But when you do know how to do it, you can achieve your dreams I have a secret to tell you. You can achieve practically any of your wildest dreams. It really doesn’t matter how big. Suspicious? Doubtful? By the end of this blog post, you won’t be. I’m going
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure — or you can learn from it. So go
“Passion” gets a lot of bad press these days. There seems to be much written about why having passion is bad. The problem for most people is that they believe passion is the moving cause, when in reality, passion is an effect. In the book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You:
Life is complex and messy. It can be extremely difficult to get traction, let alone find motivation. But motivation is something you can learn to create at will. Becoming deeply passionate is also within your creative control. As a result, you can completely predict your own success. You can choose to become
In 1986, Dr. Sinah Goode and Dr. Richard A. Magill published a study called, “Contextual interference effects in learning three badminton serves.” As a reminder, badminton is like a mix between tennis and ping-pong with a funny looking feathery rubber thingy you hit. In the study, the goal was to test
Change doesn’t happen until it must happen. Inner drive is far from sufficient; its failed you many times in the past. Necessity is the mother of invention. If you really want to change your life, you need to create conditions of necessity. Herein lies the new science of transformation. You need to shock your
Until you love something, you’ll never give everything you have for it. Passion fades. Love only becomes more powerful, regardless of the outcome. Love is the highest of all human motivations. The lower motivations — avoiding punishment/pain, seeking reward/pleasure, and duty — aren’t even comparable to the power of love. Love
Are you born the way you are and never change? Or, are you always changing? In Western Culture, the predominant belief is that, for the most part, your identity is a “fixed” characteristic. It’s DNA-based, and possibly solidified through your experience in the womb and before the age of 6
Perhaps the biggest myth in Western culture is that we are born with a fixed and intrinsic personality — that who we are when we’re born is who we’ll be when we die. This view is extremely dominant among Baby Boomers, who grew up in homes and with parents who
“When you train your creativity, you automatically train your memory. When you train your memory, you automatically train your creative thinking skills!” — Tony Buzan Memory and imagination are inextricably connected. In fact, your memory is imagined. It’s not concrete nor objective fact. But rather, your memory is how you