Ever wonder if you’re working on the right stuff?  Do you wonder if what you’re doing will actually work out and create the big profits and growth you’re hoping for? A weird thing happens when humans work on big, long term projects. Our brain plays tricks on… Read More

There’s a popular saying amongst entrepreneurs:   “Focus on your strengths and outsource your weaknesses” And it’s mostly true. A handful of business owners have a tremendous advantage: They know exactly when not to follow this principle. And they rocket ahead of everyone else because they’re seeing the… Read More

Ambitious people are hell-bent on time management.  Being on the quest for self improvement – particularly as an aspiring entrepreneur – is to be obsessed with optimizing the minutes of your day.  Do you have the time optimization obsession?  Morning rituals. Color-coded calendars.  Elaborate daily planner/journals.  The… Read More

Ever asked yourself why it feels like you’re not getting much meaningful stuff done, even as you’re wrapping up a crazy, busy whirlwind of a day?   The gap between busyness and high leverage effectiveness is where entrepreneurial dreams go to die.  This gap is the easiest… Read More

Ever felt ashamed to add tiny to-do items to your list?  Entrepreneur life is about big ambitions and bigger personal expectations. Putting together a to-do list or project plan means setting big, exciting objectives. Nothing feels better than a whiteboard session where you write down bold goals… Read More

The tendency to put things off to “later this evening” is the most common day-to-day manifestation of self-sabotage and procrastination. We see it all the time here at Commit Action.  The psychology that explains it isn’t even particularly deep: When you tell yourself you’ll get to that… Read More

In my article last week we talked about magnetically attracting hordes of customers to your business with the powers of evolutionary psychology.  When you put marketing together with psychology, customer-acquisition magic happens.  This doesn’t work with the pop-psychology or the latest bestselling self-help book. It works with… Read More

Confession: I won the lottery.  I started out my career as an entrepreneur, by going deep into psychology.  All I wanted was to build a psychotherapy practice.  And for the longest time, I thought that if I could only perfect my practice of psychology enough… flocks of… Read More

You’re not getting more distracted or more stressed out. You’re not less focused.  We all are.  Smartphones and the social media we access through them have created an attention economy that is wrecking havoc on our brains.  You and your attention are the product that billion dollar… Read More