The Power of Slowing Down

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ~Andy Goldsworthy As a child, I always loved snow. In fact, while living in Switzerland, one of the coolest birthday gifts I would receive from my brother was a snowman. So my recent vacation in Odessa-- my...

New Year Resolutions

If you are like me, you are probably planning your New Year resolutions as you read this. You may also know that most people struggle to follow through with their goals. Therefore I would like to share the key steps that have helped me define and follow through with...

Why is it so hard to be happy and successful?

Really I watched A Star Is Born, with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. I really loved this film! Let me share with you why: It was touching to see how the main character, Jackson Maine was this super successful pop star, famous, rich who had huge audiences and lived the...

Toxic praise?

Having just married, I naturally think about how I would raise my kids. I also ask myself whether success for kids is determined by effort or talent. What I didn't think was that something a simple as the manner we praise our kids could have dramatic consequences:...

Do you love rats?

“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.’’- Aristotle Even if your answer is not yes, you probably love the life of a rat-racer: Chasing one thing after the other, while not giving yourself a moment to enjoy something...

How to create weekly challenges and immediately level up your game

We all have big goals. And we all want to witness a real change in our lives. So we learn to build habits that move us towards the life we want to experience. However, keeping habits can often become extremely boring, which is why we often stop doing them. We have...

Find the love of your life with these tips

Finding love can seem so brutally difficult to many. This is especially frustrating as most of us believe at some level that we are worthy of love.  To add salt to the wound, it becomes even more painful when we see so many others flourishing in with their partners....

The best tools to eliminate anxiety

Whether it is a business meeting, a hot date, or a big sports competition, we all have moments in life that raise our pulse. For such occasions, I want to share two tools that have literally transformed my life. The first tool is called “foreburning.” “Foreburning” is...

Why we do what we do, without knowing it…

Why is so much of our thinking (that underpins most of our behavior, determines our choices, our happiness, and our lives) invisible to us, and why are our unconscious desires so often the exact opposite to what we think we visibly want? This is one of the key...

Day 6: Enjoy Your Food (without over-eating)

When I was 11, I watched a movie with my brother where people were eating insects. I screamed: "Wow, that is so disgusting, how can they do that?" Then my brother told me something that changed the way I saw food: He responded: "We humans eat cows, chickens and all...

Day 11: Visualizing your future self

On a cold wet day, on May 6th, 1954, in Oxford, a young runner from a regular working class family, made the impossible possible. Roger Bannister broke the world record by running a mile in under 4 minutes (in 3:59.04  minutes). He wrote history. But that was just the...

Toxic praise?

Having just married, I naturally think about how I would raise my kids. I also ask myself whether success for kids is determined by effort or talent. What I didn't think was that something a simple as the manner we praise our kids could have dramatic consequences:...

The 5 Things I Learned From Managing Some Of The World’s Best Tennis Players

As a kid, I always dreamt of becoming a tennis player. Little did I know that as an adult I would be sitting in the player’s boxes as part of the entourage for current world number one, Novak Djokovic, the flamboyant Marat Safin, and some of the other top players in...

How human are you?

As a huge animal lover, I used to get quite upset when people asked me not to treat my puppy like a human being. After all, to me he was like a true friend. However, over time, I started thinking what makes us human, and different from the world of animals, and to...

The mind blowing power of attention

In a famous experiment, Mike Merzenich taped the fingers of monkeys each day for 100 minutes to a sensor. At the same time they received headphones with music. He did this for 6 weeks. Some of the monkeys were taught to focus on the feelings resulting from the sensors...

Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education

With the release of an updated EDUCAUSE on Campus toolkit, Exploring and Designing Breakthrough Models in Higher Education, Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) completes a trio of publications intended to guide those of you who are interested in making the move...

My first 2 weeks as a second-time dad!

Learning from past mistakes and overcoming three main challenges to stay productive and disciplined even while everything else at home seems to be falling upside down! How time flies! Two weeks ago, my wife started getting her first serious contractions. Every few...

Anti-habits and the curse of compounding

Albert Einstein called “Compounding” the world’s 8th wonder because over time an asset can grow exponentially. For example, say you invest $ 1,000 today and generate a return of 10%.  In one year, you will have accumulated $ 1,100. In year two, you will have...

How To Wake Up By 5 Am Easily And Effortlessly!

Do you know this feeling of hearing the sound of your alarm go off, and you think the world is going to crash onto your head. You stretch your arm, somehow manage to get hold of your phone and switch the snooze button, before falling asleep again. And then you finally...

The one step to experiencing unprecedented success!

“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you could multiply your success in any area of your life, by taking one single step, would that sound like a fair bargain? Well, the good news is YOU CAN! And the single step is pretty straight...

Why Love matters!

Research has shown on numerous occasions that married people live a healthier life physically and spiritually, recover better from diseases, and live a healthier lifestyle. According to an article from Harvard Health Publications, a survey of 127,545 men proved that...

Toxic praise?

Having just married, I naturally think about how I would raise my kids. I also ask myself whether success for kids is determined by effort or talent. What I didn't think was that something a simple as the manner we praise our kids could have dramatic consequences:...

I was told I wasn’t good enough: Why I created the High Performance Project

The reason I have created the High Performance Project Group starts with my story of when I was a small kid who had learning disabilities. These disabilities included motor motion disorder, delayed speech and poor vision, amongst other things. Nevertheless, I was this...

The best tools to eliminate anxiety

Whether it is a business meeting, a hot date, or a big sports competition, we all have moments in life that raise our pulse. For such occasions, I want to share two tools that have literally transformed my life. The first tool is called “foreburning.” “Foreburning” is...

Day 3: The Transitional Routine

I am sitting here at home, trying to write, while my youngest son keeps jumping on me and seeking my attention. One reason why staying home all day with the family, while trying to be productive, is so difficult for me is because it feels like I am always rushing from...

How To Wake Up By 5 Am Easily And Effortlessly!

Do you know this feeling of hearing the sound of your alarm go off, and you think the world is going to crash onto your head. You stretch your arm, somehow manage to get hold of your phone and switch the snooze button, before falling asleep again. And then you finally...

Day 7: Strengthen your most important relationships

It’s remarkable how creative people get when locked up in their homes! During the last few days, I have received so many hilarious clips on my phone that made me almost die from laughter. From all of them, I hate to admit it, but this is my favorite.Don’t get me...

Never Single Again!

This was initially going to be the name of my first book which will be out in December. I am now working on a new name, but the topic of the book will remain the same, and reflects the subject I enjoy exploring most, namely: how do people achieve breakthrough's? For...

How to create weekly challenges and immediately level up your game

We all have big goals. And we all want to witness a real change in our lives. So we learn to build habits that move us towards the life we want to experience. However, keeping habits can often become extremely boring, which is why we often stop doing them. We have...

6 Ways To Find The Motivation To Make 2016 Your Best Year Ever!

With less than a month to go, you are probably thinking about some of your key New Year Resolutions- or maybe not. If you are like most people, you probably feel frustrated of having set yourself so many goals, but never having followed through. But deep down, you...

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