My Absolute Favourite Books of 2026

Hello Everyone,Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It's been a while since I last sent a newsletter out but better late than never. Below you'll find my favourite books of 2026.Lincoln’s Melancholy by Joshua Wolf ShenkThis was my favourite book of...

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Dec 26, 2025
The power broker to blame for all of YOUR problems.

Positive Thinking is the realm of charlatans, fortune tellers, and astrologists.Or so I thought for most of my life.In my mind, Positive Thinking was the equivalent of someone staring at a garden full of weeds and chanting “There are no weeds, there...

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Jan 27, 2025
The Real World Value of Video Games

The idea of this newsletter is simple: If we approached life like we did video games, we’d be where we want in life.So here are five concepts from Video Games that you should utilise in your everyday life.—Concept #1: Be Willing to Grind It Out.This...

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May 05, 2024
Vision Ain't Enough

"Well-being is realised by small steps, but is truly no small thing." - Zeno of Citium, Founder of Stoicism.Anytime we find something that the great minds of the past and present agree on, we should take time to reflect on it.What Zeno was talking ab...

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Apr 28, 2024
Once More Into The Fray...

On 10 days notice, Alexander Volkanovski - the UFC Featherweight Champion at the time - accepted a rematch to fight up a weight class for the UFC Lightweight Belt.In their first fight, Volkanovski had lost a close decision to Islam Makhachev, who had...

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Apr 21, 2024
Zachariah 2.0 – First Milestone

I’m over 25 days into my plan. In terms of the outcomes I went in seeking, things are looking good. I’m making progress on all objectives – and seeing progress in the indirect areas that I was hoping for.  I’m keeping track of every objective, but ra...

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Sep 16, 2023
How I Read Non-Fiction.

This blog post covers my reading strategy acquired through years of practice. I’ve always tried to get the most that I can out of what I read – especially when related to non-fiction books. Whether it be a skill-based personal development book or a b...

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Sep 02, 2023
Zachariah 2.0 – The Strategies

This is the third post in in my explaining Zachariah 2.0 Series. This one I’d wager is the most useful of the lot. I’m going to explore all the strategies I’m planning on using to increase my odds of success. Steal whatever you find useful. INDEX CAR...

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Aug 27, 2023
Zachariah 2.0 – The Objections.

This is part 2 in my 3 part series on my 100 day personal development plan. The purpose of this post is to address the objections that – rightfully – are raised about the challenge. In fact, I actually crowdsourced objections from people I shared ten...

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Aug 27, 2023
Zachariah 2.0 – The Objectives

For those of you who receive my newsletter, earlier this week I shared that I was starting a new program of personal development. It involves 20 objectives which will be explored here. This is part 1 in my 3 part series exploring the challenge. Goals...

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Aug 27, 2023
Rapid Fire Hacks

There are few things I enjoy more than reading something and testing it. Through this process, I have built up an arsenal of techniques, tactics and strategies that I routinely use to make things easier.  There are plenty of other techniques that I h...

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Sep 09, 2021
Killing it with Kagan: Week Two.

Another week of the experiment down. It’s going better than I expected and really interesting to see how the things combine together and compound. Looking forward to the weeks ahead. My focus since I had a busy week ahead with University was on thing...

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Sep 04, 2021
Killing it with Kagan: Week one.

My first week of living by Noah Kagan’s advice has drawn to an end. I decided to start small with my testing – and so far, so good. The key things that I tested were: Morning Routine Nightly Note-Cards Following Through Goal-setting. Action-biased. —...

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Aug 28, 2021
Killing it with Kagan: My New Experiment.

I am going to be doing a new self-experiment / challenge that I will be tracking here on the blog. Eventually, I might move the content to a new site, but for now It will all be recorded on here. What’s the experiment? For the next 100 days (I’ll exp...

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Aug 21, 2021
Fast to Decide, Slow to Change

Henry Ford is one of the most interesting figures in modern history. He managed to rise himself from illiteracy, poverty and ignorance in the span of ten years, and within twenty-five years had become one of the most successful businessmen in history...

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May 01, 2020