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Is Following Your Passion Bad Advice?

Is following your passion dangerous?

Should you stop following your heart and just do what is practical?

There’s been a lot of talk lately about how following your passion won’t make you happy.

I both agree and disagree.

I think there’s too much focus on the surface and not enough focus on what’s beneath.

Because what is passion?

Why do wewant to find and follow our passion?

What’s truly going on here?

In the video below, I dive into 5 things that make following your passion stupid, so enjoy, and rem...

What to Do When You Can’t Figure Life Out

Don’t know what you want?

Don’t know where to go?

Don’t even know where to start?

On top of all this, you may feel like you need clarity, and you need it now.

Yet the problem isn’t what you think it is.

It’s not your job to figure your life out. It’s your job to live life, and to do the best you can in this very moment.

Doesn’t make sense, does it?

That’s why we’ll dive deeper into this, right now.

The Video

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Why You Feel Like You Aren’t Good Enough (And How to “Fix” It)

[image error] Do you ever feel like a fraud?

Or just plain not good enough to start a business?

We all do.

But it affects different people in different ways.

It depends on how much power you give to the thought of “not good enough.”

Do you let the thought blackmail you, or do you remain as the stillness behind it all?

Even famous speakers, authors andentrepreneursdon’t feel good enough all the time. They feel like frauds. They want to give up.

The mind will always be afraid, but that’s okay. It doesn’t have to st...

The Lost Art of Experimenting Your Way to Happiness

We’ve all been there.

You gobble up books, courses, blogs, seminars.

You do everything in your power to find the key to lasting happiness.

Yet it seems to allude you. You try harder. You put in more time. And you end up exhausted.

You want to give up, but you can’t, because you think this is what you have to do to live life to the fullest.

But the truth is that searching isn’t going to give you the answers you seek.

Happiness is not a technique. It cannot be given to you by someone else.

The Problem...

Afraid of Missing Out? Here’s How You Can Get More Out of Life

Are you afraid of choosing the wrong path in life?

Scared that a single wrong step could ruineverything?

When you’re afraid of missing out, you end up paralyzed.

You try to figure everything out, but you can’t, so you end up stuck in a land of anguish.

The good news is that you don’t have to figure anything out.

There’s only one thing you have to do: Follow what feels alive to you.

The Truth About Missing Out

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

― Joseph Campbell

There...

Best of 2014: 7 Powerful Articles You Might’ve Missed

One of my biggest lessons this year has been to not push things.

It’s easy to feel like you haven’t accomplished enough.

There’s always more to do. More to accomplish.

So thelesson for me has been to letthings evolvenaturally.

What matters is not howsuccessful I am, or how fast I make progress.

What matters is following my heart, and what feels magnetic.

By doing that, I’m automatically on the right path for me, because I make decisions that resonate with who I am.

Now, I’ve written a lot about this...

How to Find Your Path in Life

Finding your path is not an act of searching.

It is an act of allowing.

When you let go of what you thinkshould be, you allow what is meant to be.

While this may sound trite, it is simply the act of following your heart moment by moment.

Your purpose is already built into your being.

When you follow your heart, your inner GPS, you are nudged in the right direction.

Because what finding your path comes down to is living life to the fullest.

It comes down to following what feels alive to you, anddoing...

The Truth About Standing Out in Your Market or Niche

Having trouble discovering what makes you unique?

There seems to be so many people doing what you want to do.

You don’t want to drown in a sea of sameness, so you do nothing.

You never start.

But doing nothing is not the answer. You know that.

Deep down you know what needs to be done. But you’re held back by what ifs.

So let’s get you unstuck, shall we?

Standing Out in Your Market — The Video

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Why Doing Work You Love Takes Time

You’re doing your best.

You’ve put in the work.

You’re trying to figure this following your passion stuff out.

But things aren’t going according to plan. You look at everyone else, and they seem to be farther along.

Then you start to doubt yourself …

What if you’re not cut out for this?

What if you can’t do what you love?

What if you have to settle for a mediocre life?

It may feel like you’re going insane. But you’re not. There’s nothing wrong with where you are.

It just takes time to do what you love...

Action-Based Learning (or How to Succeed at Anything)

When you want to do something new, your first instinct is to learn everything about it.

You want to make sure you know enough.

And when you do know enough, you’re ready to start.

The problem is that you oftendon’t know when enough is enough.

You try tolearn everything,because you want to avoid mistakes.

Then you wonder why you’re stuck.

The solution then is to learn just enough to get you going.

I call this action-based learning.

Action-Based Learning — The Video

Watchthe video below, then read the re...