What do you want to accomplish?

Vision is usually referenced more often in business but it plays a critical role in your personal life as well. The vision you have for yourself, however far into the future, whatever aspect of your life or yourself, is fuel for the discipline required to make it a reality. Your personal vision...

We’re continuing the discussion on patterns in your brain and therefore patterns in your thinking, decisions, and actions.

The brain is a complex, wonderfully powerful, but lazy system. It loves patterns and relies on them heavily in order to conserve energy while also keeping us moving at the speed life demands.

There are times in life — moments, decisions, situations — when we perceive tension between what seems right and what seems advantageous.

I don’t know how you define right and wrong in life. The subject is certainly beyond my authority, if I had any to contribute. What many people call “right” is simply an opinion and what they call “wrong” just differs from their preferences or deviates from their traditions.

I’ve enjoyed our deeper dive into friction forces this week. I hope you have too. I hope you’ve done some work to uncover the friction forces you feel and have begun to set priorities for how you’ll make discipline-driven decisions when you recognize that friction happening.

In the pursuit of a principle-driven life, anything can be a friction force. Things like kindness are perceived as good and desirable qualities, but easily become friction forces in certain contexts. 

As you gain self-awareness of the friction forces in yourself, don’t let it stay theoretical or intellectual. Make it practical. Turn your self-awareness into self-discipline by:

How often do you see a principle worth following, yet find it difficult to live out effectively in your life? You know the principle is sound, but you discover there are other factors influencing you besides those principles.