3 Surprising Secrets to Maintaining Your Focus.

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The answer isn’t working harder — it’s how you work that matters. You’re probably too busy to read this article. You probably have at least 20 other browser tabs open right now (I’m ashamed to say I have 28 open as I’m writing this). You probably have a to-do list filled with other things you should be doing. […]

How A Sticky Note On My Bathroom Mirror Massively Impacted My Life.

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Focus is a hard thing to obtain. There are just so many things buzzing around in our heads. It’s the digital age we live in. I thought I’d have a go at focusing on one thing. At 8 am one morning before work, I got out a yellow posted note and wrote the following: I, […]

I Started Life From Scratch 7 Years Ago Today.

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Everybody I knew was going to NYC — and I was leaving. Leaving of my own, free, 21 year-old will. Moreover, I wasn’t going to the Bermudas or [fill in the blank with your furthest vacation destination]. I wasn’t going to stretch my legs on an Instagram-perfect beach. I was going 5000 miles away. To the place […]

Ordinary People Focus on the Outcome. Extraordinary People Focus On the Process.

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In his autobiography, Bryan Cranston (Walter White of the renowned Breaking Bad) described the lesson he learned that helped him go from an average actor to an extraordinary one. Here’s what he wrote: “Early in my career, I was always hustling. Doing commercials, guest-starring, auditioning like crazy. I was making a decent living…but I felt I […]

How To Find Clarity When You’re Stuck.

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Questions Can Give Us The Insight We Need To Move Forward. Do you ever get stuck? Do you ever have times when you’re working hard, doing all the right things and still you can’t seem to make progress? If you’re an entrepreneur, a creative or you’re simply trying to branch out into new areas then I’m sure you’ve […]

What Hurts Most About Disillusionment.

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And why it’s not about losing trust in people. As with anyone who hasn’t glued on their rosy glasses with super glue, I find disillusionment a recurring companion of life experiences. There’s no pathos to this fact, and just a little sentimental sadness. Mostly, after the smoke subsides and the embers cool down, there’s always […]

This Essential Experience Increases Your Confidence And Creative Ability.

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In 2007, I was 21 years old and I was sitting in Philly’s Pizza in Beverly Hills. I was on my lunch break. Every day I would get two slices of pepperoni and olives and read. That day it was a re-read, a chapter in 33 Strategies of War about the Battle of Marathon. There was a […]

10 Things The Corporate World *Didn’t* Teach Me.

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I’ve just left the corporate world. It’s been seven years and I don’t regret a single second of it. You’d think I would have learned everything there is to know about business in the corporate world. I didn’t. There were a lot of gaps which I luckily was able to fill in during my entrepreneur […]