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February 22, 2020
Why Not You?
Don’t answer that! It’s a stupidly easy question to answer. I don’t have the money. I don’t have the resources. I don’t have the talent. I don’t have what they have. It’s stupidly easy to see the stupid amount of roadblocks between us and success. We are naturally negative creatures with built-in psychological mechanisms that […]
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February 13, 2020
Maintaining Mediocrity
A good friend at my recent book signing looked down at the five books I had on display at the signing table and asked, “How the hell do you find time to do this on top of working full-time and everything else you have going on?” I really hadn’t thought about it like this and […]
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February 4, 2020
Everything Hurts
I moved back to Pittsburgh from Los Angeles in 2017. My heart was broken and so was my bank account. The only thing that I seemed to be able to get myself to do was go to the gym. I had belonged to LA Fitness when I lived in California and switched my membership over […]
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September 16, 2019
“Therefore I Tell You…”
Once you’ve read several different books or articles on success or watched different speakers teach on the subject of attaining that illusive wonder called, success, you start to notice common threads in what is being said or written. One common thing that I’ve noticed is to be thankful now for things that haven’t even happened […]
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September 6, 2019
Warrior
I’ve taken some time away from writing recently. I’ve had a lot happening this summer from moving in with my girlfriend to starting a new job to going back to grad school to leaving that new job because I hated it… Lots of things going on. I’ve also been trying to realign my focus and […]
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July 18, 2019
100 Good Things
My issue is that I focus on the one bad thing when there are at least one-hundred good things. My mind stretches toward perfection, a deep yearning for something this world does not contain. There is pain, suffering, and sorrow. There is not ONLY pain, suffering, and sorrow. There is also joy, peace, rest, excitement, and fulfillment. My focus easily […]
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July 9, 2019
Conditionally Happy
I’ll be happy if all of the conditions of my life meet the standard I’ve set in order to allow myself the luxury of feeling happy. If the bills have all been paid and I have money left over, if I have the job I love and don’t hate, if I’m in relationship with the […]
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June 8, 2019
The Wins We’re Worthy Of
I always notice that the posts that get the most likes on almost any social media platform are the ones where there’s a win involved. What do I mean by a win? Just a positive life experience. A good move in a good direction. People get pumped when they see something good happening in someone’s […]
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May 5, 2019
Book Release 2019
It’s pretty hard to believe that I’m coming up on another book release. The craziest part is that it’s at Barnes & Noble. I always knew I’d write at least one book because my life has been so damn crazy. What I didn’t expect was to have written five books within four years. And having […]
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April 14, 2019
Trust?
This is not something I am particularly good at. I’m very weak here actually. I definitely would not teach a class on being a better truster. Trust is one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried doing. What goes on in my head does not match reality at all. And I believe all of it. […]
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