Building Your House Brick by Brick
How long would you have the patience to prepare before you saw any results? I recently spent 10 days in the Dominican Republic doing...
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The Two Most Important Things You Can Control
What can we really control in life? Individually, we can’t control the economy, the weather, the performance of our favorite sports team,...
8 Steps for Breaking Through Any Obstacle
This weekend I came across a video of kids breaking through wooden boards with their hands. I was curious about the technique that these...
Stretch! 3 Ways to Do More With What You Have
The teacher stopped the presentation and asked for a volunteer from the class. A young lady was the first to raise her hand and was...
Playing the Game
This is another awesome cartoon from Gavin Than at ZenPencils.com. Check out his site, it is awesome! Share this: Tweet Share on Tumblr...
You Were Born for This!
Why are you here? Have you ever stopped to wonder? Some would have you believe that you are merely here because of a reaction between two...
The Inevitable Battle Within
Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an African-American track and field athlete who became a sports legend during the Berlin Olympics in 1936....
There’s Magic In the Struggle
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Why Are Amnesiacs More Successful?
New York Jets. Both quarterbacks played horribly on Sunday, to the extent that Sanchez was benched and Lindley has been deemed the worst...
Is Your Life One of Passive Diffusion or Active Transport?
Diffusion happens without any real effort. The basic principle is this: If there is more of one kind of molecule in one area and less in...
Disaster, Determination and a World Record
One morning they arrived to find the schoolhouse engulfed in flames. They dragged the unconscious little boy out of the flaming building...
The Toothpaste Principle of Perseverance
Every morning this ritual is repeated and I think to myself that there is no way any more toothpaste could be in that wrinkled up tube....
Do it Scared!
I once heard a true story of a woman who was trapped in a burning building on the 80th floor. She had an intensive fear of heights and...
Could You Change If You Wanted To?
Is change good or bad? When you think about it, life is all about making changes. Self-improvement is nothing more than a string of small...
Increase Your Willpower!
Editor’s note: This is a great post I found from Ian Newby-Clark of My Bad Habits. “Control yourself!” We all say it, mostly to...
Entropy: The Silent Killer of Your Success
Okay, okay, I know that nobody wants to read about Thermodynamics on a Monday but bear with me for a second because it applies to all of...
“Future You” – The Reason We Order Big Macs
A few years ago McDonald’s introduced it’s health-conscious menu with salads and fruit included. Amazingly, Big Mac and french fry sales...
“Why Did I Do That?” – Beware of Ego-Depletion
Lately I have been reading a lot of books about willpower and habit formation. I have been fascinated by some of the new studies...
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