We're living in an interesting age. There's an app for that. For anything. No matter how simple. We've turned apps and technology into a fetish and we try to use it to solve every problem, even when it's the wrong tool. Sometimes (I daresay often), the technological...
As we saw in part 1, and part 2, we often we get stalled because we have "microfears." These steer us away from the Important Things we want. It's our thinking that does it. We imagine what might go wrong, feel a bit of fear, and then suddenly notice we have a...
When things get stalled, as we saw in the article that answered the question What is a Microfear?, fear is often why. Not big fears; small ones. We're afraid of failing at something we want to learn. We're afraid of starting an ambitious project that might...
There's a lot that doesn't get done, despite our best laid plans. There's that novel we've dreamed about writing. The weekly billing, which always seems to be late. The networking and prospecting we need to keep our business running. Early in my career, I learned...
This blog post was sponsored by Adobe Document Cloud. Meetings can be the bane of our existence! A great many of them are poorly run and useless… but even the useful ones have problems. Note taking! I take copious notes in meetings. After all, in good...
This blog post was sponsored by Adobe Document Cloud. I know in my gut that business travel is what drives the paper industry’s profitability. Every step you take ends up producing a receipt, business card, or some important note scribbled on a napkin, in...
Today I'm in the Washington Post, on How not to Lose Things. Enjoy!
Check out the new article in BBC Capital about Why We Should All Give Up on Goals Already. The title is a bit sensationalistic, but the article seriously asks when do goals hinder, rather than help, achievement.
Eric Barker shares his non-intuitive, scientifically-backed insights on what does and doesn't lead to success.
In my article on focusing your life around what you’re good at, what’s needed, what you love, and what’s scaleable, the “what’s scaleable” is a piece that’s new to me, and may be new to you. It’s worth talking about, though. The Myth of Hard Work says that if you work...