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The shrill beep of my alarm pierced the silence at 3 AM, jolting me awake. As I sprung out of bed, squinting at the glowing numbers on my phone, I couldn’t help but wonder, “Why on earth did I agree to this early flight?” But then I remembered: Derek Sivers. For the last three days,
It was 7:30 p.m. on a Thursday, and Lauren and I had just put our four daughters to bed… We’re sitting down watching Dave Chappelle’s recent special on Netflix, and in between my thigh-slapping laughs, I have a deep epiphany… “If I die, how do I best make sure my wife, daughters, and entire family
At 3:02 am this morning, I was jolted awake by a question that refused to let go: “What do I want out of life?” At 37 years old, I’m sitting here in utter confusion, reliving my entire past, trying to dissect where I went wrong, what I got right, and what I should learn from
It’s 5:35 am, and here I am, holed up in what I affectionately call my “home office”—which is, let’s be real, a glorified wardrobe. I laugh at myself… Flashback over a decade ago, and it was a wardrobe that was the birthplace of my first online business. Back then, I had just ditched my life
It was 2004, and looking back at the ‘boy’ I was then, I want to laugh and cry… It was clear to anyone with even one eye that I was punching above my weight. Lauren (my now-wife) and I had just started dating, and to this day, I have no idea what she was attracted
Not long ago, I was sleeping on a couch with my wife and our newborn daughter, just two weeks old, halfway across the globe. After long days that began at the crack of dawn—4:45 am to be exact—in the gym training clients, I’d gaze out at the Dubai skyline. The towering skyscrapers seemed to echo
I’ve decided it’s time to pull the modern-day Houdini… Poof! Gone is the constant buzz of notifications, the curated perfection of feeds, and the endless scroll of, well, scrolls. I’m turning off my YouTube, Podcast, and Instagram until… well, I don’t know when. WHY? There’s a profound realization that my daughters are at this tender
“Should I get divorced… what will my kids think of me?!”“Have I done this all wrong?” For much of my marriage, I felt caught between two poles. On one end, there’s the narrative of the ‘family man’—loving, devoted, ever-present. On the other end, there’s the ‘alpha male’—ambitious, driven, soaring to the peaks
My grandfather is a fisherman. No… not a, stand at the end of a pier, cast a line out, type of fisherman. He’s provided for his family, and to this day is highly sought after for his knowledge, after catching tons and tons of fish, type of fisherman. I remember clearly, as a child being
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