#391 – How long can you keep it up before you burn out?Your planning self, fueled by the Ghost of Exertion-to-Exhaustion (GoEtE), will say, "forever." It believes in endless energy––heck, it's not even aware of the concept of energy!Rest? What's that...
#390 – What pushes you under the weather?When you're on the verge of a big leap, fear may strike back, in a last attempt to stop you from entering the unknown.One of the ways it does it is by making you ill, an effort carried out by the Ghost of...
#388 – How much richer could you be if you put time in perspective?"Time is money" is stressful. But the reason you think it's true is that you're stressed to begin with.Or haven't you noticed how time passes faster on vacation than when stuck in tra...
#387 – What makes you give up on your ideas?You have a brilliant idea to make something that'll change your life. You tell all your friends and send out a newsletter. It seems real.And suddenly, "rationality" appears: that's never going to work.If yo...
#386 – Who are you: true to yourself or stuck in the past?"This is who I am"/"this is not who I am" sound like powerful, poetic statements. But what do they mean and how do they stunt your growth?In early 2023, confused by perimenopause advice f...
#385 – How is "going it alone" keeping you from wealth?If, as Jim Rohn famously said, "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with," then the money you make will also be that average.I saw this happen in real life with my fath...
#384 – What keeps you tolerating low pay?Whatever your reasons, it all comes down to one: fear.Are you listing every more than reasonable justification for your tolerating less money than you need/want?Ok, I hear you. But now, hear the part of y...
#383 – How does the need to prove keep you stuck?Let's say you're right in a specific thing, and someone says you're wrong. What do you do?Option A: I gather all the evidence, lay out my best arguments, come up with new analogies to make my poin...
#382 – How is your time management robbing you of your earning potential?And no, you don't need to work more in order to make more money. What you need is to stop giving your time away for things that don't benefit you in a clear sense.Whoa, how self...
#381 – Who appointed you keeper of right and wrong?Growing up, you learned to distinguish between two fundamental sets of things: what got you love and attention, and what got you punishment and rejection By age 13, your Ghosts were active in your mi...