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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When Self-Improvement Turns Toxic Self-improvement should be a positive experience, although a lot of it comes from pain and stress, the overall process of focusing on one’s growth should be enjoyable. However, there comes a time when trying to improve yourself turns self-destructive, how ironic. When a person goes from being someone they
Responsibility - The First Step To Change There are many things that go into changing for the better as a person, as is evident through my writing. But there is one that I believe comes before any other. I have covered this topic a couple of times in the past, but I wouldn’t be doing it
Confidence Leaks - How To Believe In Yourself Not too long ago, I was on my way to an important interview, of which I had to drive through a major city with busy roads, something I’m not required to do very often. There was no thought of these roads, as it never usually bothers me; however, due
Chase Hard Things Some lessons and insights will need to be re-taught or re-learned over and over in someone's life, and doing hard things is one of them. In terms of my own personal growth, I credit most of the initial change to this very thing: purposefully chasing and completing hard
