Three Virtues of Thanksgiving
I love Thanksgiving and Christmas. These two holidays capture everything I find inspiring about the human spirit and the culture around them has a tendency to bring out the best in people. Between the...
View ArticleDoers 003 — Mathew Pregasen on Learning to Code, Starting Companies as a...
Mathew Pregasen is the cofounder of Parsegon (https://www.parsegon.com), an ed-tech company that can translate typed language into symbols in live-time, and a student at Columbia University. Mathew and...
View ArticleHow to Break Your Facebook Consumption for Good
I use Facebook actively. I travel a lot, have moved 4+ times in the last three years, and work remotely for most of my clients. Facebook makes it easy for me to stay in touch with people all across the...
View ArticleNavigating the Labyrinth of Life with Ambition Mapping
One of my deepest fears is waking up one day and living a life that I did not create. I’ve met far too many people — young and old — who realize they are living a life that they fell into rather than...
View ArticleThe Most Valuable Thing You Can Do Right Now: Author Yourself
This piece was originally published at The Mission. I consider myself a pretty ambitious person. There are things I want to accomplish, people I want to influence, and places I want to see. But it is...
View ArticleShow Up Every Day and Do The Work
This piece was originally posted at The Mission. There’s an old Woody Allen quotation that “80% of success is just showing up.” This quotation is used to motivate people to get started on what they...
View ArticleStephen Covey’s Favorite Quotation
This week, I had the pleasure of hearing Chris McChesney give a fantastic keynote on his book, The Four Disciplines of Execution (which is discussed in Doers 017 with Joshua Fischer), at the State...
View ArticleHow to Get Ahead When You Have Nothing to Offer
This is the tentative introduction to my new book out this winter. Sign up on one of my Sumo boxes to get early access as a beta reader and/or help me choose a cover. This was originally published at...
View ArticleDo Harder Stuff to Become a Better Person
Always choose harder stuff. When given the option to choose between something challenging and rewarding and something less challenging and less rewarding, always choose the more challenging thing. We,...
View ArticleStop Relying on Motivation & Willpower to Succeed
Don’t rely on your willpower to accomplish your tasks. No matter how many articles you read about Elon Musk getting everything done before 3 AM or how you can write a book in a week if you just drink...
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