Keynote Speaker, Author & Reinvention Architect
It’s a great privilege to express oneself authentically and fully. It’s one of our most significant sources of inner peace and emotional freedom. It’s also a privilege, in a free country, that we, and we alone can extend to ourselves. Nobody can stop us from expressing ourselves authentically. If we believe otherwise, all we’re doing…
76% of people die with the same regret. “Not fulfilling their ideal self.” This is from a Cornell study conducted a few years back. The “ideal self” is the attributes you would ideally like to possess, such as hopes, goals, aspirations, or wishes. It’s the forsaken dreams, romantic interests not pursued, and choosing the “safe”…
Humans are hardwired to avoid and escape pain. As such, we seek the fastest, most efficient route to avoid and escape. We seek short-term fixes in lieu of long-term solutions and inner peace. When our lives are unfulfilling, when we know we’re not filling our full potential, when we ask, “Is this all there is?”…
I don’t care for New Year’s resolutions. I think they’re stupid, actually. More specifically, waiting for January 1 to begin is stupid. Yes, the New Year has energy, but waiting for January 1 seems silly. If I know I want to work on my mobility (which I do), why will I wait for January 1…
Freddie Roach is widely considered one of the greatest boxing trainers in history. He’s won the Trainer of the Year award an unprecedented 7 times, worked with 27 world champions, and completely revolutionized how boxers prepare for a fight. Before he attained this level of success, he was a professional boxer – with an OK…
Discovering peace on the razor’s edge of fear. Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor, said, “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the…