How to Experience Curating with FAOCAS: “S” is for Share
Share with purpose, use the Experience Curating FAOCAS process to avoid the “Click here, I’m awesome!” trap, and discover other useful tips for sharing well in a world of “no takebacks.”
SASM 029 – 4 Reasons and a Moral Imperative to Unsimplify
This Smart and Simple Matters episode reveals 4 reasons to UNsimplify and if there’s ever a moral imperative to do so. I also answer the question, “Do you need to be worldly to be worthy?” and “Why is wading into the pool of other people’s problems so damn complex?
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SASM 028 – How to Grow Abundance and Combat Stagnation with Charlie Gilkey
This Smart and Simple Matters episode features Charlie Gilkey. We talk about how a philosopher becomes a warrior, why most things you want won’t get you what you need, types of abundance, the small business cycle… and more.
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42 Unusual Ideas To Power Your Remarkable Life (WDS2013 Recap)
How many unusual ideas can one man experience in four days at the World Domination Summit? Plenty… not to mention amazing people, conversations, and food.
Money Problems: Are You a Worshipper, Avoider, Status-Seeker, or Vigilante?
You and I have money problems. It’s a fact of life… but does it have to be this serious? We can overcome the issues that lead to money worship, avoidance, status-seeking, and vigilance by exploring the research and making some small changes.
SASM 025 – Tetris Theory and How to Act Accordingly with Colin Wright
This Smart and Simple Matters episode features Colin Wright. We discuss Tetris Theory, mental frameworks, his new book – Act Accordingly – and why my sports team is better than yours.
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SASM 024 – Reinventing Yourself and Rapidly Reframing Misfortune with Adam Shepard
This Smart and Simple Matters episode features Adam Shepard. We discuss reinventing yourself, reframing misfortune, why budgeting is sexy, life-changing $10 purchases, living in a homeless shelter, and much more.
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How and Why to Lead With “I Love You”
Leading conversations with “I love you” creates big smiles, endless gratitude, and a better world. So why don’t we do this? Discover how to fix this and all the powerful reasons to “Lead With I Love You.”
Pay What You Can for My Products and Services (with QUADRUPLE the Partner Charity Donation)
This is the first and possibly the last pay what you can promotion at Value of Simple. It’s your brief chance to contribute 20% of your transaction to our awesome partner charity – Second Harvest Heartland – and get Start Investing with $100, The Digital Launch Playbook, and/or an Unsexy System Session in the process.
Screw 80-20: Let’s Do 99-1 (A Tribute to Destroying Addictions)
We all have demons. Mine are sugar related and (used to be) video game related. This is a tribute to destroying addictions and proving how far we can go.
49 Powerful Lies We Say and How to Tell the Truth
Learn 49 powerful lies we tell ourselves and how to make yourself (or someone else) speak the truth instead. This carefully curated list will empower you like The Minimalists empowered me.
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38 Game-Changing Experiences for Business and Beyond (NMX 2013)
Expand your view of what’s possible with this vivid recap of my experiences at New Media Expo 2013. You’ll find out how to make free an incentive for your business model, what insane engagement + accountability can do for you, and why “I’m awesome, click here” is a bad business strategy.
How To Extract Superpowers from Your Greatest Weakness
This is a guest post by Shanna Mann. In it, she explains how to extract superpowers from your greatest weakness (you know, the ones holding you back).
SASM 008 – Building Your Personal Brand and Blowing Up Your Box with Colin Wright
This Smart and Simple Matters episode features Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle. Join us to learn about building your personal brand, why you should live like a sphere instead of a box, and how the “team” you’re on can cloud your view of the world.
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27 Simple Sages Reveal How They Organize and Simplify Their Amazing Lives
This is unleashing the wisdom granted by 27 Simple Sages about how to simplify, organize, and be money wise for an amazing life.
The Personal User Guide: Your Most Essential Instruction Manual
The Personal User Guide helps countless people understand what makes them tick. Give yourself this gift and gain the insight of your own instruction manual.
A Statement to Reframe Everything? The Defining Factor is Never Resources, It’s Resourcefulness
Which is more important to you, resources or resourcefulness? This is all about TED, their ideas worth sharing, and my way of sharing epic ideas with you.
The Day After: What Passion Filled Risk and Wild Uncertainty Feels Like
Would there be regret, panic or fear the day after resigning from a job pushing into the six figures? Would the relentless passion and uncertainly of the day before overpower all the other emotions? This is part 2 of my story of resigning from my corporate job to pursue a very different kind of work mission.
The Biggest Risk I Ever Took (and Why I’m Better Off for Being Terrible)
This is the raw confessional of the biggest risk I ever took and why I’m a better man for being a terrible person.
How To Reclaim One Week of Your Life Every Year
You like good sleep and reclaiming one week of your life back every year with little effort? Then read how to deal with the snooze button (or better yet, do away with it completely).