Blogs Personal Growth Isn’t Linear: The Psychology Behind Relapse People often change very drastically, often very quickly, too. The problem is, it’s very common to view such growth as linear, a smooth, upward trajectory, going from sub-optimal all the way up to excellence. This, however, is rarely the case. Growing and changing yourself is more often than not
Blogs What Actually Causes You To Change? This question has been on my mind lately, I’ve been pondering it and have come up with an answer I’m pretty satisfied with. What does it actually take for someone to go from 0 to 1? If there could be a deciding factor, what would it be? Of
Blogs Here's What I learned From 2 Years of Writing When I started writing, it was for the sheer purpose of delving deeper into the things that interested and fuelled me the most, not for the writing itself. What I didn’t expect during the 2 years I’ve spent doing so are the multiple positive consequences that would come
Blogs 3 Hidden Things Stopping You From Growing You’re trying to change, trying to improve, but just can’t seem to reach the next level. You’re stuck in a rut, spinning your wheels trying to get traction. But what are you doing wrong? This is more common than you think, and the answer is often one
Blogs The Mental Framework To Win Long-Term Setting big, hard and long-term goals is great. They allow us to grow and improve, and hopefully lead us to getting what we worked so hard for. But how do we stick to that work? As stated in the definition, long-term goals take a long time to achieve, and a
Blogs Aiming Up - The Ultimate Sense Of Direction I believe a major problem with many is that they rely too heavily on their goals. They expect them to make them happy, to make them feel fulfilled, and use them as a sign of success. What we seem to forget, however, is that the version of us who sets
Blogs 3 Lessons The Gym Teaches About Life Most people go to the gym to get strong, build muscle, lose fat or build cardiovascular endurance. But might there be something more to learn? Something more to gain other than just the physical benefits? Exercises might just be the singular biggest predictor of your physical wellbeing, and the fact
Blogs Why Your Systems Matter More Than Your Goals Wanting success usually starts by setting goals and creating plans, but what if I were to tell you that neither one matters as much as your systems? Systems are how things happen, not what you plan to happen. The difference is subtle, yet fundamental. Your goal is to get fit,
Blogs Want To Change Your Life? Read This. Are you currently feeling stuck? Feeling like you’re not going anywhere? Feeling as though life is something happening to you, something you can’t change? This can be an extremely frustrating and lonely place to be, knowing what you could achieve and just not quite getting the breakthrough you
Blogs The Day Before The Breakthrough Looks Identical To The Day Before You Quit Working towards something that not only takes a long time but also requires a level of dedication, grit, and the ability to repeat the same day over and over again with no signs of progress is one of the hardest journeys you can embark on. This title is one of
Blogs 100th Blog Special: My 3 Favourite Insights With it being the day before a whole new year begins and being this blog's 100th post, I thought what better way to do it than to recap my favourite insights thus far. I started this blog because of how obsessed I had become of the journey of
Blogs Reflection Is A Tool For Progress Considering it’s Christmas Eve, you can relish in the fact that you won’t need to do as much reading as you usually would. And keeping with the theme of Christmas and the end of another year, I would like to talk about reflection, because it’s the perfect
Blogs Playing To Win, Not Just To Survive Playing to win and playing to avoid losing are two completely separate things, although on the surface and to an untrained eye, they can look indistinguishable, so much so that the person playing may not even know that they’re playing the wrong game. Although it may sound self-explanatory, if
Blogs Improving Focus To Succeed Many things are going to affect how likely, how quickly and how efficiently you achieve any given goal. Hard work, skill, luck, discipline, and consistency, to name a few. But there is one that I’d put above the rest, and that’s your ability to focus. The reason it’
Blogs The Shift - Going Beyond Self-Improvement For those of you who have delved deep into the world of self-improvement, who have spent their time reflecting, self-assessing, and finding any flaws they may have that are limiting them in some way, you might be wondering what comes next. Most of us who aim to improve ourselves most
Blogs Getting Offended - The Problem With Today's World Two major problems in today's world have led to the victim mentality crisis. Today, people believe that their feelings matter more than logic and common sense. They try to ban words and phrases, as if we, humans, didn’t just one day make them up and assign meaning
Blogs How to Work Smarter, Not Harder We’ve all heard the saying “Work smarter, not harder”. Usually, we hear it when someone is being lazy, making light of their lack of effort. But it’s catchy, it sounds good, it sounds like something we’d all like to do. Getting equal output for less input is
Blogs How to Go From Who You Are, to Who You Want to Be One of the most interesting things to me is that so many people accept who they are, as though they cannot be changed and cannot be improved. I don’t just mean improving yourself to achieve the things you want, either. People fail to understand that they can change the
Blogs Don’t Chase Goals, Solve Problems Obviously, it’s good to have goals, right? Yes and no. Yes, having goals is good, however, there just might be something better. Whether they mean it or not, our parents and teachers have always told us to set goals and to have dreams. And to keep striving towards them
Blogs If You Want An Easier Life, Do Harder Things A big lesson I have learned over the last couple of years is this: Life will make sure that you struggle; the only thing you can do is choose what to struggle with. Hard times are inevitable, people age, health is unpredictable, and failure is a requirement. Basically, life is
Blogs How To Regain Your Momentum Moits Momentum is when motivation is at its highest, and continuing to take action requires little to no effort at all. Results are positive, everything is good. We all know what experiencing momentum is like, and that’s why losing it is something everyone should try to avoid. If avoiding
