Master the art of seizing the moment. Live in the present. Quickly recognize an opportunity. Pivot easily. Does that sound appealing?

These are the things that people who can capitalize on a split-second do. Do you want to learn how to do these things too? Do you want to learn how to monetize moments that others miss out on?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, continue reading.

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What is advantage? We believe it’s associated with success, and it is. To say otherwise is ridiculous.

But what I am going to ask you to do here is look at advantage versus disadvantage differently. Look at disadvantage in the context of a changing world. Our world is chaotic. It is uncertain. People are fearful and behave strangely. There is loss everywhere - human connection and financial. A few authority figures are in control. Opportunity is fleeting.

So, with all of that going on who will thrive will change?

In this article. we’ll explore why people from disadvantaged backgrounds are at a distinct advantage right now and what traits they have you need. To learn more, continue reading.

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I am a high-school drop-out, with only a 9^th-grade education. I also hold a PhD from an Ivy League University and have been a career professor serving at top schools like Florida State University.

At one time I was a person most anyone would have called a loser, a person most people would characterize as unsuccessful; however, my story turned out very different. Failure turned into success because I have an opportunistic personality.

If you want to learn more about what an opportunistic personality is and how you can use their secrets to your advantage, continue reading.

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In this article, you are guided through how to apply the 2-10-20 Method to you. Remember, when you jog or perform any other type of rhythmic exercise like cycling or elliptical training, you engage the central pattern generator (CPG).

A CPG is a motion that you start, and your spinal cord keeps it going. That frees the executive brain to tackle whatever worries and problems have been bothering you.

In a minute-by-minute approach we will guide you through the first two minutes of what is happening in your mind with rhythmic exercise like elliptical training or cycling and then in the next article we’ll address the deep state – the ten- and twenty-minute marks.

To continue this journey integrating neuroscience, psychology, fitness, and business and what it means to your success, read more below.

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You’ve learned to recognize many of the symptoms and causes of your depression. Now you’re ready to work on fixing what’s wrong. Yes, it will take work. But the 2-10-20 Method will make it a whole lot easier.

It’s like an addiction, however. You never completely cure yourself of depression; you spend the rest of your life in “recovery”. And like any addiction, you keep it at bay one day, one step, one minute at a time. Only you can do the work with constant patience and perseverance.

Do you want to learn how and why taking a walk quiets your brain and lifts you out of that crappy mood? Do you want to learn a step-by-step process to feel better instantly?

If you answered yes, continue reading below.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - my biggest fear is staying relevant.

To me staying relevant means to create value in myself by helping other people achieve their goals - my college students, professional development students, and general audience.

To succeed, everyone needs guidance and advice that only experience can offer. People of all ages need help and when someone sees value in your knowledge and experience to achieve their success, age becomes irrelevant.

Expertise has value. Outcomes have greater value. When older people step in with tangible assets like solutions, everyone wins.

The key is to keep your mind, your most valuable asset, sharp as you age so you can continue to deliver your knowledge and content for many years to come.

To learn more about how to keep your mind sharp as you age, continue reading.

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Reaching your goals is tough. But it can be made much easier using a step-by-step approach.

In this case, we’ll look at the 2-10-20 Method. This powerful approach to building a better life depends on setting goals that will enable you to harness your negative emotions and take things step by step.

It’s not nearly as daunting as it may seem. A few minutes will get you started - teach you how to easily and painlessly get started so that establishing a routine to help you succeed becomes a deeply ingrained habit that will serve you for the rest of your life. To learn more, continue reading below.

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Negative emotions pop into our heads every day. They can attack at any time. When they do, we can let them take us down, or we can view them as red flags warning us to get moving and turn them around.

That’s the basic message. Everyone experiences depression, anxiety, boredom, anger, worry, wicked thoughts, and feelings of disconnectedness – the key is listening to those negative emotions and turning them into positive forces in our lives.

In this article, we’ll look at how you can use simple fitness tips like walking, jogging, and doing cardio machines at the gym or home into real world solutions to help you manage emotions in the moment and use your mind-body connection to fuel your alternative pathway to success.

This is not babbling nonsense. It’s the intersection of neuroscience and movement. Curious? Continue reading to learn more.

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One of the most annoying things about the workforce, among too many to count, is how women are viewed versus men.

To explore this topic in more detail we’ll focus on anger and how the same emotion and same behaviors are described as positive in men and negative in women. To make matters worse, the outcomes are totally different - angry men benefit while angry women do not.

It’s a maddening double standard. But perceptions and outcomes can change when we recognize it and attack it head on.

In this article we’ll explore how anger is perceived differently in the workplace between men and women and how women can change that to get similar outcomes to anger that men get. To learn more, continue reading.

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Yes, you heard me. Not quitting can be dangerous.

Not quitting can also be what’s holding you back. Sounds like the ultimate oxymoron – where ideas are in direct contradiction.

But they’re not. If you are holding on too tight to something that can’t or won’t work for whatever reason you can never move forward with what will work.

Not quitting can lead to a vicious closed-loop internal cycle of thoughts that can have disastrous consequences.

To learn more, continue reading.

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Your ideas matter. Creating your custom pathway to success matters to you. It matters to your family. It matters to your readers, audience, and people who are like you. It matters to the economy and society.

The traditional job market and hierarchies don’t work for most people – only the people at the top. In this article we explore one of the reasons why traditional work settings simply don’t serve most people – institutional bullying.

How can you avoid being bullied and build your freedom-based life? Read more below.

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Deceiving down or faking out the leader as I call it is one of my favorite topics in human psychology. To me it represents just how ingenious the human psyche is. Especially when we get back into a figurative corner.

To learn more about what deceiving down is and how you can use it to your advantage, continue reading below.

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Have you ever been excited about a new job or a move to a new city, but when you started the job or moved, you became withdrawn, tired, or suffered from low mood?

You felt disconnected. You felt somewhat bored.

The reason is that mild depression helps us cope with new things. Suffering from low mood after a major life change, even a change that you want is positive and normal. Those feelings of doubt and lethargy have evolutionary origins.

Learn more about why change, even change you want, can sometimes lead to unexpected feelings and how to cope. Keep reading.

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We continue our journey about the possibilities of your changes and growth by taking a new look at leadership and how it relates to failing.

Failure is a baked-in part of success. You can’t have one without the other.

In my journey, I’ve had multiple failures - many, many bad ideas, websites that didn’t perform, failed business partnerships, rejections, and so on. But I stuck with it until I found what did work.

Failure is not quitting. It’s not an ending. It’s a pivot.

Failure is part of the journey to find what works for YOU!

If you want to explore more about how your failures lead to your success, keep reading.

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The collective consciousness connects us. It is not new age jargon, but something as real as being able to read silent emotional signals that can strengthen communication, engagement, and performance.

The collective consciousness is the ability to think together as a group without communicating through any of the five senses.

It’s very real: in the case of negative emotions, they signal to others that you need their help or cooperation to reach a goal. In business and life, we need to understand that low mood or lethargy (ours and someone else’s) is a signal from a fellow human to cooperate, please.

To learn more about connecting to the collective consciousness you deserve, read more.

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Fear factors are control factors. Something you fear typically has control over you. Think about something you are afraid of like snakes, enclosed spaces, heights, etc. You actively avoid those things. That’s control.

In this article we’re going to explore fear factors first and take a quiz to find yours. Next, we’ll move onto control factors, looking at people that control you, and take a quiz to figure who those people are in your life.

To participate, continue on below.

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The reason that I started this blog is because I had people coming to me for help building a content business. But what I quickly realized is they weren’t ready. You have to shift your mindset BEFORE you start a business versus trying to jump in because you are desperate for change, trying to impress or please someone else, or doing it because others found success.

Being scared, depressed, anxious, worried, angry, jealous, etc. are all normal; however, they come across badly in personal and business settings.

In this article, we’ll explore a few common sources of what and who might be controlling you and how to fix it so you can move on and build your custom pathway to success.

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Prepping has become increasingly more popular and mainstream. People do it because they are afraid and they want something to control.

Prepping gives people a sense of control and power over the unknown. Lining up endless cans of beans gives people a sense of control.

Remember that uncertainty is the central driving force for anxiety. Knowing how many cans of beans you have creates certainty in an uncertain world.

In this article, we’ll look at how prepping relates to daily habits now and ties into your primitive brain, weaving a story that shows you how to use your annoying habits like tapping your foot constantly or overcleaning to your advantage.

To learn more, continue reading.

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Anger gets a bad rap for a good reason, but it can be a benefit to you.

How? Anger can signal to you that people around you don’t have your best interest at heart. Anger can be a primitive way of telling you that you need to move on from someone or something.

To learn more about how anger fuels our success, keep reading.

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Dark thoughts are many and varied. They include anger, a variety of obsessive-compulsive thoughts, and impulses.

The types of those thoughts and how they affect us is different for each person. You may have some or only a few, but those affect your life significantly because you cannot stop thinking about them or acting on them. Or you may end up with many disruptive thoughts that are more fluid, but mild enough to tolerate.

Keep reading and take the quiz to see what might be holding you back.

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