My favorite coffee mug has an octopus on the outside, and inside the rim, where a right-handed person will see it every time he takes a sip, is the phrase, “Seize the day.” When people reach milestone ages—usually decade changes (30, 40, 50, 110)—it’s often a time of deep reflection, and for many people a…
Do you want to captivate an audience or group every time you speak? Let’s break into the secrets of using your energy and voice to be a Superstar Speaker! What’s Your Gut Telling You? First, ask yourself: How can your nervous energy—those butterflies in your stomach—become your best ally on stage? Let’s dive into some…
How can someone go from extremely humble beginnings to an extraordinary life? I’m going to go into exactly what I did to manage just that, but I’ll warn you right out the gate: It may not be the cozy advice you’re hoping for. It is a simple yet profound strategy that can elevate every aspect…
Change yourself, change your life. Better yet: Unleash yourself, love your life. People who know me in person are sometimes surprised to learn that I have long struggled with depression and with feelings of negative self worth. Tall, good-looking, worldly, gregarious, funny, insightful, compassionate, eloquent, MC, firedance-in-a-loincloth…and yet also somehow sure that I am wholly…
Don’t let anybody tell you you’re anything but awesome. Especially yourself. You are what you eat. And while the sea slug-looking physical part of your brain eats glucose, your higher level intellectual brain eats words and ideas, because the same is true there: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! Stop feeding it shit. One of the…
December 31st of last year, I got my walking papers. I am, for the first time in more than two decades—and over ten and a half years in internet advertising—unemployed. And for the first time ever: laid off. It reminded me of an experience I had about twenty years ago, where the owner of the…
“Regret for what you never tried weighs heaviest of all.” Never give up on yourself. You. Will. Fail. You will fall—get back up! Do it differently. Get better. Never stop striving. Never stop. Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never. Boy, I was feeling low. Nothing I was writing or doing seemed to…
Getting older sucks, but it sure beats the alternative. Funny thing about getting older: It’s one thing that you absolutely must earn. Oh my god, I’m old! (Old!) Is it too late for me to do something new?! Funny thing about age: There’s always someone even older looking at you worrying and they’re laughing, “Oh,…
“Learn from your mistakes.” It’s an important adage and a timeless lesson. It is in fact a lesson within a lesson: Mistakes are the most important part of learning. Only by attempting and failing do we make the knowledge part of us, create the neural pathways that allow us to improve and expand. I’m going…
What if you weren’t competing with younger, better-looking people for younger audiences, because you’re not targeting that audience in the first place? What if you who are reading this aren’t an anomaly? What if there are other people in your same stage of life looking through scads of stories of young entrepreneurs and feeling like…
