We live in a world of excuses. We live in a world of blame. Everywhere you look, someone has an external reason why they: couldn’t ___ didn’t ___ can’t ___ haven’t ___ are ___ have…
Alignmentality Posts
When we watch movies today, we walk away with the sense that boldness is about slaying dragons and pulling out grenade pins with your teeth. This is idiotic. Besides, it’s much easier to slay a…
In this world there are introverts and extroverts. And the world needs both. Most of us fall somewhere between the two extremes of this spectrum. Perhaps some people can switch between either one. And there…
In almost any video game you’ve ever played, there was always a goal…always a mission: to beat the game. But what about the game of life? Is there no goal to life? No final mission?…
For most of my life I have erred on the side of trying to be tough. Even though I would fail at times, usually I would push myself to do the hard thing. But as…
“Think, think! What do I do!?” — Sometimes we’re faced with decisions we have to make. And sometimes these decisions need to be made rather quickly, whether it’s over the course of a few days…
I recently attended a lecture by a researcher who studies the academic landscape in America. The burning question she and her team were attempting to answer is “What is it that leads students into success…
I’ve heard a lot of people tell me that they can’t do something they want to do because they’re being held back by their circumstances. Yet there are people who have had similar (or worse)…
The word “addiction” is misleading. When someone says they have an addiction, you immediately think something’s wrong with them. But there really is nothing more that’s wrong with them than most of us…because, at the…
You may have noticed that I’ve been blogging a lot recently. This is because I made a pact with a friend. He has always wanted to write a book, but has never gotten around to…