Stepping out into the wild with fellow entrepreneurs brings life-changing moments, inspired breakthroughs, and genuine connections. This is the power of entrepreneur retreats. These are specially curated events where people are brought together in a group and travel to an amazing destination. There, they enjoy delicious food and a new culture while helping each other cultivate their next big step.

Getting what we want out of life often requires learning new skills. When we were kids, we could pick up skills easily — our brains were wired to learn. Even as teenagers, we were quick to learn (not to mention all the free time we had to pursue new interests).

Common sense, Buddhism, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) all tell us that frequent negative thinking causes problems for us. Depression and anxiety are both marked by higher than normal negative thinking, and you even feel bad in your body when your thoughts are pessimistic or hurtful to yourself.

Laughter around the dinner table, someone to call when you get the big news, helping hands when you move — these are some of the joys of having a strong community. But there’s another one that entrepreneurs should take special note of: building community is the fast track to success.

Your next great idea is waiting for you. But it isn’t going to strike if you stay locked in the grind. This great idea is waiting for you on the beach, in the jungle, on the other side of the world. And it’s time you go looking for it at a leadership retreat.

In our culture, we talk endlessly about getting up and getting on your grind. We talk about the insane schedules of CEOs and laugh off our fifth cup of coffee, quipping, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” We brag about how much we are doing, and we wonder how we can optimize our time with gadgets and apps.

We think of breakthroughs as something that comes to us, a freebie from the muse. It’s something we can’t control — we just need to be ready when it hits. But you can create breakthroughs on demand.

Breakthroughs are moments when we see a problem from a new angle, and suddenly get the answer to the problem. It really is a psychological state, relying on that perfect soup of neurotransmitters. Luckily, a lot of people have thought long and hard about this, and have figured it out.

Have you ever tried to use a wrench to loosen a bolt, and it just wouldn’t budge? When you add a wrench extender, all of a sudden it’s easy. Why is that…? Leverage.

As we’ve talked about before, building a network of awesome and inspiring people is a great path to self-improvement. As the saying goes, you are the average of all your friends. If you spend time with lots of high achievers, you’ll naturally take on their approach to life. So you want to do what you can to surround yourself with great people. There is a but…

When you start a new business, the road can be a long one. But it isn’t infinite. So as long as you can keep walking the road, you’ll get there eventually.

The trick is persistence. But how do you get the persistence you need to overcome all the challenges along the way? The secrets below can help.

The word genius comes from Latin, where it means “a guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth…” It’s helpful to think like this: your genius is already with you. So why can it be so hard to get back to it?

Your inner critic is getting in the way. That’s why I’ve put together a handful of strategies to quiet the critic inside and unleash your genius.

When we create our own company, we often start out having to do everything ourselves. Everything from filing our paperwork to creating our promotional copy to working sales — it’s all us.

There’s a certain romance to those early days. But as your company grows (which, one hopes, it will), all of those activities quickly become way too much for one person.

But the skills that built the company in the early days don’t include the big skill you need to learn now: delegating.

We are living through a revolution in how we relate to the office. But the dinosaurs who want to claw us back and the people who want to stay right where they are both have a massive blindspot.

Despite many companies experiencing record profits, work in our society continues to suffer from a lack of consciously created culture.

As people emerge in starts and stops from the pandemic, we have a lot to negotiate. What did we learn during the work from home era?

What if you stopped trying to make yourself “better” and instead made your life better?

Those kinds of resolutions still deliver big, positive changes to your life — but they do it in the most exciting way possible.

Many people start companies thinking they need to directly challenge competitors, and others who don’t have the stomach to put others out of business avoid chasing their dreams. This leads to failure in the first instance and failure to launch in the second.

To succeed in the market, you need to use creativity — not to out-compete others, but to avoid competition in the first place.

What if you did something every year that would change your life forever? With the right approach, you could orchestrate a 12-month-long odyssey into passion, insight and personal breakthroughs.

Travelling can help you take control of your life. As long as you approach it the right way, you can use it to radically improve your life. And hey, you get to see the world while you do it. 

Will the metaverse make us more connected than ever? Or will it further drive the digital wedge between us? And how will it change the world as we know it?

When you smile, you give the true mind in your subconscious the power to regain control of your vision.