Life throws us a mix of opportunities and challenges; navigating it all can often feel overwhelming. As someone who’s spent years advising people on mental performance and personal development, I’ve learned that one of the most effective tools for managing both is deceptively simple: making personal rules. Personal rules aren’t [...]
For over a decade, I have ended the year writing a blog about the pitfalls of New Year’s resolutions. I have offered suggestions for ways to improve your chances of having success if you make them, and talked about the mechanics of why I prefer goals to resolutions. This year, I decided to attack them from another angle, turning your desires or resolutions into “Stress Goals.” [...]
Admittedly, there are a multitude of factors that go into a team’s chances of repeating as champions in their sport. These include things like the team’s health, the percentage of the team that returns, the strength of opposing team’s, etc. While all of these factors are key ingredients to a [...]
Partially thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, exercise equipment for the home has been flying off the shelves. Some of the more popular items (if you can afford them) are the Peloton bike or treadmill, the Mirror home workout system and the Tonal smart home gym. Two things that separate the [...]
The term “Destination Addiction” was coined by British psychologist Robert Holden about a decade ago. I’m going to paraphrase his definition here: It is the belief that you will find happiness in the next place, partner, job, or the future. You are convinced that happiness is somewhere else and it [...]
One of these mindsets is associated with growth and contentment and the other is usually linked to underachievement and dissatisfaction. I’m guessing that most of you, after reading that last sentence, have a good idea which one is associated with which. A majority of people think they have a Victor [...]
For nearly a decade I have ended the year writing a blog about the pitfalls of New Year’s resolutions. I have offered suggestions for ways to improve your chances of having success if you make them and talked about the mechanics of why I prefer goals to resolutions. This year [...]
Last year, on Thanksgiving Day, I wrote about the relative ease of giving thanks and how most people routinely express their gratitude for something each year on Thanksgiving Day. As a result, my focus was on the importance of being thankful, and expressing your gratitude on the other 364 days [...]
Pleasure without happiness only serves to cover the empty hole inside of you. The longer this goes on, the bigger the hole becomes and the more pleasure you need to cover up that hole to keep from falling into it. Holes come in a wide variety of forms such as [...]
If you are looking for financial investment advice, you are in the wrong place. If you are looking for some key attributes of those most likely to thrive, ones that may help you attain more solid footing than most once the pandemic ends, please read on. How you view the [...]
The first one originally appeared here in November of 2011. Please take note, that now nearly all college football teams use many of the things Chip Kelly was called reckless for doing at the time I wrote this article. You can read the full story here. The second article was published [...]