You have the ability to create any future you want. The reason it doesn’t seem that way is because of the process we learned in childhood. We were told to start with the present, then think of the steps to create the future. I am here. If I do this and that, I hope to

Let’s challenge a common belief – the idea that success is synonymous with struggle. It’s easy to fall into the trap of equating pain and hardship with progress. Where does this idea stem from? Perhaps it’s the deep-seated belief that success only comes from arduous work. Maybe it’s a throwback to Puritan values where hard

The primary job of your mind is to make meaning. It categorizes things as good or bad, safe or dangerous, right or wrong, generally based on past experience. We don’t see circumstances as neutral, we interpret them. We mix up what happened with the story we tell about it. The language we use in the

Beliefs start out as thoughts which over time you accept as “true.” Your brain uses those beliefs as a filter. It looks for evidence to support what you believe. It deletes and distorts everything else. This is called confirmation bias. This meaning-making strategy doesn’t rely on accuracy or objectivity. We think we’re seeing the world

We have a bias for action because, on the surface, it appears that results are created by what we do. But action can work against us if we don’t believe the outcome we want is possible. Or if we believe it has to be hard and take a long time. For example, when scaling my

How do you forecast your business growth? Like when you’re projecting revenue and profit for this year, next year, and 3 years out? The easy thing to do is calculate a reasonable % increase based on what you’ve done in the past, or what others in your industry are doing. You can do that. It