Go Big Early

Escaping from your comfort zone is a necessity in order to rise above the masses. Even though your daily routine feels safe and pleasant, that doesn’t mean it’s beneficial. In fact, the safer you feel, the less likely you’ll do anything to make progress .

A comfort zone isn...

1. Write goals that align with your values. If your career goals aren’t supporting your life goals, you are bound to have a miserable existence.
2. Set goals that you can control. Unless every aspect of the goal you set is under your control, you have very little likelihood ...

It is the idea that if you reach professional heights and are deeply invested in being high up, you can suffer greatly when you inevitably decline.

In many professions, we may reject the inevitability of decline before a very old age. But the data are clear that for most p...