"I don't have time to be unhappy."
Our time is too valuable to waste it being unhappy. Get your mind focused on what's possible rather than going down the negative news rabbit hole. Here's a path.
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Success, consistency
A collection of 29 issues
Tom Peters Got Lucky
When Tom Peters co-wrote the famous "In Search of Excellence" that put him on the map in the 1980s, he had no idea it would be as successful as it was. Tom admits he got really lucky with his timing of the book.
Does the Internet have something in common with New York City?
Be findable. Be remarkable. How can you build an enduring brand like Katz's Delicatessen today?
The harsh reality and what to do about it.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
- Buckminster Fuller
The news - and possibly your experience - around jobs is confusing. On the one hand, there aren't enough people to
The most important goal you should have this year.
Happy New Year everyone. Now that we've gotten sufficiently past all the top 10 lists of 2021, and made and quit our bold New Year's resolutions, let's get to work on being the best you you can be, okay?
I know I've
We're doing it wrong
Doing it wrong is the theme that's surfaced over the past couple of weeks. From education to how we take notes and write and work, we're doing it wrong. And have been for a very long time. Or maybe not totally wrong, but not as well
Easy to start. Harder than ever to succeed.
Forging your own work path is like learning to drive a stick shift. It's hurky jerky at first. Hard to get out of first gear. And then you start to feel the gears mesh. Using the clutch gets more fluid. At first, it takes all of your brain
Rethinking the 40-hour work week and difficult people
Welcome to September. This week, let's talk about the traditional 40 hour work week. We take it for granted that it's 'always' been this way. Yet long before the Industrial Age, people worked long enough to feed their families. There was more leisure time
Are you playing the long game?
We humans are short sighted. The now holds far more importance than the future. What's in front of us grabs our attention far more than some distant goal. At the same time, we often miss being present as our minds drift to goodness knows what else. Most everything
You can pretty much do it all if you want.
I am afflicted with generalis curiosis. In plain speak, I insatiable curiosity. Which begets many different interests. These interests flare up from time to time and then go back to a slow simmer. But squelched? Never. Even as I sought spend the required 10,000 hours to hone my craft.