Know the value of what you have. If you put a price on what you already have, friends, family, life, the world, you’ll find you’re already a trillionaire and always have been. (Dale Carnegie) To manage your energy, manage your stress. With less stress, your energy will feel limitless. …

There is no shortage of internet creators, influencers and gurus preaching the benefits of daily journaling. I’ve been keeping a daily journal myself for 100 days. Every morning I write down one intention, one small task, for each of the key areas in my life. Wellness Relationships Knowledge Adventure Craft …

There are six activities that have been at the core of human survival for thousands, if not millions, of years. The humans that enjoyed these activities were more likely to survive. While our survival doesn’t depend on these activities today, our happiness still does. #1: Relationships The Harvard Study of…

Studying time isn’t just for physicists and philosophers, it’s for everyday people who want to make the most of it. Here are three concepts that’ll change how you think about time: #1 — Time is Subjective Perception of time is actually malleable. If you want life to feel longer than…

What is the meaning of life? Based on the number of talks, classes, documentaries and articles about “the meaning of life”, you would think this is the most important question you can ask. But it’s not a very useful one. How do we define life? Plants and humans? Earthly and otherwise? Majestic and bacterial? …

There is a moment in everyone’s career when you realize that people are the only thing that make work hard. People also make work fun, rewarding and worthwhile. But people are complex. Experts design entire fields of study, like “change management”, to corral them. …

If you want a problem solved in the real world, not just on paper, you have to have a system for executing on it. If a framework is your plan on how to spend time, energy, attention and money to achieve an outcome, your system is what ensures you follow…

Frameworks are the answer to this question: how will I spend my time, attention, energy and money to solve ____ problem? Frameworks don’t have to be complicated. An outline is a framework for how to spend time writing. A to-do list is a framework for using your attention. …

Tesla wouldn’t exist if Elon Musk didn’t appreciate first principles. Somebody could say, “Battery packs are really expensive and that’s just the way they will always be… Historically, it has cost $600 per kilowatt hour. It’s not going to be much better than that in the future.” With first principles…