Pivoting Back to My Essential Core
Inspired by my newest role models, I found myself following them too strictly. In the process, I strayed from my…
How I Overcame The Guilt of Leaving My Old Career
Before my first reinvention, I feared giving up on my career progress, experiences, and education. However, it turns out the…
How a $200K Debt Empowered Me to Learn for Fun
Going to university was very expensive. Knowing I would have to pay back the huge loans drove and empowered me…
How I Built a Nice Collection of Aging Problems
When it comes to email, I designed a system to collect and put problems on hold without solving them. In…
Where My New Ideas Come From
I started writing so that I could document and publish old ideas, however, what I discovered was that writing is…
Why You Need to Pay Yourself First Every Day
Robert Kiyosaki teaches us to pay ourselves first every paycheck by saving 10% off the top. Upon reflection, it turns…
What Success Cannot Teach Us
A line from Neil Gaiman's MasterClass helped me realize that only in failure can we learn what success fails to…
How to Attract the Opportunities You Want
Recently, I realized that doing what I love consistently and regularly over a long period of time has attracted some…
Circumstances Shape Us, For Better and For Worse
While listening to the book, Power Broker by Robert Caro, I discovered that we respond to and grow with our…
How I Make My Foresight Just as Clear as Hindsight
For many years now, I have been applying the clear lenses of hindsight to my foresight. This shift has allowed…
How I Grew My Home to 30,000 Square Feet
One an apartment tour the other day, I learned a powerful lesson from the leasing agent that helped me upgrade…
My Sneaky Limiting Beliefs to Reinvention
Reflecting on past limiting beliefs, I discovered that sometimes they come back in different forms. They are harder to recognize…
The Moment I Went From Amateur to Pro
In Atomic Habits by James Clear, he mentions the difference between an amateur and a pro. Reflecting on my last…
How Google Maps Explains Goal Clarity and Mapping
Coaching people has taught me clarity is key to goal success, however, google maps taught me how clear I really…
How I Generate My Own Motivation
Coaching over 3,000 people has taught me significant lesson - motivation isn't something we need in order to get started.…
My Daily Practice of Self-Discovery
While responding to an email I had a breakthrough about my daily writing practice. Every day, by creating space and…
Less is More When it Comes to Driving Innovation
In locked down Ireland, I learned that pandemics and restrictions can actually be the drivers of reinvention and innovation for…
Why I Want to Read 50 Books per Year
Today I thought about what I ultimately want out of my annual reading goals. I always focused on quantity of…
What Happens When We Assume a New Identity
While speaking with one of my UPenn students today, I discovered what it means to assume a new identity and…
The Case for Reading in the Morning and How to Start Right Away
After a conversation with a friend about reading in the morning, I thought about what I get from doing it…
Your Old Kindle Highlights are the Key to Your Next Breakthrough Idea
Since 2010, I have captured highlights from Kindle books I've read. I've never gone back to review them until recently.…
The Difference Between Writing & Getting Published
I used to think that being a great writer leads to becoming a best selling author. Then I realized that…
How Habit Streaks Unlock Breakthroughs
One of the most effective ways of unlocking breakthroughs in my life has been through commitment and consistency. Just about…
Why I Love Reruns So Much
Years ago I discovered that what I read matters more than how much I read. In 2019, I realized that…