Let’s talk about the fundamentals of improvement. Improvement is simply a change in state over time where the finishing state is better than the original state. In order to quantify any type of progress or improvement, you need to be clear on how things used to be and how they are now to draw a fair comparison. It’s the difference between those two states that serves as your evidence that something changed, and ideally, that the change led to better results.

Growth follows the same principle. To grow requires that you have a previous capacity that has expanded to be able to handle more, a previous limitation that has been defeated to no longer be so restrictive, or a previous obstacle that has been overcome to reveal new possibilities. 

But these changes don’t happen on their own. No matter the form, in order to achieve growth something must happen that interrupts the way that things are currently going to steer it in a new direction.

With that in mind, there’s one condition that is required for growth - Challenge. Challenge and growth work as a cause and effect relationship. Challenge A leads to Growth A, and Challenge B leads to Growth B. No matter what, you’re going to be facing challenges and therefore, you’re always growing. The opportunity lies in our ability to choose our challenges so that we can dictate the direction of our growth.

This concept is a cornerstone philosophy in what is now known as ‘deliberate practice’. If you want to improve at anything, you must be pushed to perform just beyond your comfort level. What this does is it cultivates a necessity that you must respond to, causing you to develop skills or abilities to meet the need.

Dr. Michael Beckwith agrees, and he says “Without challenge the activation of potential doesn't happen.” That’s because when things are too routine it leads to automaticity, and things normalize and plateau.

You can’t expect to grow if you keep doing the same things. According to Albert Einstein’s definition - “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”  

So if you want to grow as a person - to get more consistent, have better habits, improve your mindset, acquire new skills - you need to take on a challenge. And particularly if you want to grow into the best, most confident, most productive, most inspired version of yourself, you might want to consider taking on the Best Self Breakthrough Challenge. It’s specifically designed to cause you to upgrade your structure and organization, your systems, and your daily habits to elite levels so that you can successfully apply everything you've learned. Should you accept the challenge, you’ll be choosing the direction of your growth and accelerate toward the best version of yourself. And all it takes is 5 minutes a day for 21 days.

Worth a try right? The challenge goes live on Monday so I highly encourage you to register for the challenge right now, before you let the moment pass you and you miss out on reaching your potential.

We’ve inherited a beautiful, magical cycle that is one day. Our bodies have evolved to experience the cycles of light and dark in a way that allows us to renew our life-force everyday. We’ve built our whole culture around this cycle where the world basically stops for a handful of hours as we all transition from one day to the next.

While days and time and all of that are just constructs that support our perception, there’s a lot of potential in it. And when you wake up in the morning it’d benefit you to think about that - “Another day, another opportunity”.

This serves as a form of intention. When you prime yourself first thing in the morning to see the possibility in the world, throughout the day you’ll find it. Another day, another opportunity. Your world conspires around your thoughts and beliefs, so why not choose to make your world a little brighter and a little more positive?

In order to build momentum for the day so that you can consistently seize everything it has to offer you, I have a few best practices. First, know that every day starts the night before. Make sure you’re prioritizing your sleep and wellness so that when you wake up, you have the energy to shape your mindset. The first moments of the day dictate the pace and cadence of how you’ll do everything else.

A second recommendation is to set yourself up for success by having a plan for the day, but not just that, one that you can do really well with. Don’t try to flood your morning, particularly your first hour with too much to do. The sooner you get behind, the sooner you stay behind and feel like you’re playing catch up.

Remember. “Another day, another opportunity.” and you can make whatever you want from it. You don’t need to keep reliving the same days with the same problems and the same issues. You can intervene, solve your problems, step up to your next level, and choose to make things different. 

Imagine if you made your prior best your new normal? I promise you it’s achievable, but only if you’re serious about making it so. And that’s something you need to consistently choose every day, but good news - another day, another opportunity!

If you want to start sustainably improving the quality of our life and make progress day after day, I have a process that will help you do it. And it addresses the one thing holding you back from tapping into it. I made a video explaining it all that you can check out here!

Okay, this is something I really battle with and I bet some part of you can relate with it. I care a lot. I really want to do something meaningful and special in the world. I want to experience things that are new, enriching, and fulfilling. And I want to discover what I’m truly capable of and witness the full extent of my potential.

Unfortunately, this desire is a double-edged sword. While on one hand it keeps me active and motivated, on the other hand it has become a bit of an obsession. If I’m not actively doing something to better myself I have a tendency to get anxious… A fear that I’m going to regret that I didn’t make the most of my time… So I find ways to occupy my time with what I’m convincing myself are “productive” things to do.

This overall topic is something called “Compulsive Productivity”. It’s being productive for the sake of feeling better about yourself rather than doing what’s actually most critical, most important, or most needed. In the short-term it keeps you busy and stimulates you so that you don’t have to be alone with your own thoughts for too long, but ultimately what it does is it robs you of the presence, mindfulness, and clarity you’re desperately seeking.

Less presence because you’re multitasking and distracted from the current moment. Less mindful because you’re too “in your head” to allow yourself to perceive the things around you. Less clarity because you prioritize the things that “kinda sorta” need to get done that are immediately or spontaneously in front of you.

Don’t get me wrong, being productive is an incredible thing and a skill to be mastered… But it must be done with intention in order for it to truly serve you. It must be balanced so that you’re coming from an inspiring, energy giving lens rather than an expiring, energy draining lens.

I’ve found that the solution is to get radical clarity, awareness, and accountability for your needs. People call this balance, I like to call it harmony because it allows the sum to be greater than the individual parts.

If you identify as a personal development junkie, with a podcast in your ear and a book on your nightstand at any given moment, trying to get your hands on everything you can to advance yourself... It’s likely that you are experiencing compulsive productivity. 

And if you want to break out of that cycle, to start getting somewhere with your life and level up your game permanently, I want to invite you to take on the 21 Day Super Habits Challenge! This process teaches you to install the core Operating System that gives you the awareness, accountability, and intention you need to master productivity and make the very most of your life.

Click here to learn more about the challenge and how it will change your life in just 5 minutes day for 21 days.

One of the craziest, most unexpected, most incredible things that happens to people is they win the lottery. It’s so rare and so special that we literally use it in expressions to talk about how lucky or perfect something is.

If you do the math, the odds you win the lottery on an average day are 1 in 292,201,338!

Pretty spectacular huh? Well what if I told you that the odds that you exist right now are even crazier than that? There’s an estimate that the odds of you coming into existence are 400 trillion to 1. In other words, the fact that you are alive is just about as likely as winning the lottery 133 million times!

To put it another way - You are a walking, talking winning lottery ticket!

It’s an absolute miracle that any single person is alive. It’s extraordinary really. Not only did you have to win the most important race of your life as a sperm cell fertilizing an egg cell, but the world needed to manifest in a way that your two parents met how they did and when they did. And the same goes for their parents and their parents. Basically human history had to have gone one way and one way only to lead up to you coming into existence.

So treat your life like the miracle it is. Make the most of it, take yourself seriously, be present and follow your heart. With the odds stacked against us like they were, none of us were supposed to be here. But we are, so let’s do something about it!

I’m grateful that our paths have crossed, however unlikely it is that they did! I’d love for them to converge even more, so I wanted to invite you again to consider joining the 21 Day Best Self Breakthrough Challenge. If you've been dedicated to your self-growth for a while now and feel ready to take things to the next level, let me show you how! We’re getting started on Monday April 3rd!

This thought isn't so much a positivity quote as it is the philosophy of someone I deeply respect. Charlie Rocket is an entertainment mogul turned philanthropist who has a deep understanding of the quantum field.

Charlie says that instead of thinking that the world is out to get you and feeling paranoia, you can believe that the world is conspiring for you by something called “pronoia”.

Your reality is made up of the way you perceive things to be around you. Your whole life changes when you realize that you can choose how you want those things to be. One of my favorite formulas comes from Jack Canfield - E + R = O. Event + Response = Outcome. As long as you are choosing your response you will always be shaping the outcome in a more favorable way.

In essence, that’s what Charlie Rocket teaches about "pronoia". When you choose to see the opportunity, possibility, and positivity in the world, that’s exactly what you get. As Wayne Dyer puts it  - “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

Just like any patterned way of thinking, the “pronoia mindset” is something that you must intentionally cultivate into your psychology. The goal is to make it the subconscious response pattern that is constantly shaping your outcomes more positively without you even being aware of it.

And the way you do that is by feeding your mind opportunities to learn this new skill. Journal about the failures or shortcomings you experienced and reframe them into blessings. Take the most challenging thing you experienced and reflect on why you’re grateful for it happening that way. This trains your mind to use a new lens to see the world through and it shifts your perception, and your reality.

Our natural state is to be paranoid. To be looking over our shoulder, wondering what might go wrong or how things might fall through. It’s our innate negativity bias making things seem worse than they are in an attempt to keep you safe. But when you tap into "pronoia", and believe that the whole world is at your fingertips, then it will be!

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We take ourselves very seriously at work and with our core responsibilities. We know that certain things require our very best and because of that we show up with more focus, concentration, and intention. But why does the buck stop there? Why don’t we take the same approach to the fun and enjoyable side of life?

We spend so much time creating optimizations and efficiencies in an attempt to maximize our productivity. We want to squeeze every bit of value we can from how we’re spending our time with the things we take seriously. Let’s commit to trying the same in the lighter things we do as well!

Every day is a masterpiece in how we’re balancing the personal and professional faces of our lives. But right now we’re treating it as if we’re either ‘on’ or ‘off’. Unfortunately this means that we resort to ‘turning-off’ for our personal time, which then impacts its quality. 

It’s sinking deeper into the couch instead of playing an engaging board game. It’s scrolling on social media during a half-conversation with someone instead of going for a walk and connecting more deeply. If we don’t intervene, we’ll tolerate spending our time with a fraction of the presence, enjoyment, and enthusiasm we could experience if we had done things differently.

So take your personal time seriously. Play seriously.

My recommendation for that is to be clear on your intentions for doing things. Keep it top of mind so that you can be more accountable to it. When the intention is to work, you are vigilant about limiting distractions. Similarly when the intention is to play, engage yourself in it. And when your intention is to rest, don’t occupy yourself with nonsense.

You’ve heard it this way before - Work hard, play hard. The edit I’d make to that is “Work serious, play serious.” You’ll be amazed to see how much more fulfilled, enriched, and inspired you’ll feel when you start making the most out of the way you spend your personal time.