A wise man once said to me: ‘Aways remember that this world stamps on weakness and cruelly ignores the bland’. At the time I thought it was a bit of a downer, but he had a point. It is those who take things to an extreme, who suffer to the point of insanity for their …
The very worst thing you can do is trade time for money. And yet the vast majority of people do exactly that: in other words, they work jobs where they are paid by the hour. What this means—in general—is that if they don’t work they don’t get paid. OK, there is some flexibility here, particularly …
If you want to achieve personal freedom – and I very much hope that you do since you are reading this! – then by far the best way of achieving that is building a personal brand online. Why? Because by doing so you will be in a unique position: you will get to live your …
One of the big problems with society as it has been set up to this point it that it makes supplicants of us. When it comes to getting ahead and building a career that leads to personal freedom, we feel like we have to ask permission for everything. Why is this? It’s because in the …
In this new episode of the podcast (episode 42) I consider why the size of your audience when you are building a personal brand online is less important than the quality of engagement you enjoy with those people. If you haven’t already, sign up for my DAILY email on online biz, dating and lifestyle. It’s …
You need something to sell. I do too. We all do. I am using the term ‘sell’ in its broadest possible sense, by the way. It depends on what your immediate priority is, of course. But you need a unique selling point in every area of your life. In dating, you need to have a USP – …
Some arguments you aren’t ever going to win. Sometimes, however right you are, you’re wrong. There was this girl I worked with. This bitch. She didn’t like me. I had thought she was OK, or at least, I was neutral, but she didn’t like me. Or she began not liking me when we were forced …
The one mistake that truly successful people never make is simple: they do not allow their consistent dedication to their life’s mission to drop. Not ever. Not even for a single day. You must ensure that you are the same. If you allow the consistency with which you attack any given task to falter then …
Always be actively for something, or actively against it. Yes, you will alienate some, but you will win many more over. Being neutral is synonymous with being forgettable. The above quote, about being actively for or against something, was my most popular in the last seven days, receiving something like 17k impressions and 240 ‘engagements’ …
The best ideas come to you in solitude. I have a theory that the reason that introverts tend to be creatives is because, spending more time alone, they are more susceptible to inspiration. In this throwback episode of The Modern Casanova podcast (ep. 39) I discuss how being an introvert has helped me as a …
