#393 – What attracts you from the other side of "I quit?"To the exhausted (or afraid) mind, "I quit" can be like a Caribbean island with all-day mojitos and turquoise waters where joy and freedom live. But is it true?During my last semester at N...
#392 – How do shame and guilt contribute to your prosperity?They don't––obvi. If they did, we'd all be swimming in gold coins. So, why do we keep allowing the Ghost of Misplaced Shame & Guilt (GoMSG) to determine our actions?It all comes dow...
#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...