“Work on your mindset everyday!” the gurus will scream. But really, your mindset is just a permission slip that grants you the ability to move forward. Granted, the real reason why people don’t move forward more is often mindset. But you can’t preach mindset advice to prisoners of war or to people that are slaves […]

In a different post, I mention that finding more problems is often strangely the solution. However, another way to go about that idea is to consider whether you’d like to solve a problem or eliminate a problem by making the problem irrelevant. There’s usually an easier way to handle a problem, and it’s by noticing […]

Gurus are always trying to tout that if you’re successful, you’ll be happy. The reality is these things don’t always coexist. We’ve seen many “successful” people kill themselves either intentionally or not (ie drug overdoses). The data is in: Being successful financially doesn’t equate to happiness. Gary Vee is always talking about “don’t you want […]

“Figure out a way to make money doing what you love!” – Random guru advice. This piece of advice can be good, but it can also turn someone’s life into a nightmare of distractions. Seth Godin actually accidentally told us a very good way to approach money and passion. Seth was a passionate writer and […]

“The definitions of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome!” – Bad Gurus (FYI – Einstein didn’t say this ridiculous statement, as he was false quoted as saying this.) The problem with a garbage statement like that is that it ignores 2 elements of every decision made: Probability of outcome. Potential […]

Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, as as well as gurus from The Secret, would tell us to simply visualize and think our way to wealth. Alex Becker tells us in the 10 Pillars of Wealth book that everything is our fault – both good and bad. There’s massive pieces of truth in this but are slightly […]

Find out what’s holding you back in life and move past it! – Typical wrong guru. What’s actually holding you back isn’t the same as what you think is holding you back – Truth Cake. A lot of people think that if they didn’t have to deal with their job, their kids, their nagging spouse, or whatever that they […]

See what successful people are doing and model them! – Random Guru This is helpful SOMETIMES. The correct thing to do is, See what successful people DID and model them! – TruthCake The problem is that if you model someone that’s already made it, certain rules may no longer apply to them because they’ve already […]