Living With Purpose

While it’s easy to live within the invisible barriers you set for yourself, there’s a far greater reward to break through and deal with some initial discomfort or uncertainty if it means expanding the mental and physical challenges you’re capable of handling.  Most people don’t want to do this an...

Be friends with different types of people. Don’t insulate your worldview by only socializing with those who are fundamentally the same as you.

Set your short and long-term goals (financial, physical, mental) and then adhere to a schedule of constructive habits that will lead you to reach those goals.  Most people are unwilling to give up an in-the-moment good time for the sake of a better state of being in the future, and by doing this,...

Take yourself as seriously as you want the world to. Behave accordingly. The way you treat yourself the world will treat you like that 

Be willing to live the way other people won’t, so you can live the way other people can’t.

Do things intentionally. Date intentionally. Work intentionally. Don’t let your life be a series of mindless, random actions that just seemed nice at the time, but are ultimately meaningless.

Reflect on your life, and ask yourself what your single most compelling motive is. Construct your narrative about it carefully — the way you justify your past actions will become your philosophy for future ones.

Do your soul-searching. Make lists of what you like and what you dislike; what you value and what you don’t; what you’re skilled at and what you’re not. Start cohering to an idea of who you fundamentally are, but allow yourself to be open to that idea changing over time.

When you live in a society that constantly bombards you with ways to spend your hard-earned money, it can be tricky to distinguish what things are essential and what is just for enjoyment.  Not that you need to live like a Spartan, but stepping back and controlling your wants will go a long way t...

Get addicted to healthy pain. The kind that comes from clocking in hours of practice or maneuvering through the discomfort of training your mind to focus on one task until it’s complete. The more you channel your pain into something productive, the less you’ll be tempted to ruminate.

Clean out your space, then work on adopting an attitude of “enough.” Do you really want to spend the next 10 years accumulating things? No, you don’t. Imagine what else all of that money and time and worry could have gone toward.

If being emotionally tough was easy, they wouldn’t call it being tough. But the truth is that life hits hard, and most people never develop the mental armor you need to push yourself through the bad times and stay on course. But by keeping a strong frame of mind and focusing on what inspires you,...

Scrap it all and start over as many times as you need to. There’s no shame in not getting it right, there is, however, a lot of self-loathing that comes from knowing better, but not having the courage to do better.

Very few things can affect your future like enhancing your education and with online courses and degrees, it’s easier and more convenient than ever to do just that.  And while your current life and work schedule might make it tough to find the time for those mas...

Asking yourself what it is that truly motivates you, what your inner values are, and why certain people or events affect you in a particular way, you’ll have a better chance of locking on the right life path and not getting swayed off it.

Get comfortable admitting when you’re wrong. There is no failure in making mistakes. There is a failure in making mistakes and having too much pride to fix them.