inspiration

It is common to think about what you would like to accomplish. It is less common to think about what must be discarded to make space for your new endeavors. The time must come from somewhere. What do you need to give up to make space for what you would like to achieve?

For the next 10 minutes, you challenge yourself to feel as much pleasure as you possibly can in whatever you're doing. That's it. The only goal is to feel pleasure.

When they introduced this at the retreat, I found myself:

• Taking a deep breath and noticing how nice it felt to just... breathe

• Getting up from the couch and appreciating how it felt

My entire life changed when I realized one truth:

You have to sacrifice short-term freedom in order to earn long-term freedom.

The things that make you feel happy in the present are often at odds with the things that make you feel happy in the future.

Acting on short-term freedom—choosing to do the things that create instant happiness—may actually har

3 Reasons to "Sell" in Life

Last week, investor Bill Ackman hosted a fireside chat conversation in Omaha in front of a standing room only crowd of 500+ investors.

Ackman was joined onstage by Ryan Israel, his partner and Chief Investment Officer.

During the conversation, an audience member asked Israel a deceptively simple question:

"How do you know wh