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How to Become Self Aware (Podcast)
What is self-awareness? Why is it important? And how can you develop it? This is an interview I recorded with Will Penney at the Be...

Michael Pietrzak
Feb 18, 202129 min read


What You Think is What You Get (Interview)
How are your unhelpful thoughts getting in your way? And How can you develop a growth mindset and "growth hack" yourself?

Michael Pietrzak
Feb 8, 202119 min read


How to Love Your Problems
The call I dreaded for years came at 7:03 p.m. on Thursday night last week. Even before I picked up the phone, I knew: My dad had passed.

Michael Pietrzak
Nov 20, 20208 min read


How to Create Job Security for Life
Here’s how you can make yourself more indestructible.

Michael Pietrzak
Oct 20, 20208 min read


The Complete Guide to Money: How to Create the Wealth You’ve Been Seeking Your Whole Life
Originally published at https://www.success.com on September 1, 2020. “Hey, I want to make $10,000 over the Labor Day weekend.” It was my...

Michael Pietrzak
Sep 15, 202020 min read


Top 10 Lessons from Tony Robbins’ Unleash the Power Within (Virtual) 2020
Last month I had the privilege of being put through the gauntlet of Tony Robbins’ flagship seminar, Unleash the Power Within—the first...

Michael Pietrzak
Aug 6, 20207 min read


The Complete Guide to Self-Awareness & Personal Growth
Originally published at https://www.success.com on June 15, 2020. You wake one morning in a clearing in the woods. A stream runs off into...

Michael Pietrzak
Jun 16, 202022 min read


Why Focusing on Your Personal Growth Now Is More Important Than Ever
Originally published at https://www.success.com on May 26, 2020. Five frogs are sitting on a log and four decide to jump off. How many...

Michael Pietrzak
Jun 4, 202016 min read


This Pandemic Is Our Teacher
Originally published at www.success.com on April 26, 2020. It occurred to me earlier today that perhaps I should not write this article....

Michael Pietrzak
May 7, 20209 min read


How to Lead in a Crisis
Originally published at https://www.success.com on March 27, 2020. When Napoleon marched an army of 685,000 men into Russia in June 1812,...

Michael Pietrzak
Apr 2, 202010 min read


25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read
Originally published at https://www.success.com on March 16, 2020. The solution to every problem you’ve ever had is written in a book...

Michael Pietrzak
Mar 19, 202013 min read


Coronavirus or Fear: What’s Worse?
Originally published at https://www.success.com on March 11, 2020. Today I am eating my words. Exactly one month ago, in our daily chat...

Michael Pietrzak
Mar 14, 20205 min read


You Can Choose Happiness—Here’s How
Originally published at https://www.success.com on February 18, 2020. I tried codependency once. For five years she and I tried to break...

Michael Pietrzak
Feb 20, 202010 min read


Patience Is a Superpower
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2020 print issue of SUCCESS magazine. When three large men lifted me off the...

Michael Pietrzak
Jan 19, 20208 min read


How to Appreciate Yourself
Originally published at https://www.success.com on November 27, 2019. John was born on Thanksgiving Day, 1954, but for him, life wasn’t...

Michael Pietrzak
Dec 9, 20199 min read


10 Ways to Cultivate Fearlessness
Originally published at https://www.success.com on October 31, 2019. At age 75, actor Henry Fonda was still throwing up before getting on...

Michael Pietrzak
Nov 4, 20199 min read


How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset
Originally published at success.com Oct. 8, 2019 Vasily Alekseyev was tricked into lifting 500 pounds over his head. Until 1970, many...

Michael Pietrzak
Oct 9, 20199 min read


Want to Be a Leader? Lead Yourself First
Originally published at https://www.success.com on September 11, 2019. At 16, Nero became the emperor of the most powerful civilization...

Michael Pietrzak
Sep 18, 20199 min read


Make Work Fun Again
Originally published at https://www.success.com on August 28, 2019 I play with pickaxes, swords and chickens. You see, I’m a gamer. At...

Michael Pietrzak
Aug 30, 20196 min read
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