Do you want to live longer?

“If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase long life, beauty, happiness, strength.” - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddhartha, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C. Most people dream to have a long and healthy life. Of course, there...

The one secret to a better life

In my quest to understand what leads certain people to excel, and others to fail, I came across the theory of a “growth mindset”, introduced by Carol S. Dweck: In her book Mindset, she argues that personality and skills are not a fixed trait but rather something we...

Who will be the next big tennis star?

People always ask me to predict who the next top tennis player will be. Let me start by saying tennis is an extremely tough sport. Kids need to train many hours from an early age, while parents need to invest their savings to support their dreams to become tennis...

Day 2: Calming the mind

I used to love horror movies, like The Birds from Alfred Hitchcock or the Poltergeist movies by Brian Gibson. The problem was that I would often feel so anxious about any sounds I would hear, and any shadows I would see, that it would take me hours to fall asleep....

What Makes Nadal Superhuman

Ambitious individuals like entrepreneurs and entertainers love watching professional tennis because it is such a tough sport. Every point is a battle, and no matter what the score it is, anything can happen until you win the last point. To make things worse -- by the...

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...

Day 5: Prioritize Sleep

Today, I wanted to take a 20-minute nap. Instead, I woke up 2 hours later, feeling grumpy and tired. I felt lousy most of the day, started arguing with my wife about the most stupid things and kept losing my patience with my kids- all things I do not feel very proud...

The Connection between Friends and Success. – And Why They Matter?

"If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas." - Proverb If success is what you really want, then ask these questions to yourself: Who are the people you are surrounding yourself with? Are they helping you achieving your life goals? The reason why these...

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...

The #1 Trait For A Better Life

If you have been watching the Australian Open, you may have asked yourself: “How do young individuals like Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka push themselves rally after rally and match after match to perform at such an exceptional level?” What makes them so exceptional?...

The First Step To Finding Love

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue Finding true love is critical. This has been confirmed by multiple studies that have shown on that married people live a healthier life physically and...

How Did You Fall Into That Ditch?

As humans, we always want something more or better. This is the engine of evolution and progress. Whether we want to find a partner, stay alone, be loved, or be rejected these are all wants or purposes. A purpose is a change we want to achieve, because we think it...

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...

5 Morning Habits of the Ultra-Successful

After years and years of studying and managing some of the best of all-time, you start to see many commonalities among them. What is it that they do? What separates them from the pack? What’s the difference between good and great? Those are the questions I try to...

5 Beneficial Side Effects of Kindness

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." --Bob Hope When we think of side effects, the first thing that springs to mind are the side effects of drugs. But who'd have thought that kindness could have side effects, too? Well,...

What do you think is possible?

Up until 1954, no person ever managed to run a mile under 4 minutes. This seemed beyond the human limit. Doctors and scientists believed man kind had reached a record that could not be broken. Until Roger Bannister came along. He claimed it was possible and trained as...

Would you like to live longer?

In an amazing study, Danner, Snowdon and Friesen wanted to investigate the criteria’s that prolong our lives. They took the samples of 678 nuns, from the years between 1930-1940, who were on average 22 years old, and evaluated autobiographies they had written when...

The one trait you need for high performance!

In a study conducted in 1993 for the now famous paper, “The Role of Deliberate Practice”, three psychologists analyzed what distinguished ten of the best violin students from the Music Academy of West Berlin, who could become international soloists, from ten good...

What Makes Nadal Superhuman

Ambitious individuals like entrepreneurs and entertainers love watching professional tennis because it is such a tough sport. Every point is a battle, and no matter what the score it is, anything can happen until you win the last point. To make things worse -- by the...

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...

The Wealthy And The Rich

I know what’s your first question is. What’s the difference between being wealthy and being rich? Being wealthy and being rich synonymously involves with having a lot of money. But, the main difference between wealthy people and rich people is knowledge. Wealthy...

Day 9: Do one act of kindness

I recently watched a Ted Talk with professor Stephen Post who reveals that doing acts of kindness help us live longer, healthier and happier.According to him, just the mere thought of doing something kind to others makes us feel good as it releases hormones like...

How to instantly gain confidence

As a child, I remember looking up towards the kids who expressed confidence. I quickly realized that confidence is one of the key recipes for success. I knew this was a trait I would have to have, in order to be successful. So I tried to imitate those confident guys,...

Why do top performers love pain?

Last month I visited Odessa which really is an awesome city. And to sweeten the trip, my parents in law booked my wife and me a daily 90 minute Thai massage. These daily treatments were a true highlight for us. But at the same time,  I noticed something very strange:...

Changing the Paradigm on failure

We have all heard how important it is to learn from failures, and that making mistakes is actually important. However saying that we encourage people to do and learn from mistakes is of course not the same as creating a safe environment for people to do so. In a study...

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...

Making Peace with Stress

5 days of pure relaxation. This has been our schedule here in Crete, which is one of the most beautiful places I know. Five days in which I turned off my phone, left the world behind me, and split my time between lying in the sun, and diving into the cool deep waters...

How to stop messing up under pressure

I just got back from Australia a few days ago and wanted to share with one huge insight from this trip! Everyone is still talking about the unbelievable Roger Federer, who at the age of 36 looks fresher than ever. He is the perfect role model and demonstrates true...

Day 12: Powerblocks

This morning I woke up and realized I have been pretty distracted throughout the last two weeks: I have been sitting home obsessing with the news and everything that is going on in the world. My kids have been home demanding my attention. And my wife needed some...

Why you need to become an actor!

One of the funniest moments as the former agent of world number, Novak Djokovic, was seeing him impersonate his fellow players, following the US Open final in 2007 (You can see it here: Djokovic imitates Sharapova and Nadal). At the time, I thought that my client was...

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