achieving your dreams
Outgrowing Things (or The Real Reason Your Relationship is Falling Apart)
When you reflect on the year past, it's easy to focus on your accomplishments and what happened. What might be interesting to think about are the activities you stopped doing [...]
Let Your Light Shine
The most important decision you have to make every day is where you spend your time and energy. Every day you allocate these two precious resources and your current situation [...]
How to Jumpstart Your Life by Reinventing Yourself
You probably think your life could be better. It's not that it's bad. It's just not what you'll call "awesome". If you want to confirm this, answer this question: What [...]
How to Be Happier Today Than You Were Yesterday
When I ask parents what they want for their kids, the most popular answer I get is: “I just want my kids to be happy” In the United States Declaration [...]
How to Be More Disciplined
If someone is next to you right now, ask them this question (if you’re by yourself, ask yourself): How can I be more disciplined? What was the answer? Was it [...]
William Zinsser’s Commencement Speech at Wesleyan University 1988
Seventeen years before Steve Job's famous commencement address at Stanford in 2005, William Zinsser addressed the graduating class at Wesleyan University with a speech that was phenomenal. I came across this [...]
Fueled by Passion – Chuck Close
Imagine coming from a childhood where your teachers thought you were lazy and slow because you tested poorly (due to dyslexia), your peers alienated you because you were bad at [...]
Focused Execution – How to Turn Dreams into Reality – Part 3
This is the final article of the How to Turn Dreams into Reality Series. If you haven't read Part 1 - Setting Proper Goals or Part 2 - Creating an [...]
Creating an Effective Plan – How to Turn Dreams Into Reality – Part 2
The first part of this 3-part series on turning your dreams into reality showed you how to properly set goals. If you don't have a goal or remember how to [...]