questforameaningfullife

No matter where you are, one thing is clear: your mindset WILL shift. You could be in the happiest state of your life, you could be in the most miserable state of your life. It’s always going to shift. A simple obvious point, like so many of the things I say. Pretty simple and obvious, […]

I’m fascinated by the idea of self-leadership, connected to ideas like personal sovereignty, the idea that we can be our own kingdom, where each person is like a country of our own. And I believe this metaphor can be very useful. In a sense we have personal government. We make policy for ourselves. We negotiate

Another angle to the whole idea of mistakes are okay, it’s alright to have a mistake, make a mistake every day: another angle that just came to me that I’m seeing today is really mistakes are funny. They are such a fertile source of good humour. How many jokes are based on someone doing something

Today was a very hot day here in Toronto, and it really- it’s really going to be the last hot day for many months. It was full t-shirt and shorts weather, really hot, humid, full summer weather. And it’s now going into October, and it’s gonna get cold. And so my thought for today is

My idea for today is that if nothing feels good, just be a robot. When you’re having a bad day, on a day when things don’t feel right, I try to simply take care of automatic tasks. It’s easy to get into a kind of spiral where I feel bad, and then I feel bad

So my idea for tonight is that nothing else matters except our character. Some days go smoothly. Some days are very difficult. There are so many factors outside our control, so many things that we’re really at the mercy of. The only thing we can really control is our own actions, to a degree, our

So my message for today is make a mistake every day. If a day goes by and you can’t identify a mistake that you’ve made, some kind of failure that you’ve had in that day, then it sounds to me like you’re really not doing anything noteworthy, nothing new, nothing different, not even the same

Hello and welcome to my new stream. I’m still getting used to this whole idea of being live on a stream. Why am I doing this? I have wasted a lot of time in my life. And when I have come to realize how short life is, how big each day is, I feel like