# David Tian

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#99: Marriage Isn't the Risk. The Wrong Partner Is.

You've watched a friend go through it. The house, the filing, the number the lawyer gave him. He built that business staying up late for years, and now he's watching half of it get divided by a stranger in a courtroom. You went home and did the math on your own situation that same night. Two years…

#100: How Success Costs You the Good Life

Most achievers believe that once they become successful professionally, then personal success will follow: the loving partner, the loyal friends, the children who still want to connect with them at fifty. But it works the other way. Professional success can often cost most people their personal li…

#101: The Brutal Cost of Keeping Your Options Open

You've spent years getting better at managing your time. But what if time management has been helping you avoid the harder problem? Productivity works beautifully when the goal is getting more done. But some of the most important things in life can't be accelerated. If you're single today, you ca…

#102: What Success Can't Tell You About Life

Success can reward a bad trade for years before the costs become obvious. The decisions usually look reasonable at the time. One more demanding year. One more important opportunity. One more stretch of travel. Marriage can wait. The children will understand. Friends will still be there. And profe…

#103: What If Success Brings You the Wrong Life?

A life can look respectable, successful, even enviable, and still be badly chosen. The frightening part is that this usually doesn't happen because of one reckless decision. It happens through years of reasonable choices. Another demanding stage at the company. Another opportunity worth taking. …

#104: Would Your Life Matter If No One Remembered You?

What if your life disappeared so completely that no one remembered you? No family stories. No company. No reputation. No influence. No trace that you were ever here. Would that make your life meaningless? There's an award-winning episode of Star Trek that gets at this question better than most p…

#105: How to Live So Death Doesn't Feel Too Soon

There's a difference between wanting more time to live your life and needing more time to live your life. You can want another twenty years because you love being alive. Or you can need them because you still haven't built the relationship, started the family, or spent enough time with the friends…

#106: What Would You Pay to Get Five Years Back?

Failure is easy to notice. You build the wrong company, make a bad investment, or choose the wrong direction, and eventually the result tells you something went wrong. Success can actually be harder. Let's say the company grows, the numbers improve, the sacrifices keep paying off. Meanwhile, yo…

#108: When Part of You Wants to Change & Part of You Doesn't (Guided Meditation)

You tell yourself you want to change. You can articulate lots of good reasons for changing. But when it comes time to commit or decide or take action, some part of you gets in the way... and you're back to being stuck just arguing with yourself. Maybe you want to leave your job, but every time you…

#109: Why a Good Decision Can Still Feel Wrong

You've thought the decision through and had good reasons for making it. But now you're living with the results, and you keep wondering whether you chose wrong. Maybe you ended a relationship and miss the person. Or you declined an opportunity and can't stop thinking about what you gave up. But if…