In any meeting you can play one of these roles:
Pirate
The Pirate in the room questions the status quo and provides ideas on doing things differently. The Pirate has a loud and bold voice that unflinchingly challenges authority, and every time he opens his mouth you can count on at least one-third of the room rolling [...]
Formula for Success:
Try and fail.
Try and fail.
Try and fail.
Try and fail.
Try and fail.
Try and succeed. (repeat as needed.)
Improved Formula for Success:
Try, fail, LEARN.
Try something different, fail again, learn some more.
Try something even more different… SUCCEED. (repeat for the rest of your life.)
Time for the annual New Year’s Whensday reboot!
Think of this yearly recurring post as a “New Year’s Holiday Special” for inspiring you (and me!) to get more things done in 2012.
January is an ideal time to adopt an “Everyday is Whensday” philosophy. By now you’ve probably noted the unique spelling (or at the very least [...]
One might “gain weight” but there is rarely anything gained by waiting.
On the contrary, the chances are greater that you’ll miss out on opportunities by delaying — you’ll experience “wait loss.” Some delays are inevitable, but most are self-imposed delays based on fear, distractions, and insecurities.
Fear
Some fear failure, some fear success, some fear making the [...]
A recent conversation with a friend of mine lead to him describing the creative process he was going through as “molding a new idea out of clay.” That statement sparked an image in my mind, but (as with most ideas) I kept building on it in my own brain and came to the realization that [...]
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