One of the books that has had the most impact on me (and one that I have read multiple times) is A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine. After being introduced to Stoicism by reading one of Ryan Holiday’s books (I can’t recall if I read ...

Today, I’m heading down a path of reexamining my daily gratitude practice. Incorporating this daily practice has been a habit of mine for many years and continues to be reinforced in the books I have read over the years (see a list at the bottom). In one of the chapters I...

The overall thread I seem to be following today is about reframing.

I subscribe to Ozan Varol’s newsletter, and yesterday, he had a profound message that I think I will find ways to incorporate into my personal and business life. He said, “Instead of asking ‘What do you...

Despite my realization yesterday that the same messages and patterns keep repeating, it still fascinates me when I see them pop up. This morning, I was reading Effortless, and McKeown writes, “Our brain is wired to resist what it perceives as hard and welcome what it...

Embracing Effortlessness

The thread I seem to be following today is around the idea that we can make the things we do feel effortless by getting into a state of flow (while I’m not currently reading it, the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly is an absolute must-read!)....

Wow, today I feel very called out (but not in a bad way). I started reading Greg McKeown’s book Effortless. I previously read his book Essentialism and loved it (I even follow him on LinkedIn for his weekly insights). I’m not even 15 pages into this book, and he describes...

Kahneman talks about two selves in how we experience the world—the experiencing self (essentially the “being present” self) and the remembering self (essentially the “living in the past” self). 

Damien and I just had a most interesting philosophical conversation about knowledge. 

We talked about something random, and he said (jokingly), “Everybody knows that.” 

It got me thinking: is there any universal knowledge that “everybody” actually knows?

After much thought...

I am always looking for new methods to improve my time management. It is almost to a level of fascination to me when I find a new tip or trick that saves me time—even if it is just a small amount. So when I found Dave Crenshaw’s training videos on LinkedIn, I was hooked!

We are what we consume. We are a construct of the five people closest to us. This seems to be a thread that keeps coming up repeatedly in the books I am reading, the pieces of training I am watching, and the social media I have been consuming.