I’ve had lots of ups and downs. The bad times in my life have come when I’ve gone against the rules and as a result, I lost everything.A rule is a fact. It works whether you believe it or not. For example, pi will always equal 3.1415…. That’s a rule.And…

We’ve all heard the phrase, “No regrets!”, usually uttered when about to do something a little unwise perhaps. And yet, as alluring as the “Living Without Regrets” philosophy sounds, it’s not always so easy. We regret missed opportunities. We regret things that made us feel dumb. We regret not telling…

Everywhere we look in business, timetables once measured by calendars can now be clocked by egg timers. So how can we keep up? In a word — and according to an ever-increasing pile of evidence — “flow.” Technically defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best…

There’s one thing you need to do today to start improving your health: get a good night’s sleep. Sleep has been on my list of the top ways to improve your health for 9 years. In fact, it held the #1 spot for 8 out of those 9 years, until this…

In the first part of this series we talked about how even successful people often succumb to temptation. Plus we went over three experiments that showed “why” you can’t rely on willpower alone to stick to a new habit.  And we finished off with a simple exercise for building up your…

Willpower is a concept that’s often misunderstood. It’s easy to give credit to willpower when you successfully build a new habit, but it’s also equally easy to chalk up a failure due to a lack of willpower. So what is willpower? How does it affect your ability to stick to a new…