There comes a point when your responsibilities outweigh your capacities. As a CEO, this can be a hard day of reckoning. There’s a lot of ego involved when wearing the badge, “Chief.” I recently sat down with Tony Stubblebine, the CEO of Coach.me to unpack what makes a great CEO. Tony founded Coach.me based on the simple idea that coaching is the secret weapon of elite performers.…
People ask me all the time how I structure my days in order to produce so much content on a consistent basis. The key to creating great work is being prolific. Stephen King said it best: “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware…
If you want to start a business, you need to create content. Should you start a blog, a podcast or a YouTube channel? How do you decide where to begin? Check out today’s video to learn my best advice for starting out: At the end of the day, your job is to find one platform that really matches with your personality and production style, then use it to…
Philosophy’s absence from the business world is a crucial mistake. By and large ignored by popular culture and forgotten by the media, modern philosophy has been delegated strictly to the classrooms by its own doing. Rather than adapting to the times, modern philosophers have retreated into an ivory tower of abstract intellectualism and esoteric gloating. Come on guys, you’re giving philosophy a bad name! For those of us…
When I think about strategies for better living, I consider the rule of E: efficiency, effectiveness, and essentialism. Recently, I’ve been on a kick about cultivating deep focus. In the age of social media and modern technology, we’ve lost the ability to focus. Which is why I’ve made it my aim to be more mindful. “Mindfulness” is a hot topic these days, and while more and more people…
The easiest way to waste decades of your life is to mistake pleasure for fulfillment. Pleasure lives in the realm of now. It’s made of feeling and emotion, which are both very important, but predictably unstable. It’s impossible to base a meaningful life solely on the pursuit of pleasure. At the extreme end of pleasure: over-eating, over-sleeping, chronic masturbation and sex addiction, television, benders, cocaine and ice cream…
Over that past few years my advice has been regularly featured to millions of people all over the world in places like: TIME Fortune Entrepreneur The Huffington Post Fox News Business Insider Inc. I’m not just listing those links to show you how much of a big shot I am (although my mom thinks so). I mention them because after writing for so many big outlets, I’ve learned…
I love my parents. I really do. But when it comes to their thoughts on money and my life trajectory… They warped me. Badly. Sorry for being blunt, but they did. I don’t hold any resentment. They weren’t trying to psychologically cripple their little four-year old when they made me pick between the doctor bag or the police hat. However, the very fact that I was prodded to make…
Let’s get a few things straight. Talking about entrepreneurship, just to talk about entrepreneurship, and then selling a “private video series” at the end of the talking, isn’tactual entrepreneurship. The purpose of entrepreneurship, while it certainly has a self-serving element to it, is primarily service to others. Embedded in all ethical businesses is an intrinsic element of social good, even if the owners profit wildly as a result. You see…
Why I Worship The God of Boredom. It’s 6:30am and I’m at it again. I’m writing this thing that you’re reading. Every morning, just as the sun is coming up, I sit down at my desk to write. I’m talking deliberate writing, with a serious expression on my face. This isn’t a game. I don’t do this out of novelty. I don’t do this for money (most of…