How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. That’s the answer. The question is whether you actually believe it. Perhaps think of the biggest problem you are facing, and you may be staring at the elephant you need to eat, overwhelmed by how massive it is, convinced there’s no way you can…
Whilst lessons in this course have discussed the benefits of the compounding effect, of consistency and doing what you know you need to do, when people get stuck, they are often stuck because they are doing the wrong things, or things that don’t really matter. If you’re busy, working really hard, and you’re exhausted at…
Every living thing on the planet moves toward reward and away from punishment. Bacteria do it. Animals do it. You do it. It’s not complicated. It’s not sophisticated. It’s the most basic operating principle in all of biology: seek pleasure, avoid pain, move toward what helps you, move away from what hurts you. Charlie Munger…
That cup of tea tastes so much better after you’ve been out in the cold and wet for an hour. Not because you made it differently. Not because the tea changed. You changed. You went from freezing to warm, from miserable to comfortable, and now every sip feels like a small miracle. That’s your brain…
A few years ago, out of the blue, I received two written complaints about my practice. Generally, I have a complaint rate of about one in every four thousand consultations. It doesn’t seem like a large amount, and what’s important is that neither of these complaints were about misdiagnosis, medical error, or clinical mistakes. The…
Two concepts. Two words. And between them, they explain more about long-term success than almost anything else in this material. Consistency is the brick-by-brick effort that builds something worth having. Compounding is the growth you get for free if you stay consistent long enough. Separately, they’re both powerful. Together, they’re the closest thing to a…
You know what you need to do. You’ve probably known for a while now. Maybe it’s the career change you keep talking about, the relationship you need to end, the health problem you’re ignoring, or the business you’ve been “planning” for three years. You’ve read the books, watched the videos, made the plans. You’ve got…
I wrote an article way back in 2012 about the good habits you need to develop to build the inertia for change. All of these habits are common sense, you may think. We’ve already talked about common sense earlier in our courses, and the lack of it is not doing the obvious, even when it’s…
You’re looking to make the big move. The one decision that changes everything. The perfect plan that guarantees success. Here’s a fact: for most of us, it doesn’t exist. Here’s what does exist: chaos. Not the panic kind, not the mess kind. The mathematical kind. The kind that means small changes in what you do…
There’s a well-worn path most people take through life. It’s gentle. It’s easy. It’s crowded with everyone else who’s chosen comfort over effort, safety over risk, acceptance over achievement. It’s called the Path of Least Resistance, and it will almost always lead you to an average destination. Not terrible. Not great. Just average. And if…