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Self-Improvement

The World Will Never Quit Poking You

(photo: @kylejeffreys)

Ever feel like the universe has a personal vendetta against you? Like you’re the star of some cosmic practical joke where every time you think you’re finally catching a break, life decides to pull the rug out from under you? Yeah, welcome to the club.

Picture this: You wake up feeling somewhat optimistic. Today’s the day you’ll finally get ahead, right? Wrong. Your car decides it’s the perfect moment to impersonate a very expensive paperweight. You drag yourself to work, already feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders, only to be greeted by a boss who seems to have a Ph.D. in nitpicking. By the time you get home, your partner’s about as warm and receptive as a brick wall.

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Self-Improvement

How to Change Your Life by Starting Small

We’ve all dreamt of drastic life changes: mastering a new language, running a marathon, or finally writing that novel. But often, these ambitions get buried under the weight of feeling overwhelmed. What if the secret to transformation wasn’t a dramatic overhaul, but a series of tiny tweaks? The truth is, “small changes can be the building blocks of a big revolution.”

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Self-Improvement

Seek Discomfort

In a world that often prioritizes comfort and convenience, the idea of deliberately seeking discomfort might seem counterintuitive. Yet, it is within this very act of embracing challenges and stepping outside our comfort zones that the potential for personal growth, resilience, and true fulfillment lies.

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Life Advice

The Daily Man-Up

With LESS than 2 month to welcome 2024, there are two scenarios on how you can get ready for the new year:

Scenario 1: you wait until January 1st to start thinking about what you want to achieve in the next 365 days. You try to figure out your training and nutrition plans, the habits and routines you need to implement to be successful. You try to figure all out in just one day. You tell yourself “I’m starting on January 1st!”. In the meantime you have the perfect excuse to let yourself go.

Scenario 2: TODAY you start thinking and planning for 2024. You start asking yourself what will drive you in 2024, and why? You start working on a plan that will help you achieve your goal. You start implementing the right habits, you start eliminating the wrong ones. You don’t wait. You start.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about the holidays and enjoying the extra treats and beers with friends and family. All I’m saying is: ?Why wait until January 1st to start thinking about how you are going to keep building your own best version? Get ready today. Prepare yourself today . Don’t wait a month until you start figuring these things out.

Get Clear on what you are doing in 2024. Start working on your routine, your self-discipline, your goals..so when January 1st hits…you are ready to start, you don’t get hit with any surprises, you are a well-oiled machine.

Don’t wait until January 1st to wake up. Start TODAY

Life Advice

Please stop telling yourself “it will all change tomorrow” because it won’t and you know it…

You’re not just going to wake up as a productive supersoldier.

You have to start implementing seemingly small changes today, and building on them every day or every week.

Our bodies and minds don’t like dramatic change of any kind, so you need to take small steps in the right direction.

Get up 15 minutes earlier than usual, not 3 hours.

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8 Uncomfortable Lessons That We All Need To Learn

1. Your self-love must be stronger than your desire to be loved

If you’re not happy now, there’s no amount of followers, positive social media comments, or Instagram likes that will change that. External validation isn’t happiness – it’s a hamster wheel. Validation is an inside job. The most convincing sign that someone is truly living their “best life”, is their lack of desire to show the world that they’re living their best life. Your “best life” won’t seek external validation, but insecurity continually will.

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A Massively Overlooked Reason For Failure And Lack Of Achievement

(photo: @kylo8)

When I think of all the things that are responsible for lack of achievement and abject failure, I can point the finger at a lot of things.

Inability to manage time. Inability to plan. Not having the right set of skills. A ton of things.

But there’s something a lot of people don’t consider. And that is the sheer amount of enjoyment and novelty available at our fingertips. I don’t even mean from a distraction sense (though it very well could be), I mean from a perspective of absolute satiation.

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What Is Self Discipline And How To Build More Of It

What Is Self Discipline

Self-discipline means that you do the things that you know are right or beneficial, even if they’re difficult. But what does that really mean? What does that actually look like?

People often associate self-discipline with diet and exercise, but it goes beyond that. Yes, staying active and eating clean in our current culture takes discipline, but being a self-disciplined person goes way beyond that.

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How to Be a Charming Storyteller

(Photo by Andrea Piacquadio)

Storytelling has been a cherished art form for thousands of years. When done right, it can win an entire group over and have a girl hanging onto your every word. Here are some of the positive effects:

  • Make her smile or laugh so she feels comfortable around you.
  • Create attraction by showing her interesting qualities or values about yourself.
  • Connect with her on a personal level and cut through small talk.
  • Encourage her to open up to you.
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