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...
by Michael Thompson | Feb 23, 2018 | Life, Life Lessons, Love, Personal Development, Self Awareness, Success
Originally appeared on Thought Catalog Recently a friend of mine told me that as human beings we spend the first half of our lives collecting, and the second half of our lives determining what to keep. Having just celebrated my 39th birthday these words hit home and...
