It’s not about what you want, it’s about what you do — Here are a few signs that you’re procrastinating too much: 1. You haven’t accomplished your goals in a long time. 2. You keep making excuses for why you’re not getting things done. 3. You find yourself distracted by activities that don’t help you reach your goals or are unhelpful to…

And how to prevent that — Here’s a scenario: You’ve been sleeping 8 hours most nights, and you don’t eat too much junk food. You don’t have any serious medical conditions. Maybe you even came from a vacation, so you should be rested. Despite all these things, you don’t feel rested or energized at all. You…

When you lack purpose, everything feels bad — The Finns are the happiest people on Earth. They have been the happiest folks for 6 years now. Unsurprisingly, Finland is also among the top 3 in over a hundred global measures of economic and social success. Even if it has much less money (or oil) than countries like the…

Do something because of the process, not the potential results — When I was 18, I wanted to become a DJ. DJs were the center of attention at parties. And they made good money by playing some records. I imagined myself going out of a fancy car, my music in hand, waving to fans who were crowding over because I just…

”I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” — We live in a world where external validation dictates our self-worth. Isn’t that a shame? That’s something the French Renaissance philosopher, Michel de Montaigne, talked about hundreds of years ago. This isn’t a new problem. After all, social media magnifies our inferior feelings when we see so many rich and…

Can you be wealthy and Stoic at the same time? — What if you apply Stoic philosophy to wealth building? That’s what I thought in 2018 for the first time. Now, 5 years later, I’ve been building wealth like a Stoic. That helps me to live peacefully, and at the same time, get richer. I’ve learned that there are three things…

We are defined not just by who we are in the present, but by how we managed our past experiences. — Erik Erikson, the psychoanalyst who coined the term, “identity crisis,”1 found that humans typically go through eight stages of life. Born in Germany, in 1902, to Danish parents but raised by a Jewish stepfather, Erikson grew up with a different upbringing from his peers. In 1927, the psychoanalyst Anna Freud…

I went after the 7-figures net-worth — CNBC quotes a study which found that a single American with no kids can comfortably live in the United States with a $68,499 annual, post-tax salary. (The average “middle class” annual income is at $60,000). Meanwhile, the MIT Living Wage calculator posted recent data that a family of four (two…

“Just one more step.” — Have you experienced the following situation before? You’re hit with a wave of inspiration — maybe you’ll start that novel you’ve been dreaming about, or go to the gym more regularly, or clear the chores, emails, and other tasks that are gathering dust in your to-do list. But after a…