#90 – What can you see when you change your glasses?If turning the lights off allows us to see what's truly there, sometimes all we need is a change of perspective.Yesterday, a $30K strategic advisory deal that had already been signed by the client f...
#89 – What in your life wants to be seen?You can't see anything real in daylight; you can only see what you want to see. When you turn the lights off in the night, you see what wants to be seen.Malidoma SoméWhen things don't go as you planned, what d...
#88 – When it's time to ask for money, whom do you advocate for?Some people advocate for themselves when asking for money for the goods or services they provide.They know the worth of the products or services they offer, and charge accordingly. ...
#87 – How to balance trust with working toward your future?One could argue, if you truly trusted, why work toward your future?That’s the wrong question.Because trust isn’t magical thinking or "hopium," as we discussed yesterday.What are the right que...
#86 – How do you know it's trust and not "futurizing"?Whenever we're attached to a potential outcome, we're not living in the present.I call that "futurizing," and it's as dangerous as what some people call "hopium."Hopium could be described as an ir...
#84 – Who wants you to 'start with why?'When I arrived in New York in October of 2014, most people I met were curious about what had brought me there from Madrid, my home city."What's your why?," they'd ask.I kept hearing this question everywhere: at...
#83 – Goals and success: whose goals are you pursuing?Your Ego's goals may feel like yours, but did you set them?How many times do we find ourselves living in autopilot, wanting what others want, striving for what others strive for, only to wake up a...
#82 – Who measures your success?There's a difference between "being successful" and "succeeding" at something.While some people use both expressions interchangeably, I want to argue that they aren't. The former makes of success an identity, while the...
#81 – How much longer are you willing to be only half alive?Did you postpone your dreams because your Ego had other plans?I did. For years.I wanted to be a writer. Write was all I wanted to do. But I listened to the wrong voices in my head – all the...
#80 – Who taught us shame?Feeling shame is pre-programmed in us. It may be time to reset our brain.Some say shame serves a societal purpose: to keep our behavior within the norms of the society we live in.In reality, shame has an Ego purpose: if I be...