“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. . . . It’s just easier if you do.” —Byron Katie
1: Something bad happens.
Did it happen to us? Or, for us?
How we answer that question determines the trajectory of our lives.
Because we have a choice, Dan Sullivan… continue reading
1: “The noise and distractions are relentless,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
It’s easy to lose our internal compass.
The prevalence of social media means we are constantly comparing ourselves with everyone else.
“No wonder the more time we spend on social media, the less self-esteem we’ll have and the more depressed we’ll … continue reading
1: Success is like a nightclub, Alex Banayan writes in his book, The Third Door.
“There’s the First Door: the main entrance, where 99 percent of people wait in line, hoping to get in,” he observes.
Then, there is the Second Door, “the VIP entrance, where the billionaires and celebrities slip through.”
Finally, there is the Third Door, which most people know nothing about.
“It’s the entrance,” Alex writes, … continue reading
1: Answer? Not even close.
Roughly 15 years ago, when author and entrepreneur Dr. Benjamin Hardy was 18 years old, he lived at his cousin’s house, slept on the couch, and played World of Warcraft for 15+ hours per day.
“I didn’t have a job. I certainly didn’t have a PhD or the six kids I now have. I wasn’t an entrepreneur, nor was I ever intending to be,” he … continue reading
1: “It takes Americans, on average, 24 minutes to actually get out of bed and start the day—after two alarms and hitting snooze twice,” Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
Why is this?
“If we don’t know what we’re going to do in a given situation, we will default to the most easy … continue reading
1: “There is one specific hour—the ‘sweet spot’ of our day—that has the biggest impact on both our short-term and long-term success,” Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
“What we do during this one hour has effects that far outweigh what we do with the other hours of your day,” they write. “It … continue reading
1: While playing college soccer in the 1980s, Kim Butler learned something that changed her life.
“Given that Principia College was a small college, and that women’s college soccer was a fairly new concept, the team was made up of several girls who had never even played soccer before,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success… continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
In past weeks, we’ve been exploring the idea of the GAP and the GAIN, as outlined in the book of the same name by Dan Sullivan and Ben … continue reading
1: Remember the classic 1946 Frank Capra film It’s a Wonderful Life?
George Bailey is about to jump off a bridge and end his life.
An angel named Clarence appears. He “takes George through a spiritual tour of the world as it would have been had George never been born,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, … continue reading
1: The year was 1930.
One hundred eighty young women had just become nuns at the School of Sisters of Notre Dame. They were asked to write autobiographical journal entries.
“More than five decades later, researchers coded the entries for positive emotional content,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
The psychologists doing the study … continue reading
