Self-doubt is your key to success. Self-confidence is overrated. Every personal development book puts “confidence” as the number one skill to achieve your goals. Like, if you have “self-confidence” everything else will come by default. The problem is most people don’t have […]

“What changed?” you may ask. “Everything.” I would respond. I was traveling through the US and Canada for the past 6 weeks. Each time I travel, I return as a different person. Travel changes you. You see new things. You meet new […]

We think of motivation as an example of Newton’s Law of Inertia. You better keep pushing that motivation ball or it’s guaranteed to slow down and stand still after a while. As a mental model, it’s a disaster. It implies that our […]

Twenty-something years ago, a forty-something, overworked full-time middle manager, mother, wife, and daughter-in-law wrote a story in her head while washing dishes. She then typed that story and saved it on her desktop. That little story gave her confidence. So she wrote […]