“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard I’ve accomplished many big goals over the past few years. Live overseas? Did it. Graduate with a master’s degree? I crossed that off recently too. When I set my mind to a goal, I put in a lot of time and effort to […]
7 Simple Ways to Live a Positive, More Fulfilling Life
The journey to building a better life seems never-ending. We’re all busy working hard, earning money, pursuing our goals and trying to build our lives into what we want. Generally speaking, we think the people who are living the good life are those who have it all – money, success, looks, a big car and […]
How to Get Passionate About Boring Tasks
If you want to learn a foreign language, you need to spend hours memorizing vocabulary and grammar. To get into great shape, you need to perform repetitive exercises on a regular basis. I’ve written about the importance of doing boring things before, but that lesson was highlighted to me a few weeks ago at the […]
Why Having Faith in Yourself is so Damn Important
Wherever you go in life, whatever you want to do, you must have faith in yourself. This is not the same thing as believing in yourself – faith means a lot more than that. Belief is an opinion or judgment in which a person is fully persuaded based upon some reason or piece of information. […]
50 Things Really Smart People Do All the Time
What does it mean to be smart? You could quantify it as a number on an IQ chart. Or perhaps it comes from that diploma from a fancy university. But IQ tests are fundamentally flawed according to many researchers. They don’t take into account the various ways people can be smart. And to be honest, […]
A Simple Mindshift for Explosive Change
*Note: This is a guest post by Razwana Wahid. The suspense was killing me. The build up had been happening for weeks. This was marketing genius. Feverishly salivating over every email I opened leading up to the big day, I’d made my decision before the offer had even landed in my inbox. I’d be flying […]
Spend Less, Travel More eBook is Released!
What do you think of when you hear the word “travel”? Perhaps you see yourself lying on a beach in the Caribbean or admiring the Pyramids of Egypt. When you let your mind wander, you can imagine yourself having dream vacations all over the world. But when you come back to reality, you realize that […]