“What do you want most in life?“ Anytime a client tells me they want to “focus on what really matters in life” and “stop wasting so much time,” I ask them that question. If they can’t tell me what they want in the distant future, they can at least tell me what they want right …
Postscript— I’ve thought many times about taking this article down. It’s true that I like these books, and reading was indeed a very important part of my process of transfomation, yet… One thing I learned from nearly two decades of reading is that pouring through books is of little value to you, relative to taking …
The 1% aren’t winning. I say it over and over again in my work, but it’s a tough pill for most people to swallow. Intellectually, we can understand that money is not the same as happiness. But on some basic level we are all taught to equate financial success with life success. No matter what …
Everyone has an opinion on surviving a recession. You remember all those terrible news spots and articles in 2008: “Everyone should own a liquor store, downturns never affect them!” “You should work in healthcare. Even broke people get sick!” “Just start a dropshipping company and sell fake purses. It always works!” And underlying all that …
Everyone deals with anxiety—to one degree or another. Some of us squash it down, some of us develop coping strategies, but nonetheless all of us know that gnawing feeling in the pit of our stomachs. That sense that things could go wrong. It’s exhausting. It takes away from the quality of your work, and more …
Yesterday, my editor wrote me, “Great week for the Blades Bandwagon!!” It was a great week. In fact, it was an incredible week. We launched the Trump book. We had two great placements in the New York Times and American Spectator, and we have ridiculous interest in the book. Yet, until he emailed me, I hadn’t thought …
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I haven’t written this week because I’ve been too busy writing. A week ago I got swept up in an idea for a book and I’ve been absorbed ever since. It’s quite an amazing experience to me. You know what it feels like when you become so absorbed in an activity that hours might pass by …
Imagine after years of striving you finally move into your dream home. How amazing would you feel? What about if you made a ton of money all in one go, like winning the lottery. How happy would you be? If you’re like my cousin’s friend, you’ll be just as miserable as you were before. Why? It’s …
My buddy emailed to tell me that storm Kayla was coming through Colorado so I checked the snow report— “Looking ahead, we’ll see a strong storm hit Colorado on Saturday…very heavy snow on Saturday afternoon and Saturday night with double digit (10+ inch) snow totals…” Woo-hoo!!!! That’s how I feel, especially given I postponed my trip …
These last two weeks in Vail I’m getting perspective, which for us hard-charging types is not easy to do. In the last two weeks, I’ve had friends who— One banker has had an even bigger year than last year, which was by far his biggest year ever. Rather than celebrating, he’s worried about how he will replicate …
Most of my life I’ve been crippled with fear. Fortunately it has mostly been the fear of failing to live the most amazing life I can imagine, and it has only crippled me in doing things I don’t want to do. Use Your Fear In our society fear is often seen negatively, when in fact it is our savior. Like …
Just for a moment, put down whatever you are doing, and sit back. You can keep your eyes open if you like or you can relax and close your eyes. Just imagine your life some time out in the future; how do you dream it to be? Really…In your wildest dreams, how do you imagine …
I believe you can do what you want. I believe that if you are willing to keep dreaming and keep taking powerful action you can create the career and life you truly want. I believe that most of what holds us back is inside our minds. What do you believe? What do you believe is possible …
There is no limit to how far I will go to get what I want. I’ve worked seven days a week since high school, and I imagine I will until the day they carry me out in a box. It’s not work to me. Doing the things that matter to me. Driving my life. Making my life …
Do you ever have instances when: You have a great meeting with someone, they are really keen to get together again, but you have trouble scheduling a follow up? People get busy. We all have a lot of things going on, and you just don’t become a priority to that other person. How might you go …
Like the W Hotel, I offer my clients whatever, whenever. I don’t charge by the hour, I work on retainer so I am always available to my clients to do whatever I can, whenever they need me. So when my phone rang at 12.30am last Tuesday I wasn’t surprised to see it was one of my …
What’s so amazing about this speech is it brings together the best of western science with eastern spiritual tradition. A problem many people face on spirituality and consciousness is it is too far off the track. It’s one thing to hear the Dalai Lama speak of life and purpose and spiritual experience, yet few of …
sitting down to write is hard but I do it because it gets me what I want. writing is like running. even for people who love to run the first 10 minutes of the run might suck. but, by continuing to run, they find their rhythm, they get into their zone, and like Forrest Gump …