💠 Inner Cultivation
Living the good life is like tending a garden. Take care of your emotional and mental state and it will bear you fruits of meaning, happiness, wealth and community. Neglect it and you’ll be overrun with weeds of distraction, stress, and empty nihilism.
I’ve been gone for over half a year. In the meantime, I learned the art of letting go and that Life will always provide what I NEED, not necessarily what I WANT.
Ever wondered how your phone's "On This Day" photos can stop you in your tracks? It’s the "Wow! That was ME?” feeling. The concept of "Change Blindness" perfectly captures this phenomenon - our inability to perceive gradual but significant changes over time.
The top three ways to add structure any part of your life is: Routines, Systems, Boundaries. This Epiphany will guide you in creating your own Structure Map to incorporate all three.
The first step in simplifying anything is to deconstruct or break it down to its subcomponents. Then it's a matter of determining which parts to streamline or eliminate. I’ll show you how in this Mind Map.
Beware of what you’re drawing from the future. Both hope and anxiety comes from it. Here’s a Mind Map and 4 questions to help visualize your ideal future while separating real blockers from phantom worries.
Leverage silence, achieve small wins, and cultivate mental resilience for effective stress management. Bonus: “Focus Mind Map” template.
Why do we continue to feel unhappy and empty despite achieving everything we’ve ever wanted? The great irony is that the higher we climb towards our calling, the harder we fall when disillusionment knocks us off the ladder.
Conviction vs Confidence and what driving in Texas taught me about conversations.
I made many deep friendships in a very short amount of time in Austin, an emerging hub for inner cultivation and wholesome living—a place harnessing curiosity and ambition without competition or judgment.
Humans are interesting creatures. We simultaneously love complexity and simplicity. Yet what is simple is actually complex; and what is complex is actually simple.
Acknowledging and accepting our dark sides not only eases our own inner civil war, but allows us to harness this tension for entrepreneurial and creative endeavors.
What if we could live without nostalgia, training our eyes only on the present and future. How would we approach learning, careers, and AI disruptions with this mindset?
I am obsessed with understanding the nature of things, so that I am not caught off guard by life.
I turned 36-years-old this week. For my birthday, I wanted to reflect through a Mind Map on the hardest year of my life to make sure I never forget the most important lessons.
Before flying home, a three-day detour in Los Angeles, became a pivotal moment for integrating my travel lessons into everyday life.
My final journal entry in Taiwan written from the air just like my first one. I reflect on one of the trip’s most important lessons: Ambition versus Simplicity.
Our growth comes from navigating a path between 'faith' and 'doubt'. So how do we do that? I use a combination of questions, affirmations, and Mind Mapping to create a Personal Values System.
The art of cinematic living is knowing where to place your attention and focus to appreciate the details around you or to zoom out to gain an aerial perspective on life.
Who do you want to be? What kind of people do you want to attract into your life? If you’re not clear on the kind of characteristics you’re looking for, then it’s easy to get stuck with people you don’t want around.
I believe in living by questions especially for the most personal ones that we may not even know where to begin searching for the answers. I share mine going into my sabbatical to Taiwan in this entry.
Travel IS learning, if it’s done right. Instead of souvenirs and selfies, we can come home with important lessons and connections. Here’s how my solo backpacking trip to Taiwan changed me.
LinkedIn asked me to write my predictions on the future. The problem is that predictions don’t matter when everything is constantly changing. What’s more important is preparing ourselves for the unpredictable.
Most goals fail because we underestimate the thousands of decisions we must make along the journey to achieving them. Here’s a simple and timeless solution to this dilemma.
An alternative to the traditional annual review that reveals lessons behind our lived experiences and helps us harness new opportunities.
An unassuming sprint brought me to a remote beach town in El Salvador, overhauling my entire YouTube channel, and taking my career in a completely new direction.
Burnout is one of our greatest modern epidemics. There is no medicine for this mental and physical state of exhaustion, but the cure is in managing what’s known as the Stress Cycle.
This 2-week program will teach you the same hyper effective productivity system that I use to get out of any rut and launch over a dozen new products and businesses.
We've launched the limited edition merch called Chaos Gear, to be worn as a statement of resilience and courage in the face of uncertainty and change. Here’s how you can get some for FREE.
The things that made us successful in the past might hold us back going into the next phase of life and career.
Just a quick scroll through Twitter these days can leave you depressed about the state of humanity, leaving you feeling powerless and hopeless. Here’s how I retain my hope and sense of control adopting the “LIGO Mindset”.