by Tim Parkins | Jul 6, 2025
You’re Hitting All Your Goals – and Still Losing You’re so busy chasing success, you don’t realize it’s dragging you further from the life you actually want. If you’re a high-achiever, chances are you’re setting goals, and busting your ass to hit them. Get the promotion. Run the marathon. Save for the house. Launch the business. You know the drill. Setting goals and driving towards them is important. But here’s the problem: Very few people have a mission. Fewer still have a clear vision of…
by Tim Parkins | Jun 29, 2025
You’re Probably Ignoring the Most Important Investment of Your Life No, it’s not your index fund. It’s not crypto. It’s not your RRSP or IRA. It’s your ability to do meaningful, high-value work. Most people with a modicum of success spend countless hours researching financial investments, analyzing strategies, chasing returns, and optimizing for growth. But they’re missing the big one, the most important investment of all: investing in themselves to ensure they’re doing the right work. That’s…
by Tim Parkins | Jun 22, 2025
How Your Growth Might Be Holding You Back I forgot to hit play, and accidentally had a breakthrough. Have you noticed it’s harder to think clearly these days? You’re always learning. Always listening. Always absorbing. Another podcast on your commute. Another newsletter in your inbox. Another book queued up. You tell yourself you’re being productive. That this is what growth looks like. But lately? It feels like none of it’s sinking in. You feel mentally full, yet somehow… unsatisfied. Like…
by Tim Parkins | Jun 15, 2025
Your Brain Fails You When You Need It Most. Here’s The Fix. The Backstory I’ve mentioned this before, but years ago, I learned the hard way that my “just grind it out” approach to dealing with stress had detonated every circuit in my mind and left me hospitalized. Recovery forced me to design and implement guardrails I’d never needed before. Out of that hot mess came my first Trigger Action Plans (TAPs for short). They were simple checklists that let me pivot from “spiralling” to “steady”…
by Tim Parkins | Jun 8, 2025
Trying Reindeer, Scoring Goals, and Rediscovering Myself A couple of weeks ago, I was wandering hand in hand with my wife along a cobblestone harbour in Copenhagen. No phone in hand. No tasks pinging. No running checklist in the back of my mind. enjoying time with my beautiful wife Janique Just walking. Exploring. Laughing. Watching people ride bikes in suits and heels like it was the most normal thing in the world. It felt… light. Not because the schedule was slow (it wasn’t). We were on a…
