There are no guarantees that life will turn out the way you want… but you have a better chance of it turning out how you want if you know how to design your own life.
I like the image of an architect designing a building by first laying out the blueprints. Or a writer outlining a [...]

In 2004 I returned to Perth, Australia, after a year of traveling overseas. I returned to a city with a ridiculously strong economy. Demand from China had driven commodity prices to record highs, and the mining industry was booming. For those unfamiliar with the geography of Australia, Perth is the capital of Western Australia, [...]

Images by Shoothead, Cobalt123, Paul Watson, and Giampolo Macorig.
If you read last week’s post Well… I Have A New Job, you will be aware that I am now also working as an editor for the popular self improvement blog Pick The Brain. I was very excited when I was offered this job a month ago, [...]

Note: this is a guest post from Patrick Mathieu. Photo is by Csaba Bajko.
How do you start your day?
Do you greet the morning by hiding your head under the covers and swiping your hand madly around in search of the alarm’s snooze button? Or are you eager to get out of bed and jump into [...]

Photo by Victor Nuno.
“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” — E.M. Gray
I write this having just returned from an early morning run. The local neighborhood looked beautiful [...]

Note: this is a guest post by David Bohl from Slow Down Fast. Photo by lazy butterfly.
“Attitude is everything.” I’ve read two books recently with a title similar to that, and I hear it constantly when people talk about self-improvement and reaching goals. “Attitude is everything.”
I wonder. Sure, attitude is important. If you feel [...]