Productivity

The Top 5 Strategies Business Growth Consultants Use to Amplify Your Success

Oct 4, 20236 min read

The Top 5 Strategies Business Growth Consultants Use to Amplify Your Success

Taking an entrepreneurial journey is a unique blend of exhilaration and challenge, especially for solopreneurs and small business owners....

Michael Pietrzak

Jan 11, 20237 min read

Habits

This is Why You Can’t Slow Down

By Mike Pietrzak “I need to rest, but I feel guilty taking a break... Every time I stop “doing”, I feel this unease and within a couple...

Beyond Resolutions: The Complete Guide to Achieving Your 2023 New Year Goals

Michael Pietrzak

Dec 1, 202231 min read

Purpose

Beyond Resolutions: The Complete Guide to Achieving Your 2023 New Year Goals

By Mike Pietrzak Author’s note: This is an updated version of 2021s guide, which generated a flood of positive comments. It’s packed with...

How Entrepreneurs can Leverage Flow State

Michael Pietrzak

Nov 23, 20228 min read

Productivity

How Entrepreneurs can Leverage Flow State

By Mike Pietrzak Author Steven Kotler has been stalking me. No, not in person, but all over my social media feed. His Instagram ads tell...

24 Lessons from Tony Robbins Business Mastery—Part Four, Action

Michael Pietrzak

Sep 14, 20229 min read

Habits

24 Lessons from Tony Robbins Business Mastery—Part Four, Action

—By Mike Pietrzak One year ago I put myself through the odyssey of Tony Robbins’ Business Mastery, and on this anniversary I'm sharing my...

Michael Pietrzak

Feb 4, 20225 min read

Self-awareness

How to Outwit Imposter Syndrome

by Mike Pietrzak I read a Facebook comment yesterday that went something like, “It amazes me, all these coaches who get up on stage...

Michael Pietrzak

Jan 10, 20227 min read

Purpose

40 Lessons at 40

Let's swim, dad! I turned 40 last month and have been eagerly anticipating my turn to jump on the “x pieces of wisdom at age x”...

The Art of Problem-Solving: 4 Creative Strategies to Tackle Your Biggest Obstacles

Michael Pietrzak

Aug 23, 202112 min read

Productivity

The Art of Problem-Solving: 4 Creative Strategies to Tackle Your Biggest Obstacles

Originally published at success.com on August 11, 2021. Problems never stop. To be alive means constant challenges, big and small. Life’s...

The Solopreneur’s Guide to Email Marketing

Michael Pietrzak

Jun 1, 202126 min read

Business

The Solopreneur’s Guide to Email Marketing

Originally published at success.com on May 20, 2021. In 2015 I devoured Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Workweek and fell so deeply in love with the...

Michael Pietrzak

Jan 18, 20219 min read

Habits

Your One Goal for 2021

Originally published at https://www.success.com on December 30, 2020. We made it through 2020! Grab some bubbly, one of those leftover...

Beyond Resolutions: The Complete Guide to Achieving Your 2021 New Year Goals

Michael Pietrzak

Dec 2, 202030 min read

Habits

Beyond Resolutions: The Complete Guide to Achieving Your 2021 New Year Goals

Originally published at https://www.success.com on December 1, 2020. Author’s note: This is an updated version of 2020’s guide, which...

Michael Pietrzak

Jul 15, 20209 min read

Habits

10 Habits to Avoid After Lockdown

Originally published at https://www.success.com on July 13, 2020. When’s the best time to quit smoking or start a new exercise routine?...

Why Focusing on Your Personal Growth Now Is More Important Than Ever

Michael Pietrzak

Jun 4, 202016 min read

Habits

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...

12 Efficiency Secrets of the World’s Busiest People

Michael Pietrzak

Apr 25, 20209 min read

Habits

12 Efficiency Secrets of the World’s Busiest People

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2020 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Picture this. On Friday morning you rush to the hospital...

25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Michael Pietrzak

Mar 19, 202013 min read

Productivity

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...

Beyond Resolutions: The Complete Guide to Achieving Your New Year Goals

Michael Pietrzak

Jan 7, 202026 min read

Habits

Beyond Resolutions: The Complete Guide to Achieving Your New Year Goals

Originally published at success.com on January 1st, 2020. “You need to start smoking again.” That was the most sincere, heartfelt advice...

Michael Pietrzak

Nov 21, 20199 min read

Business

10 Business Lessons From a Baby

Originally published at https://www.success.com on November 19, 2019. My wife is one of these effortless optimists who’s happiest working...

Michael Pietrzak

Aug 30, 20196 min read

Productivity

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...

6 Ways to Find Solitude, and Why It Matters

Michael Pietrzak

Aug 19, 20197 min read

Morning Routines

6 Ways to Find Solitude, and Why It Matters

Originally published at https://www.success.com on June 18, 2019. On a wet Saturday morning in 2011, I dragged myself into the election...

How to Create a Bulletproof Morning Routine

Michael Pietrzak

Aug 8, 20197 min read

Habits

How to Create a Bulletproof Morning Routine

Originally published at www.success.com on February 18, 2019. I woke at noon and saw no reason to get out of bed. It was a Wednesday. I...