Archives for April 2023

One Tragic Mistake Too Many People Make Every Single Day

04.25.2023 by Marc Chernoff // 28 Comments

Busyness… is an illness.

On a chilly January morning just inside the entryway to a Washington D.C. subway station, a young man took his violin out of its case and brought it up to his shoulder. He was dressed in regular clothes — just jeans and a t-shirt. And although he had a face many people found attractive, on this particular morning it was mostly obscured by a dark baseball cap and shaggy brown hair.

After plucking the strings for a couple minutes to tune his instrument, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a [Read more…]

20 Little Things to Remember When Rejection Hurts

04.23.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 21 Comments

Be OK with walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject what’s not right for you.

As you look back on your life, you will realize that many of the times you thought you were being rejected by someone or from something you wanted, you were in fact being redirected to someone or something you needed. Seeing this when you’re in the midst of feeling rejected, however, is quite tough. I know because I’ve been there…

As soon as someone critiques, criticizes, and pushes you away — as soon as you are rejected — you [Read more…]

5 Brutal Lessons that Ultimately Make Life Beautiful

04.06.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 11 Comments

The most common reason for our collective suffering on an average day is our resistance to the truth.

Sometimes it’s brutally hard to accept life’s greatest lessons, and yet we must.

Because it’s lessons like these that ultimately make our lives beautiful, by showing us how to thrive even through the toughest of times:

1. Everyone and everything in life is limited.

You can never read all the books you want to read. You can never train yourself in all the skill sets you want to have. You can never be [Read more…]

One Simple Perspective Shift that Will Change the Way You See the World

04.03.2023 by Marc Chernoff // 15 Comments

As human beings, we subconsciously tell ourselves stories pretty much every waking minute of our lives. And these stories we tell ourselves don’t just change how we feel, they actually change what we see, what we experience, and what we know to be true. This is one of the primary reasons multiple people can go through the same experience, but interpret it differently. Each of us may enter a shared experience with a different story echoing through our mind, and our unique story — our inner dialog — alters the way we feel. So each of us exits this shared experience with a different perspective on what just happened. And sometimes these differences literally make [Read more…]

14 Rules for Being YOU Today

04.02.2023 by Angel Chernoff // 23 Comments

Be yourself. Trying to be anyone else is a waste of the person you are. Embrace that individual inside you that has ideas, strengths, and beauty like no one else. Be the person you know yourself to be — the best version of you — on your terms. And above all, be true to YOU — if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Starting today…

1. Get your priorities straight.

Twenty years from now it won’t really matter what shoes you wore today, how your hair looked, or what brand of jeans you bought. What will matter is [Read more…]