"You may delay, but time will not."

-Benjamin Franklin

Hi, Internet. My name is Joe. 

If you study high-achievers, you will see most of them follow systems. Systems are what you do on a regular basis with the general expectation to improve. 

A great way to improve is to study the ways of others with proven results and try to extract some tricks and strategies that make sense for you.

I research the world’s brightest minds and top performers, and track their best tricks and strategies here. This motivated me to create a systematic approach to life with the focus being to improve and better it.

The foundation is based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, which provides the shape of an ideal life lived in harmony, and how to maximize personal potential. It’s useful to turn to whenever you are trying to assess the direction of your life.

Strive Life Design is a collection of the best resources—TED Talks, book reviews, articles, tools—organized into easy to follow guides to life and how to better it. 

Practical takeaways that can help you learn about the dynamics of human behavior—usable psychology, habit formation, performance improvement and well-being—then apply it to your own life.

No B.S. No fluff. All free information.

I hope this website helps you as much as it has helped me. 

A Little About Me

  • Graduated from Umass Amherst with degrees in Economics, Management and Psychology.
  • 15+ years experience in Commercial and Residential real estate in the Boston area.
  • Fascinated with psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, physiology, consciousness, health, and life.
  • Family and friends.
  • ENFJ-A. 
  • French bulldog connoisseur.
  • Enjoy challenging the status quo. 
  • Sports—Basketball, Football, Golf.
  • All kinds of Music. Play the guitar. 
  • Pretty good at poker.
  • Slightly sarcastic.
  • Self made quantum physicist via YouTube.
  • Love quotes that distill wisdom—the right quotes can be shortcuts that work.
  • Avid student of life.
  • Love the story of the Chinese Farmer.
  • Love Life as compared to a game of Monopoly.
  • Life philosophy is a mix of an ancient philosophy called Stoicism, Eastern Philosophies, and Toltec Wisdom.
  • This, Too, Will Pass.

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