by Michael Thompson | May 28, 2020 | Habits, Happiness, Life Lessons, mental health, Self Awareness
One of the best decisions you can make is to learn how to wake up not feeling stressed out. The 6 tips below can help with this. My wife and I have two boys, aged 2 and 5. Every day for the first year of each of their lives, they’d wake up and immediately start...
by Michael Thompson | May 18, 2020 | Confidence, Habits, Kindness, Leadership, Likeability, Relationships, social awareness / intelligence
If you are going to steal from people, make sure it is the qualities of kind people. As a shy kid, I was in awe of confident people. The way they moved. The way they spoke. This admiration continued with me well into my thirties. I wanted to be like them. Today,...
by Michael Thompson | May 6, 2020 | Confidence, Habits, Inspiration, Learning, Life Lessons, Personal Development
When it comes to making an impact in the world, all the good habits in the world are worthless if you don’t get rid of your bad habits. “Do you really need to build more good habits? From where I’m sitting you already do a lot of good things. But you’re bad...
by Michael Thompson | Apr 26, 2020 | Career Advice, Communication Skills, Confidence, Habits, Relationships, social awareness / intelligence
One of the key factors to leading a successful career and impactful life is learning how to play well with other – below are the 5 key traits of socially intelligent people according to Dr. Karl Albrecht. I asked Kristina Howard, managing director at Tusk...
by Michael Thompson | Apr 19, 2020 | Career Advice, Communication Skills, Habits, Leadership, Public Speaking Skills, Relationships
When it comes to advancing in our careers few exercises speed up this process faster than improving our public speaking skills. Growing up, legendary investor Warren Buffett was terrified of speaking in public. However, he realized he’d never make the type of impact...
by Michael Thompson | Feb 9, 2019 | Career Advice, Confidence, Creativity, Habits, Inspiration, Life Lessons, Love, Motivation, Personal Development, Relationships, Self-help, Success
“The saddest part about getting older is seeing how intellectually dead some of my friends have chose to become.” My dad shared the words above with me at the beginning of 2018 when talking about the realities of getting older. Needless to say, they hit me like a ton...
