by Steve Skojec | Jun 28, 2019 | Food & Health, Intermittent Fasting, Personal Development
Today I read an article about the story of Paul Mason, who was once known as “the world’s fattest man.” Mason’s incredible weight gain, which brought him close to a thousand pounds at his heaviest, made it impossible for him to get out of bed...
by Steve Skojec | Jun 24, 2019 | Personal Development, Work
Some days, it feels like the universe is trying to send you a message. For me, today, it was a reminder that I am so busy trying to figure out how to do good work and provide for my family and work on myself and lose weight and get healthy and adequately de-stress so...
by Steve Skojec | Feb 6, 2016 | Brand Management, Communications, Content Strategy, Personal Development, Publishing, Social Media, Writing
I’ve been in the online content business for a ridiculously long time. I was on the Internet at age 15 (1992) and on local BBS systems before that. Always writing, always debating big concepts. Maybe that’s the problem. Maybe I took it for granted. Maybe I...
by Steve Skojec | Jul 10, 2014 | Creativity, Food & Health, Personal Development
I’ve been working on a number of creative projects lately, and found myself working too hard to make progress on them. I decided to take a look back at this post, which I wrote a couple years ago when I was in better shape and had attained a lot of mental...
by Steve Skojec | Feb 18, 2014 | Insights, Personal Development, Writing
At The Atlantic, Megan McArdle has a piece entitled “Why Writers are the Worst Procrastinators.” It’s begins by plunging immediately into the eerily familiar. Like most writers, I am an inveterate procrastinator. In the course of writing this one...
by Steve Skojec | Apr 3, 2012 | Personal Development
Excuses are deadly. Don’t make them. When you make an excuse, you’re giving yourself permission to fail. People who want to succeed never say “I can’t” or “I couldn’t” or “It wasn’t my fault.” Those...