've been around long enough to realize that waiting for things to

Here's a thought - if everything we're searching for - all external rewards, lifestyles, material things, ultimately serve to affect how we feel on the inside - then why wouldn't we just work on our insides first, so that no matter what's happening on the outside, we control how we feel? This is so simple, yet so profound. We've all heard "happiness comes from the inside" but if we really think about it - every thing we search for really comes down to how we think it'll make

There's two ways we can die. One is by death, and the other is by not living. We need fear to keep us from dying. But we need passion to keep us living. Fear is anti-death. Passion is pro-life. If you don't have either, you die. In order to be happy, we must find, create, and develop our passions. We must also listen to our fears, but not give in to them when they don't serve us. Most of the innate fears we have won't kill us anymore. I like to think of them more as a guidepo

What if a failure today meant a bigger success later down the road? If it doesn't work out this time, that doesn't mean it won't work out. God's delays are not God's denials. The system is not built for you to succeed. You have to break through it. It's not the end of the world. It's just a fucking bummer. You get to a million by being happy with the hundred you have today. Most people think it's the opposite. If I can just get to a million, then I'll be happy. (You can use w

What if everything bad that happened on our planet was actually just an opportunity to do something good in another area? Everything we perceive to be "bad" in the world, is really just a chance to be better in some other area. Anytime something happens that we perceive to be "bad" - bad for our family, bad for our nation, bad for something or someone - we dwell. We get fearful. And over the long term, we get CYNICAL. WE LOSE HOPE IN OUR FELLOW PEOPLE, AND OUR SPECIAL PLANET

Have you ever asked yourself this? I mean really. It is actually a useful question when you're stressing about something coming up. Say you're getting ready for a job interview, or a date, or some situation where you're out of your element. Do your palms get sweaty? Does your heart start to race? Do you get short of breath? All of that tends to happen to me when I'm nervous. But then I ask myself, "What's the worst that could happen?" I don't typically spend much time ruminat