by Michael Thompson | Jun 8, 2020 | Confidence, Habits, Likeability, Personal Development, Self Awareness
You don’t have to jump out of a plane or face your biggest fear to begin to successfully build your confidence. All big things, start small. “We’re going to try something a bit different. I want you to stand up and press the back of your heels together...
by Michael Thompson | Jun 3, 2020 | Kindness, Leadership, Life, Life Lessons, Personal Development, Relationships, Self Awareness, social awareness / intelligence
open-minded people Every Monday, for going on three years, I sit down and reach out to someone who is doing something I admire requesting a chance to speak with them. I try not to prepare too many talking points and prefer to see where the conversation takes us. One...
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 | Apr 14, 2020 | Confidence, Happiness, Inspiration, Life Lessons, Personal Development, Self Awareness
The 9 behaviors that are making you unhappy – When things aren’t adding up in your life, start subtracting. On my 39th birthday, a friend of mine asked me a question that caught me off guard: “Most people spend the first half of their lives collecting, and the...
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...