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A decision I made 40 years ago still haunts me today. I was 16, and little did I know at the time that I was drawing cards from life’s Death Deck. Life’s Death Deck In Choose Hard, Live Easy, I call life’s Death Deck a pile of cards that are unfavorably skewed with catastrophic outcomes. …
I’ve been dealing with this decision-making BS for 20 years. Every day on my forum, I get a front-row seat to a special kind of madness. “I can’t succeed!” “I keep failing and can’t earn passive income!” “I give up on entrepreneurship!” And then these failed entrepreneurs reveal everything they’ve “tried” and failed at. LOL. …
I wish someone had told me this when I was 20. Back then, I was told that my comfort zone was my enemy. That, in order to grow, I always needed to be uncomfortable, to step out of my comfort zone. Heck, this myth still persists today. But it’s not true. And here’s why. Comfort …
I spent four years writing Choose Hard, Live Easy which is filled with over 70+ mental models. And throughout the entire process, one ominous warning from Aldous Huxley echoed in my head: “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, …
The following are modified excerpts from my new book, Choose Hard, Live Easy—the Art of War for Decision-Making, which is now available for pre-order reservations. You’ve probably seen the phrase “Carpe Diem,” or “seize the day,” on an office wall or proudly displayed on a desk. Forget it; it’s worthless. Instead, think Carpe Momentum, or …
Process is power. It is a divine human power. Unfortunately, most humans neglect this power and seek events—essentially running their lives like animals. No animal can rise to 1000X their personal power.Only humans can. What separates humans from the animal kingdom is our ability to engage in a concerted, conscious process that can last weeks, …
I have a family member who claims he can’t lose weight. According to him, he’s tried “everything.” Limiting belief? No, but a close cousin. The “I’ve tried everything” is just a freaking lie. A lie he tells himself, and by extension, the world. You see, he’s tried “everything” within his predefined box of solutions. He has mentally …
Three years ago, after 25 years, I traded Arizona’s sun for Utah’s mountains, upgrading my home from a plentiful 4,400 square feet to a sprawling 13,000. The game-changer? There were several, from an indoor basketball court to a home theater to the most important of all: a home gym. At last, I could exercise in …
For years, the idea of getting rich seemed impossible. When I was trying to figure things out, I wish someone showed me *THIS* when I was 20. Back then, I thought becoming a millionaire, or better, 8-figure+ multimillionaire, is was just a fantasy. A task that felt extremely out of reach. When I shifted my …
My wife hates that I have an affinity for watching and reading about true crime stories. Turns out I’m not alone. Anyway, there’s an odd reason I’m hooked on watching murder documentaries, and they lead to the two strategies I use to continually be happy and raise my baseline for happiness. No, I don’t have …
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