Here’s something we can all agree on: we want our lives to matter. We all want to live a satisfying, fulfilling, and purposeful life. This isn’t just a selfish desire. I believe that feeling a certain amount of significance in your life is healthy. It’s good for the human experience. There is a healthy satisfaction… [click to continue reading...]
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The Two Types of Inspiration (Are You Using Both in Your Work and Life?)
It’s easy to spend all day searching for inspiration. You can find incredible videos, articles, and news stories, and email them out to all of your friends. But the best (and longest lasting) type of inspiration comes from applying those outside bits of motivation to your own goals. Make no mistake: it’s important to be… [click to continue reading...]
How to Focus and Concentrate Better: Lessons From a Lion Tamer
Over a century ago, a lion tamer named Clyde Beatty learned a lesson that is so important that it impacts nearly every area your life today. What was that lesson? Keep reading to find out what a lion tamer can teach you about how to focus, concentrate better, and live a healthier life.… [click to continue reading...]
How to Say No, Resist Temptation, and Stick to Your Health Goals
Learning how to say no is one of the most useful skills you can develop, especially when it comes to living a healthy life. Saying no to unnecessary commitments can give you the time you need to recover and rejuvenate. Saying no to daily distractions can give you the space you need to focus on… [click to continue reading...]
3 Time Management Tips That Will Improve Your Health and Productivity
Time management can be tough. What is urgent in your life and what is important to your life are often very different things. This is especially true with your health, where the important issues almost never seem urgent even though your life ultimately hangs in the balance. No, going to the gym today isn’t urgent,… [click to continue reading...]
How to Achieve Your Goals (This Simple Trick Makes Progress Easy)
In the last 6 months, I’ve experimented with a simple strategy that has improved my work and my health. Using this one basic idea, I have made consistent progress on my goals every single week without incredible doses of willpower or remarkable motivation. Today, I want to share how I use this strategy and how… [click to continue reading...]
Why Everyone Should Lift Weights: 3 Benefits That Nobody Ever Talks About
I’ll say it plain and simple: you should be lifting weights. But not necessarily for the reasons that you might think. For example, I don’t believe that strength is the main benefit of weightlifting. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love being strong as much as the next person, but there is more value in… [click to continue reading...]
Lessons From a San Francisco Sunrise: The Magic of Committing to a Specific Goal
In our noisy world of multitasking, always connected, and overstimulated work, it’s easy to live in a constant state of distraction. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Earlier this week, as I wrapped up a 5–day trip in San Francisco, I was reminded of the power of committing yourself to a single task.… [click to continue reading...]
What Does it Mean to Live a Healthy Life?
This is one of the central questions that our community is working to answer. For my part, I started asking this question when I decided that exercising and eating healthy, while important, is a painfully limited view of what it means to live a healthy life. I would imagine that we’ll be answering this question… [click to continue reading...]
The #1 Regret From the Lives of Dying Hospital Patients (And How to Avoid It)
Bronnie Ware is a nurse in Australia. She has spent more than a decade counseling dying people. Over that time span, she began recording the top regrets that people have on their death bed. After 12 years, she concluded that the most common regret of all was this: “I wish I’d had the courage to… [click to continue reading...]