An Honest 5 Minute Journal Review: The Truth About Journaling & Morning Routines

A new fad has been sweeping through the personal development movement. Journaling. But is it just a useless fad seen as the next “magic pill” to success or is it legit? There are even popular journals you can buy include the Five-Minute Journal, Mastery Journal, Freedom Journal, Morning Pages, and Miracle Morning (though this is… Continue reading An Honest 5 Minute Journal Review: The Truth About Journaling & Morning Routines

How To Make Friends Without Having To Influence Them

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is one of the only books that exist on how to make friends. And it’s wildly successful, selling millions of copies. But after reading the book and the reviews, I realized there were critical components on how to make friends that were missing. People complained about… Continue reading How To Make Friends Without Having To Influence Them

Personal Development Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide

Do you know who Tony Robbins is? He went from working as a janitor to the world’s most well known personal development speaker with a net worth of $480 million.  Similarly, Brian Tracy went from working dead-end jobs (like dishwasher) as a high school dropout to a multi-millionaire salesman. Here’s one more: W. Clement Stone took the book Think… Continue reading Personal Development Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide

How To Become Mentally Strong: Advice From The World’s Best

Rich Froning, Jr. has over 1 million followers on Instagram and is considered one of the top Crossfit athletes of all time.

A year ago, I stumbled on an article on how to be mentally strong that got a ton of comments and shares. It confused me. Why do all these people care about this? I didn’t care about being mentally tough. I wanted money and happiness. And I didn’t see how mental toughness would help me with that… Continue reading How To Become Mentally Strong: Advice From The World’s Best

How To Stop Overthinking (And Everything That Comes With It: Self-Doubt, Self-Loathing, Internal Misery, and Zero Action

I got a question: “I’m driving myself to insanity with over-thinking, self-analysis, self-doubt, self-loathing, internal misery and zero action. What do I do?” Well, you’re talking to the king of overthinking. I’m definitely in the top 1% of overthinking and over-analyzing everything (I mean just look at this blog). I didn’t think I was that… Continue reading How To Stop Overthinking (And Everything That Comes With It: Self-Doubt, Self-Loathing, Internal Misery, and Zero Action

Brian Tracy’s Top 17 Time Management and Productivity Principles

“If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.” -a Brian Tracy quote on time management (He’s telling you to do the hardest task first always). How come some people seem to get three times as much done as us even though they don’t appear that much smarter or harder working? I’ll tell you… Continue reading Brian Tracy’s Top 17 Time Management and Productivity Principles

10 Science-Backed Reasons Why You Should Sleep More

With modern pop songs with lyrics like “I will sleep when I die” and celebrities like DJ Khaled bragging about the bags under his eyes, it is clear that many people believe that sleeping as little as possible is the most effective solution and something that be proud of. I’ve seen everyone from high school… Continue reading 10 Science-Backed Reasons Why You Should Sleep More

How to Overcome Procrastination Using A Weird Asian Nerd’s New Science-Backed Strategies

How do you overcome procrastination? We all have it. We all want to fix it. We all hate it. Yet we still find ourselves putting off what we know we should be doing to do something more fun (but less productive). I’ve poured over advice from the world’s most successful people on this topic, like… Continue reading How to Overcome Procrastination Using A Weird Asian Nerd’s New Science-Backed Strategies

A One Year Progress Report of CrossFit As a Complete Beginner

You know the problem with all the “beginners guide to CrossFit” articles on the web? They’re all written by people who don’t do CrossFit. Instead, they’re telling you what it’s like based on a handful of free trial visits, hearsay, opinions, interviewing people, myths, and assumptions. It’s been over a year since I started doing CrossFit.… Continue reading A One Year Progress Report of CrossFit As a Complete Beginner

How To Get Someone To Like You in 5 Minutes or Less Without Lying

Have you ever been in a social gathering with strangers around you? I bet you wanted someone to like you so you didn’t seem so strange standing alone. Perhaps, it was a networking event. Maybe a barbeque. Or a party. I have found myself in plenty of these situations. Not long ago, I was a lost boy… Continue reading How To Get Someone To Like You in 5 Minutes or Less Without Lying