There’s no single ‘right’ decision. Life’s not binary—it’s dominoes.
Choose thoughtfully, move boldly, adapt relentlessly.

Waiting for the perfect choice is just another way to stay stuck. #Decisions #LifeDesign

Unleash Smile 2/10
Joseph began with The Ultimate Success Formula — five steps that apply to anything you want in life: know your outcome, know your reasons why, take massive action, notice what you’re getting, and change your approach. 🎯
#SuccessFormula #LeadershipTools #LifeDesign

We talk about knowing what we want, but how often do we define it clearly enough to move toward it?
Joseph McClendon’s Ultimate Success Formula reminded me: clarity without motion is just fantasy.
🔗 New blog: https://www.emberhart.com/the-ultimate-success-formula-day-two-of-joseph-mcclendons-unleash-the-power-within/
#SuccessFormula #PersonalGrowth #LeadershipMindset #UPW #LifeDesign #EmberhartJourney

💡 Unleash Within 2/10
Life runs on patterns. The secret?
1️⃣ Recognize them
2️⃣ Use them
3️⃣ Create your own
When you master life’s patterns, you stop reacting and start shaping your destiny.
#LifeDesign #MindsetMatters #PersonalEvolution #LifeOfPurpose

Today I choose small wins.
A walk + a good meal + one new step toward my goal. 🧭

Not everything has to happen at once.
Moving forward a little every day is enough. 💪✨

#MindfulSuccess #LifeDesign
#SelfGrowth #HealthyHabits #Motivation #DailyProgress
#Wellbeing #MindsetMatters #Focus
#LifestyleDesign #KeepGoing

You Unstoppable 5/10
Perspective shapes your path. 🔭
The meaning you assign to each experience determines how far you’ll go.
#PerspectiveMatters #LifeDesign #MentalResilience

Did you know One Community's complete social media strategy is also open source, replicable, and globally collaborative? Here's our page about how to replicate, modify, and contribute to it.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/open-source-social-media-strategy/

#PurposeDriven #WorkLifeBalance #MeaningfulLiving #Motivation #Wellbeing #MindfulLiving #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #IntentionalLiving #Inspiration

FOMO vs. Agency
We chase everything and commit to nothing. Agency is the discipline of depth — the power to choose what truly matters. https://www.tiktok.com/@emberhartco/video/7554654546321100054
#Focus #Clarity #Purpose #MindsetShift #LifeDesign #EmberhartPodcast

Inventing Positivity 3/10
This practice isn’t just about noticing good things—it’s about understanding the choices, efforts, and circumstances that make them possible. 🔍
#Reflection #IntentionalLiving #LifeDesign #LifeOfPurpose

What if success wasn’t what you achieve, but what you choose to notice each night? 🌙 New video: how 3 simple reflections reshape tomorrow.
Watch: https://youtu.be/bKSIrrzj9-U
#Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #PositiveThinking #Leadership #EmberhartPodcast #FutureHer

Real Talk on Relocating—The Good, the Not-So-Great, and Tips to Crush Your Next Chapter

Want details? Watch my latest YouTube video [https://youtu.be/EIXYEIJdKog].

#Relocation #LifeAfter40 #CareerChange #MidlifeTransition #Coaching #PersonalGrowth #MoveForward #CareerAdvice #LifeDesign

"Travel is the art of becoming rich in experience. GlobeToGo is your canvas."
#lifedesign #GlobeToGo #richinmoments

Success isn’t about more—it’s about matching your wants to your needs. What’s one thing you’ve let go of that brought peace? #Minimalism #Simplicity #Fulfilment #Selfawareness #SuccessMindset #IntentionalLiving #LifeDesign #MentalWealth #MindfulSuccess #Success #Leadership #PersonalGrowth #Clarity #Joy #SanjayKMohindroo #MeaningfulLife
https://medium.com/@mohindroo.sanjay66/you-have-succeeded-in-life-when-all-you-really-want-is-only-what-you-really-need-d5749af896ce

Hack, Hacky, Hacker

A few days ago I wrote about the beauty of great documentation; this is the evil twin post.

The spectrum of meaning across the words hack, hacky, and hacker form a horseshoe when thinking about postures toward life. On either ends are the most difficult options. Being either a hack or a hacker requires dedication and both approaches narrow your world. Being hacky, taking imperfect shortcuts, in the world is immensely satisfying. It is play disguised as problem solving. 

A successful hack takes tremendous effort and dedication just to pretend to be great at something. Humans are great at spotting and discarding hacks. It takes a true master to fool a large enough population and build financial columns under the smoke. Being a hack is constant desperation, there is no play. It is no way to live. 

On the other end of the same horseshoe as the hack, is hacking. Here, you are actually achieving something difficult enough to require mastery. “Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.” says Richard Stallman. Now, I’m all for the playful, the difficult, and the useful, but not the “or not”. At minimum hacking should be in service of a prank. Doing things just because is like felling a tree in a forest when no one is around. At least a jump scare is a sine qua non (the dictionary is working :P). 

Most systems, especially computers are designed by people for people like you and me who are neither very bright nor very invested in the thing. We want to not have the problem. You can always walk away but that is neither fun, nor useful, and certainly not hard. My favored way is to take the Nakatomi Tunnel through problems. Be hacky. Try enough approaches, push buttons that may do the thing you want until the alignment is just so and you slip through. Effectiveness here = solving many real-world problems quickly while preserving playful momentum.

I want to draw a distinction here from the oversubscribed idea of jugaad. Jugaad was once framed as creative improvisation. It is not. I do not care for jugaad. To make something substandard and expect people to accept it is no way to be in the world. Build good stuff, be hacky route through the small issues.

A hacky mindset is a foxy mindset and not just in the Hendrix way. The Hedgehog and the Fox is a great essay by Isaiah Berlin where he talks about the two kinds of people in the world. Hedgehogs, are great at one big thing. Foxes are mediocre at many things. Foxes thrive on lateral moves and opportunistic shortcuts, you know, hackiness. The hacky, foxy approach to life is more my style. 

Breadth, speed, and joy beat fakery and fixation every time

#Business #Creativity #foxVsHedgehog #hackerCulture #Hacking #hackyMindset #IsaiahBerlin #Leadership #lifeDesign #NakatomiTunnel #philosophy #playfulProductivity #problemSolving #RichardStallman #shortcuts #techPhilosophy

Because if you don’t change your habits,

You’ll end up living the same month over and over again, and call it a life.

𝗣.𝗦: 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀

Keep Going Keep Growing 🚀

#Habits #SelfGrowth #MrEmogical #MindsetShift #LifeDesign #BetterEveryDay https://mastodon.social/@MrEmogical/114872243179302410

The Plato Plateau

This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: 

The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.

1. Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.  
2. Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
3. Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
4. Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
5. When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
6. Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral. 
7. GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
8. When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
9. Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
10. Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual. 
11. Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
12. Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
    1. Survival – laws and tactics oriented
    2. Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette 
    3. Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
    4. Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness 
    5. Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
13. Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises. 
14. Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
15. Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.

#action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking

🔹 Build systems to handle life’s chaos.
🔹 Automate the mundane for peace.
🔹 Ambition doesn’t mean sacrificing contentment.

#automation #productivity #lifedesign #peaceofmind #contentment #aicommunity

You don’t need to do more. You need to stop doing what keeps you stuck.
Subtract distractions. Subtract hesitation. Subtract the rules that don’t serve you. Growth follows.

#LessIsMore #CutTheNoise #FocusedMindset #SuccessHabits #MentalClarity #SelfControl #LifeDesign #InnerPower #GrowthHacks #ElevateYourLife

If you don’t build the power to choose, you’ll spend your life settling for what’s left.

Build your leverage.

Get options.

Or you’ll always be at someone’s mercy.

#Freedom #LifeDesign #TakeControl

7/ The cost of not having options is higher than the cost of building them.

Choose wisely.

#LifeDesign #Freedom #Success