How To Set Goals That Help You Succeed

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Setting goals is a way of actively seeking out your ambitions. But before you start starting to chasing your dreams, start by defining your goals.

If you do not have goals, make them up. Everything is better than having no goals at all. Even if you don’t know what you want to do with your life, you have a goal: Find out what you want to do with your life.

Some people tell me: “I’m just not an ambitious person.” No one is born with ambition or predefined goals. Ambition is a conscious decision to pursue growth in life, through experience or achievement. 

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The Biggest Sleep Hack That No One Tells You

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There can’t be such a thing as a sleep hack, right? At least, that’s what I thought for years. But if there’s anything we should hack, it’s our sleep.

On average, you sleep 7 hours and 50 minutes per night. Considering that life expectancy for countries in the Western world is about 80 years—you’ll spend 26.6 years of your life asleep.

That’s almost 1/3 of your time on this planet. And yet, we feel tired so often. Just look at the person sitting next to you at the office, on the couch, or at Starbucks.

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What To Do When You Screw Up Badly

I’ve screwed up so many times in my life that I lost count. One of my favorite mistakes is when I became homeless for 5 days in London.

That is a good story now, but believe me, I was scared out of my mind at the time. I’d recently moved to London, I had no friends, no family — and yet I managed to get kicked out of my apartment, without having a new place to live.

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What I’m Reading During Christmas And New Year

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If you’re looking for good books during the holidays, you might find something interesting in this reading list for Christmas and New Year.

In 2015, I’ve read exactly 109 books (I use Goodreads to keep count). This is 104 books more than in 2014. Why the dramatic increase?

1) Life is short
2) Knowledge improves your life

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

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