Truth Bomb Tuesday: How to reclaim your power from your emotions. “Sometimes my emotions get the better of me. I get close to landing a deal, and then I get scared. Self-doubt creeps in, and I just can’t go on. I know my emotions are holding me back, but I just don’t know how to […]
T-Bomb: Why freedom actually sucks
Truth Bomb Tuesday: I couldn’t believe that life was actually like this… Freedom is painful. I know we talk about freedom as if it’s the greatest thing God ever invented. Apart from love is the only thing worth dying for. Just ask Mel Gibson. But it’s actually painful. It’s kind of a pain in the […]
T-Bomb: The difference between day jobs and slavery
Truth Bomb Tuesday: You were never meant to fit everything in. Why do the weekends feel so short? Even the long ones. Three days never feels like enough. But they feel short because they are short. It’s been a fair while since I had to work a 9-5 job, but I just don’t know how […]
T-Bomb: How to escape the limits of your fear
Truth Bomb Tuesday: You don’t have to let your fears define you Our fears shape our lives. They determine what we feel we are capable of, and that determines what we can achieve and experience. So I went on a bit of a research mission the other day, trying to understand how we can confront […]
T-Bomb: How generosity changes your brain
Truth Bomb Tuesday: If you don’t practice generosity, life starts to box you in. Generosity has to be a central practice. You need to make it a central discipline of your life. If we become selfless – actually, hold up. I don’t really like the term ‘selfless’. We often use it to describe the tendency […]
T-Bomb: Would you rather die or look stupid?
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Is a need to belong keeping you poor? There was a fascinating psychological study I was reading about recently where a participant was put in a waiting room with a bunch of people. All the other people were actors, but the participant didn’t know that. After a little while of hanging out […]
T-Bomb: How to get on top of overwhelm
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Can we all just stop pretending for a minute? Overwhelmed? Confused? That’s ok. No really. It’s ok. It’s totally normal. If you told me that you had a complete grip on things – that you had a good working understanding of how the world works – I’d think you were kidding. At […]
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Pain is a symptom, not the problem
Here’s a powerful new lens for understanding what’s wrong with your life I was at the physio the other day, getting some help with my lower back. He explained that the problem was with my psoas. I said, ‘Don’t talk to me like that! You’re half my age.’ And he said, no, the psoas is […]
Truth-Bomb Tuesday: Sandals are the key to happiness
Ok, I wanted to introduce something a little different here…When we were doing The Property Games there was one stage where young Jack was having a rough go of it. Deals weren’t flowing his way, and he was feeling a bit of anger and resentment. We had to take him a side and help him […]