by Michael Thompson | May 1, 2019 | Career Advice, Communication Skills, Inspiration, Leadership, Likeability, Personal Development, Relationships
“The definition of success is when the people you love, actually love you back.” — Warren Buffett The beauty of getting older is that patterns begin to emerge. One of the most glaring is that the best communicators are the very ones who have the most meaningful...
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...
by Michael Thompson | Feb 9, 2019 | Inspiration, Life Lessons, Love, Personal Development, Relationships
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. Simplicity is the key to brilliance” — Bruce Lee A few weeks ago, on my birthday, my wife and I sat together on our terrace watching a video she had put together from all of my friends and...
by Michael Thompson | Sep 12, 2018 | Career Advice, Creativity, Habits, Inspiration, Learning, Life Lessons, Personal Development, Self Awareness, Self Help
“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this...
by Michael Thompson | Sep 5, 2018 | Life, Life Lessons, Love, Personal Development, Relationships, Self Awareness
I was walking the rainy streets of Barcelona with a girl I had just met. It was a Wednesday, and little did I know, I was 45 seconds away from seeing my future. As we crossed the street, the clouds parted, and the first ray of sunshine kissed the face of this...
by Michael Thompson | Aug 14, 2018 | Communication Skills, Motivation, Personal Development, Relationships, Self-help
Three months ago, my dad and I were holed up in a Central American hotel waiting for me to testify regarding a decade long court battle. Between shitty cups of coffee, and my first taste of Sports Center in eight years, my dad and I sat around and talked about life,...
