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5 Traits My Most Successful Entrepreneur Friends Have in Common

I’ve worked closely with entrepreneurs for over two decades.

In entrepreneurial organizations and in my inner circle, I’ve seen the entrepreneurial journey. From start to success, people who’ve built and sold high cash flow businesses have five traits in common.

The irony is, what makes them accomplished are not the things talked about after the fact in the media. My observations match the results in a book called “Power: Why Some People Have it and Why Some People Don’t” — the traits they...

8 Ways Kobe Bryant’s Death Inspires Life

Kobe Bryant’s death inspires us to not only appreciate every moment, but to learn from the life he led off the court.

I grew up a Lakers fan, watching Magic and Kareem win championships, but Kobe was one of us. So when Magic retired in 1996 and Kobe started playing, it was like a passing of the guard to my generation.

When I returned to LA after graduating college in 2000, the Lakers were in their first NBA finals since 1988. I went to the Staples Center to watch the Lakers win their first...

Financial Advice if You’re Struggling to Make Ends Meet

Helping the poor isn’t profitable.

I know what it’s like to live paycheck-to-paycheck, and I know what it’s like to give professional financial advice.

You see, there are three ways anyone can receive financial advice:

A broker – Advice from someone who makes money regardless if you do. They sell you products like insurance, stocks, and mutual funds. A financial advisor – Advice from anyone (with or without credentials.) For instance, marketers getting kickbacks from prestigious brokers. A...

Pre-Meditation: Learn These Skills To Make ANY Meditation Stick

The majority of people fail to make meditation practice stick when they try it for the first time. I don’t blame them, there’s nothing easy about sitting still when you’re an expert at distraction.

Look at it like this:

Meditation is like sports. There are many types of meditations like there are many types of sports. You might be a complete novice or a pro. But you can’t expect to be any good without learning the basics.

Meditation is the same.

You can’t expect to sit down your first time...

Intro to Intrapreneurship: An Alternate Path to Entrepreneurship with Steady Income

The media loves to glamorize entrepreneurs. Everywhere you look, there’s an entrepreneur talking about how they…

“Left their corporate job”

“Wanted to be their own boss”

“Were tired of working for the man”

“Travel the world while earning passive income”

“Made millions doing something so easy anyone can do it”

I get the allure, but being an entrepreneur doesn’t make you any better than someone who’s not. In fact, entrepreneurs go through such ups and downs that they have higher than average...

Illestrating “Bling”: An Interview with the Artist

No doubt that one great work of art can teach us more than reading a hundred books.

Since art promotes visual thinking, increasing engagement, and is straight-up fun, it was a no-brainer to add custom pics to Bling. I call the art Illestrations, cause they are dope representations of the most important messages in Bling I want to stick in your conscious.

Now that the book is launched, I’ve sat down with my illustrator, Ashley Getty, to let her explain the artistic process and inspire you to ...

How to Trust Your Gut

Last year I wrote a book intended to generate business for Flow. When I finished, I had an “oh shit” moment — the book had nothing to do with Flow and wouldn’t accomplish the goal of driving business to the company.

I had spent three days in Costa Rica writing in flow state, and wound up writing about making a social impact in a book called Juice. My gut told me the book was the right move, but my head said I still needed content for Flow. So after-the-fact, I wrote three more chapters and...

Design An Ill Chill Meditation Space (Plus An Inside Look at Mine)

Every morning I wake up at 5 AM, put on my slippers, get out of bed, and walk down a flight of stairs to my basement.

In the corner of the room, I see my meditation area with a space heater blazing. I slide off my slippers to step into my sacred space barefoot. I kneel down in front of a small table, and touch a statue of Ganesh with my right hand ring finger and then touch the center of my forehead, and then join both palms together with fingers pointing upwards, and ask for blessings. Then...

How Does Meditation Help Athletes?

More professional athletes are using meditation to sharpen their mental edge.

Why?

Our understanding of top performance is transforming. What used to be all about lifting and nutrition is now adopting a mental health approach. As science discovers more about how the body works better when the mind is at its peak, then the shift in sports is a no-brainer.

The bottom line is major league games are 99% mental.

Any pro player who meditates will have the mental skills to take their game to the...

What’s Beef? 20 Vegan Rappers in 2019

OG vegan rappers like KRS-One, Russell Simmons, and Jermaine Dupri believe veganism is straight up the path to enlightenment. They joined a consciousness movement I call the High Vibe Tribe — a subculture of emerging vegan hip hop artists, leaders, and citizens dedicated to doing the right thing for the right reasons. Besides dropping bars about going green, their mic is committed to taking action. These 20 vegan rappers are the real MCs because they spit enlightenment and are changing the...