Category: Reflections
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Discipline Trumps Motivation
Motivation is fleeting; discipline is consistent. Lasting success comes from showing up daily, building habits, and trusting disciplined routines.
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Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
Simplicity removes noise and reveals brilliance. True sophistication is clarity—eliminate the excess to let your best work and ideas shine.
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The Revolution You Didn’t See Coming
Challenge your assumptions. True innovation comes from rethinking the rules, not improving them. Are you ready for your revolution?
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The Compound Clarity of Daily Reflection
Micro-decisions compound into clarity when you pause to notice them. Real-time pattern recognition transforms choices into insights about who you’re becoming.
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The Power of Daily Micro-Decisions
Success isn’t built on massive choices—it’s constructed from thousands of micro-decisions. Learn to optimize what you don’t acknowledge.
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Undesirable to Undeniable
Stop chasing validation. Learn why the edge cases everyone dismisses today become tomorrow’s benchmarks—and how to build what’s undeniable, not just desirable.
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There’s No Demand for Average
Nobody bookmarks ‘pretty good.’ Discover why the real risk isn’t being disliked—it’s building something so safe it disappears.
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From Genesis to Solespire: My Father, My Co-Founder
What happens when you give a 3-year-old a Sega Genesis? If you’re patient enough, you get a co-founder. My journey from pixels to partnership with my Dad.
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The Cost of Not Starting
The real risk isn’t failure—it’s never starting. Learn why momentum, clarity, and growth only come after version 0.1 is in the world for everyone to try.
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Life is Lived in the Arena
Real learning happens through action, not theory. Discover why shipping imperfect work beats endless studying—and how Steve Jobs lived that lesson in the arena.
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XVII
XVII anagrams to death, and so Italians fear 17, but I started Solespire and met my future wife online in 2017, with our first meeting in Mexico on 17 December.
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Thirteen
This is Blog Post #13. While the world loses $800M yearly fearing 13, I take it and count it with compound growth, because math beats superstition every time.
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What I Learned Saying ‘No’ to WWE
Sometimes the biggest opportunities are not the ones you take—they’re the ones that teach you what you’re really building toward.
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The Job That Paid in T-Shirts and DVDs
From TNA Wrestling forum fan at 14 to building their website for t-shirts and DVDs. How unpaid experience led to a WWE offer and ultimately launching Solespire.
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The Drywall Wireframe
Every entrepreneur has an origin story. Mine begins wireframing on a dusty slab of drywall in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, with my father, Kris Cyganiak.
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