This is my story, the short version. I was a talented kid interested in music, martial arts, painting, gardening, science fiction, and any book I could get my hands on. I went to college when I was fifteen. I was a workaholic and anorexic by the time I was twenty. I burned out after I got a degree in classical violin performance and got a job at a wire rope factory. I tried to become a rock star and joined five different bands at the same time eventually becoming a music teacher obsessed with human development and frustrated because I knew I wasn’t fulfilling my potential. I developed chronic fatigue and sugar addictions I couldn’t break, I became anxious and obsessive-compulsive with a foggy mind, I felt full body pain twenty-four hours a day, and got sick every single week due to a compromised immune system. Then, my oldest friend shot himself in the head; I picked up part of his share of the rent and moved out the same month I maxed the limit on every credit card I had. Then I came to the realization that I was living in a fantasy world of big dreams and ineptitude. I began to focus on my day-to-day existence. I began to coach myself using the fundamentals of learning theory and everything I’d learned about self-development, philosophy, and behavioral science without even knowing that’s what it was called. I asked myself what I could do today that would make tomorrow better. I became debt-free while living on the poverty line and slowly built a future I could be proud of through humble steps. Now, I advise and counsel powerful people. I coach on decision-making, strategy, and optimizing for performance and happiness at the same time. It was a long road to get where I am today. But now I am a man who will never stop. You can be one too. #selfdevelopment #mentalframeworks #motivation #mindset
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