The Secret to Skyrocketing Your Skills in a Short Period of Time
To know what I want to do with my life and to avoid it is sinful.
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March 19, 2022
Articles By: Ayodeji Awosika
Escape the Cage of Your Past, Use the Present Moment to Change Your Future
Everything you do in every single moment of your life takes a vote for the person you’re going to be in the future.
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February 22, 2022
Your Job Is Not The Problem… You Are!
Put a metaphorical gun to your head in terms of building a better future for yourself.
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February 4, 2022
How to Finally Make This New Year “Your Year”
Losing doesn’t make you a loser. You’re only a loser if you believe you’re destined to lose.
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January 6, 2022
Everybody Gets Two Lives. The Second One Starts When They Realize They Only Have One
Some people will wake up at 50 wondering how they’ve wasted so much time, only to wake up at 84 and realize they wasted another 34 years.
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December 15, 2021
Want to Be Successful? Stop Trying So Hard
There’s a balance involved in being productive and living well. Work, but don’t overwork. Plan, but don’t obsess. Pursue, but pursue the journey of getting better inside, not outside.
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December 13, 2021
The Risk vs the Fear of Failure: Which Way? Pick Your Poison
If you try to avoid going for what you want because you’re afraid to fail, then you’ll definitely fail and remain afraid your entire life.
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December 6, 2021
3 Workable Steps to Build Momentum When You Want to Change Your Life
Once you get momentum, you’re golden. You’re literally a hot streak away from changing your life. If you can take a hot streak and convert it into sustainable progress, you won’t have to rely on massive amounts of motivation to keep getting better.
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October 1, 2021
The Wise Do Not Wait for the Government to Save Them
Less news, more self-taught education. Less fighting, more connection with like-minded people. Less waiting, more action.
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September 6, 2021
In the Journey of Life, What Lofty Heights Can You Get To?
The moral of the story: this is a crazy, weird, complicated, joyful, terrible, awesome, obstacle-filled, roller coaster ride of a journey. Give yourself credit for even trying to navigate it.
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August 16, 2021
The Beauty of Uncertainty
You’ve already been through moments where the reality of a situation wasn’t as bad as your anticipation of it. Remember those moments the next time you’re afraid to take a leap.
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August 3, 2021
The Only Three Options You Have When It Comes to Self-Improvement
You suffer mentally when you’re focused on the past, wishing it could change, or when you’re preoccupied and worried about the future.
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July 19, 2021
Will Today Be the Day You Reinvent Yourself?
You can always reinvent yourself. Always.
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July 12, 2021
You Know What to Do With Your Life. You’re Just Not Doing It
You’re worried about what people will think of you — but people are often so preoccupied with themselves that you can pretty much do what you want in a state of anonymity.
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May 24, 2021
How to Be Your Own Mentor
You can’t find contentment in easy payments of $99.99. What you can do, however, is learn from a wide variety of people, take what works, discard what doesn’t, and create a tailor-made education that suits you.
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May 18, 2021
You Don’t Have to Feel Brave and Confident to Build the Life of Your Dreams
Instead of trying to mentally jack yourself up to feel like doing something, you could just do it while feeling bad at the same time.
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May 11, 2021
The Three Phases of Your Success Journey and How to Make It Through Each One
You can perform a task without feeling like doing it. You can enter a situation boldly even if you don’t have confidence. You can attempt a path even though you’ve failed at every other attempt and don’t think you can do it now.
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May 3, 2021
You Can Either Act Now, Or Continue to Live in Fear
You’re afraid to fail pretty much because you want to avoid the intense and strong feeling of embarrassment, rejection, or feeling like a fool for thinking you had the right to try to be successful in the first place.
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April 27, 2021
The Most Clever Life-Hack I’ve Ever Learned
It’s actually easier to stand out by being thoughtful because so few people in this world take the time to be thoughtful and produce quality.
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April 14, 2021
Stop Getting in Your Own Way So You Can Start Doing What It Takes to Succeed
You already have everything you need to be successful. You’re just letting certain things get in the way of that success. Mostly, you’re getting in the way of that success.
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April 7, 2021
How to Turn Your “Potential” Into Results
We have to let go of the idea that potential matters. It doesn’t. What matters? Reality, results, outcomes, and the actual process it takes to achieve all the above.
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March 19, 2021
The Two Core Philosophies I Use to Stay Motivated
Life is measured by…whatever criteria you use to measure it by. You can make it feel short or you can make it feel long. You can use the scarcity of time to your advantage or let it hold you back. The choice is yours.
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March 16, 2021
How to Live a More Carefree Life
The more you put yourself out there, the less you’ll care about the opinions of other people.
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March 3, 2021
How to Use Your Seeds of a Dream to Build Your Mini Empire
You don’t tell yourself that the thing you’re interested in is impractical. You just see where it goes.
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February 22, 2021
The Perfect Recipe For Living the Life You Want
Are you chasing a dream because you want the dream or was it a dream that was implanted in your mind? Shouldn’t you just be happy and content?
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February 16, 2021
The Power of Your Prophecy
We trick ourselves into living below our potential to protect our ego and our identity. And then when we do try to set high expectations for ourselves, we only kind of sort of do it so we still have that out.
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February 8, 2021
How to Bridge the Gap Between Who You Are and Who You Want to Be
There are blueprints everywhere for any path you want to take.
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February 2, 2021
Are You Still on Track?
When you slip, don’t make it some sob story, just understand what happened and use those insights to try again.
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January 26, 2021
A Simple Three-Step Process for Achieving Long-Term Goals
It’s hard to have faith that the actions you do in the short-term are going to pay off in the long-term, but that’s the game.
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January 19, 2021
There Are Two Ways to Deal With the Uncertainty of the Future – Only One is Right
When it comes to your beliefs, you always want to ask yourself whether or not they’re useful to you.
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January 6, 2021
Why It’s So Hard to Get What You Want Even When You Feel Motivated
The initial period, the short term, is where you’ll struggle the most. The rest of the path you’re on is literally a matter of time.
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December 17, 2020
Begin With the End in Mind: How to Make 2021 The Best Year of Your Life
When you don’t have any intention to the way you’re living, opportunities will fly right by you without you noticing them.
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December 7, 2020
A Useful Skill You Can Use to Tackle Life’s Challenges
Learn to dance and play with the situations in your life, with your emotions, with your goals, and with the entire story, you tell yourself about your existence.
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December 3, 2020
The Roadblock that Prevents You From Building the Future You Want
Abandon the idea altogether that you’re going to become this perfect human being — the epitome of the shining self-help guru. You’re not.
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November 19, 2020
Prepare For the Golden Age
Feel fortunate that you live in a gatekeeper free world where you have so much access to education, technology, and other people that your limits and oppression are almost entirely psychological.
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November 5, 2020
How to be One of the Rare Few Who Follows Their Dreams
Think in terms of energy management, not time management.
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October 28, 2020
The Most Useful Attitude You Can Adopt to Deal With Life
You might end up getting everything you want and learning the lesson that success doesn’t make you happy.
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October 23, 2020
Your Behaviour Shows You Who You Really Are
Whatever you’re trying to accomplish, you have to find a way to manage that chicken-egg scenario where you need confidence to start but you have to start to have confidence.
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October 22, 2020
Do Your Flaws Continue to Trip You Up on Your Path to Success?
Commit the right actions, long enough, though, and your default sense of who you are will change entirely.
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October 6, 2020
Shun Shame and Embrace the Tools to be Successful
When you have a multi-disciplinary skillset, you have the ability to adapt to uncertain times.
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October 1, 2020
The Brutally Honest Truth About Success
Remove this idea from your head that there is some fairy tale answer to getting what you want.
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September 21, 2020
How Can You Finally Just Start Improving Your Life Once and For All?
Alain De Botton described the way the ethos of society permeates in the most perfect way possible. He calls it a “colorless, odorless gas.”
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September 16, 2020
The Secret to Changing Your Life’s Story
Your mind is this self-fulfilling prophecy machine. Any time you try a new challenging situation, your mind digs into its mental cabinet to see when you’ve tried similar things before. It’s wired to look for failures because your brain wants you to be safe.
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September 1, 2020
What If?
What would your life look like if you decided to go as hard as you possibly could? What if you just went for it? What if you just decided today was going to be the day that you stopped BSing yourself and went all-in on a better future?
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August 14, 2020
How to go From Zero to Hero and Rebuild Your Life
Keep your mouth shut, go about your business, and block the noise of society the best you can.
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August 5, 2020
How to Thrive in Almost Any Situation
You have the power to adapt to whatever life throws at you, even if you don’t always feel like the most capable person. Why? Because you’re a human being.
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July 28, 2020
The Counterintuitive Secret to Reaching Huge Goals
The perspective that life should be a serious endeavour, dominated by fear and conformity, is not the right way to go.
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July 8, 2020
The Antidote to Outrage: How to Avoid Taking the Negativity Bait Society Dangles In Front of You
Always, always, always remember — two things can be true at the same time.
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June 26, 2020
Easy Choices, Hard life. Hard Choices, Easy Life.
Each individual concession is insignificant, but look up a few years later, and the trap you find yourself in was built brick by brick with each little tiny concession.
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June 8, 2020
How to Become Great
There are just certain lessons about life you can’t learn until you try to become great at something.
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May 12, 2020
Tabula Rasa: How to Reinvent Yourself
If your old self isn’t serving you, why keep it?
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May 5, 2020
The Philosophy of Winning: How to Develop the Mindset of a Champion
You’d be amazed at what happens when you simply expect more out of yourself.
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April 21, 2020
How I Choose to View Productivity
When you start to look at your life as a series of decisions with opportunity costs, you tend to make better ones.
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April 8, 2020
How to Use This Time to Build Mental Toughness
From the looks of it, this is going to take a while, maybe quite a while. How are you going to come out of it?
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April 1, 2020
How to Deal with Uncertainty
I find myself pushing more into uncertainty every day. Why? Because I realised the goal of self-improvement isn’t to be able to predict the future and know exactly how to hit perfectly crafted goals.
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March 19, 2020
7 Myths About Entrepreneurship and Freelancing That Seriously Need to Die
“Everyone is an entrepreneur, but employees sell their services to one client.”
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January 30, 2020
Embrace the Suck: How to Master the Subtle Art of Painful Practice
When you suck, you can feel the distance between where you are and where you want to be.
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December 9, 2019
The Life-Changing Magic of Hobbies
If you’re feeling directionless, bored, apathetic, depressed, indifferent or stuck, get a hobby. And watch your life change
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November 22, 2019
