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Can You Ever Be ‘Done’ With Personal Development?

April 4, 2019 No Comments

I often hear people saying stuff like, “You don’t need to read non-fiction books anymore!” They pretend they somehow “graduated” from the whole personal development movement.

“I stopped listening to podcasts,” is another one of those statements. Every time I hear something like that, one word comes to mind: Arrogance.

When people say they are done with learning, what are they really saying? They are saying they are too good for the knowledge that other people are sharing.

They are saying, “I don’t need this. I know it better.” And that’s exactly the type of person I don’t relate to.

Writing

Writing As A Spiritual Exercise

April 1, 2019 No Comments

Writing is also a spiritual exercise. I was writing everyday years before I made a living as a writer. When I started writing, I immediately sensed that it changed my life.

It didn’t only improve my career and skills—writing every day was therapeutic as well. I didn’t realize why that was at the time.

But when I recently read The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot, which is an analysis of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, I realized why that was.

After analyzing the Stoic classic, Meditations, Hadot concluded that Marcus wrote it for himself. The book was never meant to be published. So why did Marcus write? Mainly, because of two reasons:

Decision Making, Investing, Productivity

You Can Achieve Anything If You Focus On ONE Thing

March 28, 2019 No Comments

how to focus on one thing to be more productive

You can achieve almost anything in life…As long as you focus on achieving one thing at a time. It’s a time-tested strategy that’s been shared by many successful people.

Gary Keller and Jay Papasan even wrote a whole book about this simple idea. But don’t let the simplicity of this idea fool you. It’s one of the hardest things to implement in your life.

Last year, I published an article about focusing on one thing called “The Power Of Compounding.” I’ve received dozens of questions about it like, “I get the idea. But I struggle with putting it into practice.”

That’s because we, human beings, are fickle. Our desires are constantly changing. We pursue new things before we finish our old goals.

We’re dealing with an invisible force that is always trying to confuse us. Instead of focusing on one thing at a time, we set multiple goals, and think we can multitask ourselves to achieving them.

Decision Making, Thinking

The 20/80 Rule Of Effective Thinking

March 18, 2019 No Comments

How much time should I spend thinking instead of doing? It’s one of the biggest questions I struggle with. One side of me says, “Without doing you will never achieve anything.”

Another side says, “Without thinking things through, you might end up doing the wrong things.”

Thinking by itself is worthless because if you never do anything, what’s the use? And if you only act without thinking, you’ll probably end up in jail or in a ditch. That’s why this topic is so important. But most of us never even consider living by a thinking/doing ratio.

I live by a 20/80 ratio.

Before I explain why that is, and how you can create your own ratio, let’s look at some of the most respected individuals of our time: Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, two investors who are celebrated for their good decisions and thinking processes.

They are not only thinkers, but they are also successful practitioners. 

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