Earn Your Good Day

Once there was a caterpillar. he spent his days traversing the garden, eating until he was full and he couldn't move. He has one goal in life. To get big enough to become a butterfly. He and his friends always talk about it, yet none of them know exactly how it happens. Some say you go to sleep and wake up one. Others claim you have to go on a long journey and find a butterfly to transform int...

Society Yanks us into mediocrity, promising endless, hedonistic comfort with almost no effort required. Yet we live in a society with the highest rates of anxiety, depression, loneliness, illness, and obesity in history. This has happened relatively recently as well. I have seen an increase in it in my short 24-year life since I was a kid. When I was growing up, we were encouraged to work hard and...

In today's world, there are messages about how masculinity is toxic. Men should be docile, weak, dependent, idiotic, inherently bad and dangerous, shunned just for being a man, or should be more feminine. Then there is the flip side, where men are told to be the SIGMA MALE: Dominate, aggressive, and ruthless. There are few examples of what it means to be a man and masculine. Even fewer males h...

When was the last time you had a good conversation? When was the last time you left talking with someone, feeling refreshed, invigorated, heard, lighter, or at peace? So many of us spend so much time "Communicating" to other people, yet more people than ever feel alone, sad, left out, depressed, disconnected, out of touch, unheard, angry, forgotten, unimportant, and much more. How is thi...

Some days you wake up, and everything seems to go against you; your brain tells you you aren't good enough. Telling you that you shouldn't even try, "It's just one of those days." just keeps rolling around. How do you keep going when everything around you, society, your family, and friends are telling you to take it easy, telling you that it's okay to not try hard, it&#39...

You wake up hoping for a great day, and it fails your expectations. You go home and say tomorrow will be better. The next morning you wake up and do the same thing. You don't get much done at work like you hoped, your workout was lackluster, and your friend who said they would call never did. On the third day, you wake up in a bad mood and expect a crappy day. Why would today be good when the...

You're home on a Saturday and awakened by the most delicious aroma from the kitchen. It is one of those delicacy scents that you treat yourself to but don't take enough time most days to really savor properly. You pour your first cup, listen to your mug filling, and bring the rim to your nose as you deeply inhale. Smiling at the comforting warmth in your palms, you take your first sip, and...

Do you find yourself daydreaming about a better life, where you have less worry, a better job, a nicer car, a hotter significant other, a bigger impact?  Most of us do this; however, that is where it usually ends.  We never use those daydreams to propel us into a better future that we are truly excited about.  I have a surprise for you.  With a slight shift to those daydreams,...

Last week we talked about sex, drugs, and rock and roll and how one molecule rules all those worlds.  This week we are talking about even crazier topics of creativity and madness, politics, yes, this same molecule can predict which political party you will affiliate with, progress, and finally, we are going to put a gorgeous bow in it talking about harmony in life.  Most of us go through...

Do you ever wonder why you have uncontrollable cravings and you HAVE to quench them? Or wonder how some business mogul can pull 12-hour days 7 days a week, for years on end?  Or why at the beginning of a relationship things feel so great, and you find yourself daydreaming about the person.  Only to be totally sick of them a few months later?   A single molecule drives these behavior...

The First ever guest on the Podcast returns for a conversation about perseverance, doing what you need to do no matter what, and answering the question, "who are you?" The main theme of this episode was a little quote that we dropped at the gym talking about different jobs you have and different versions of yourself that you present.  "They're not masks, they're hats" is what today's episode...

Doing hard things is great!  In fact, to reach our full potential, it's a requirement.  There is ZERO workaround.  No matter how much we wish, we can never become who we are truly meant to be unless we do hard things and suffer to some degree.  We will all also have some degree of suffering happen to us in life.  Whether that is an unexpected job loss, divorce, tragic acci...

You walk into a room, and without anyone saying a word, you know who the "Boss" is.  Their facial expression isn't angry, mean, sad, or happy.  It is simply at peace with a hint of "Fuck around and find out" in it.  The energy they give off is indistinguishable.  You've just started working for this company, and you already know you want to get close to that person to learn the...

You're walking down the street one day and you start to feel your shoulders rise up and your fists clench.  You don't know why because just a second ago you were totally relaxed.  But now you notice a plastic bag fly by, there is a bug crawling on the bench near you, and you hear footsteps behind you.  You jump and spin around ready to fight at the surprise.  Then you look down...

We all grew up hearing how we should be a "Go-Getter" and chase our goals more.  That people who were Go-Getter were the top echelon of people to emulate.  This story flips that phrase on its head and gives it a new meaning and a new name, lol.  A short story about some very powerful principles of success, 5 Laws to stratospheric success, in fact.  1) The Law of Value 2) The La...

Well, folks, it has officially been one year since the podcast first started.  It was a whim that I didn't know would be such a part of my life and such a point of pride I have in myself.  I have released one episode every single week for 52 weeks in a row, and my original goal was only 26 episodes.  I doubled my original goal.  When I was younger, I had a lot of fears and have...

Do you constantly hear people saying "New Year, New Me.", knowing that most people who say that will not make any progress towards that new version of themselves they desire? Or hearing the same new years resolution the last 5 years.   Most of the people who say that don't follow through with it.  However, every year there are those few people who do make the change.  When we m...

We just finihed 2022 strong, it's time to bump up that momentum going into 2023 to have an even better year!  While we all want to feel better and more positive emotions in our da to day life, it can be hard at times.  In today's episode I share with you a few stories on how people have been improving my life this year by being the light in the darkness, and a few scientific backed tips...

Do you hear people talking about "new year, new me" and think, "man that person sure is going to change their life around this year!!"?  No, you don't.  We all know that people who say that, said the same thing the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that, and nothing has changed.  That doesn't have to be you.  We have been told to think about goals the w...

Are you searching for a reason to get out of bed in the morning? Are you asking yourself what the point of working so hard is or what you should be doing with your life?  Most of us are searching for a reason to continue with all the BS we have to deal with daily.  We see other people who have this energy for life and this crazy energy they attack the day with.  If you're anything l...

Do you know someone who dumps all over the place? Someone who never takes a dump until it explodes out of them?  What about someone who sprays tons of little meaningless dumps everywhere but can never seem to dump what they truly need to?  Having healthy bowel movements are key to being healthy.  In both our bodies, but also our minds.  Having diarrhea is not good because you g...

When we are doing something big that scares us, it may seem overwhelming and tempting to retreat or go back into our shells.  In fact, this is the wrong way to go about it.  For we have simply misinterpreted what it feels like to feel ALIVE.  The main difference between fear and excitement does not have to do with how our body responds to a situation, both have the exact same physio...

Tis the Season of Joy and Thanksgiving!  What a wonderful time of year.  Things are slowing down a bit; you have more time to reflect, family becomes more important, and there is an overall sense with people that they are more thankful than any other time of year.  I often felt odd being given thanks, unsure of how to respond when I was a boy.  It felt good, but at the same tim...

Do you ask yourself if your life was meant for more? or wonder what it would look like if you reached your full potential? How to find peace in your mind? How to defeat the defeating thoughts that run rent-free in your head?  Many of us ask ourselves those questions and wonder how to get there.  How do we reach our full potential?  Is it going to be hard and painful?  While mos...

Do you, like most people feel the suction and the trap of social media?  You go on to look at a calendar event or a text message just to look up 30 minutes later having not done what you went on your phone to do in the first place?  I have to.  More times than I'd care to admit... However, I made a choice a while back to reduce this from happening and to get more done during the day...