One shortcut to change your internal state is to change your external state. To overcome a big hurdle, change a persistent negative behavior, or make some other kind of big leap in your personal development, maybe you need to change more than yourself… maybe you need to change your surroundings?

There always have been and always will be a small subset of the population who lead remarkable lives. For them, there is no luck but that which they make for themselves. Learn to cast your net wide and take a proactive role in opening your life up to opportunity.

So as I write this I’m sitting on the beach in Railay Bay, Krabi. My parents came to visit me in Bangkok and I’ve been on a ten-day excursion to the islands in Phuket and Krabi. We are staying on a quiet, isolated beach at West Railay Beach near Ao Nang. It’s about 11PM here, and all that can be [...]