I remember, pretty vividly, my mornings as a kid. I remember waking up excited. Not about anything in particular, just excited. Like I knew I was excited about being alive – getting another day. I remember riding my bike to school and how it wasn’t your typical bike ride. Me and a couple other friends [...]
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Let me preface this first by saying I do not condone divorce. Of course, I would have much rather my parents stuck together and worked it out, but I also feel I was fortunate enough to have it happen at a time where I could look past the “my parents are leaving me” phase and [...]
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I watched this film the other night called One Week. The film is about a man, Ben Tyler, from Toronto who is diagnosed suddenly with stage 4 cancer and told he has at a maximum 1-2 years to live. After the news, Ben decides to tell his fiancé that he has cancer, buy a motorcycle, [...]
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I’ve talked to so many people who want to start something big. I’m not talking like a yarn business or a good hobby. I’m talking about something that changes the fucking world. Yes, f-bomb included…that big. Hell, even myself. I started C&WS to help me document, learn, and help others (as well as myself) get [...]
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Imagine you’re a surfer. You live in a quaint surfing village near the waves. Every morning you wake up, grab your cup of tea, and stand out on your porch to check out the swell. Every night before bed you look up the weather report for tomorrow. On the good days, you’re in the water. [...]
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I received an email the other day from a reader expressing her concern with the direction in her life. About to graduate from college, she’s finding her degree is not inspiring to her. She doesn’t want to commit to a job in the same field because it doesn’t tug at her heart. She wants to [...]
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In my last post, I presented to you what I found as the simple happiness “formula.” In case you missed it, here it is again: Happiness = inspired>today<fulfilled. In short, the happiest people I’ve witnessed in my life focused on those two things over EVERYTHING. They wake up inspired and they go to bed fulfilled. [...]
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So, seriously…I figured it out. I figured out what every single happy person does that every single unhappy person doesn’t do. If you’ve been around C&WS for long you’ll know this has been one of my biggest motivators. Finding out what makes people happy and then helping others figure it out. I’ve had a chance [...]
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Many great companies are started by very intelligent entrepreneurs. You know, the ones that have a knack at seeing an exposed niche in the market, raise capital, and hire the right people to take the company public, right? For the majority – wrong. “The myth of innovation is that it starts with entrepreneurs, but it [...]
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If I were to give you $10 million dollars right now, think about what you would do with it. Seriously – take a few minutes to actually write out what you would do. Now, if I were to give you that same $10 million dollars, but told you that in 3 months I would take [...]
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