I listen to podcasts and watch videos and take courses and read books/blogs/articles to increase my vocabulary and evolve faster. By “vocabulary” I don’t mean to learn bigger and better words (though that’s also a benefit), I mean vocabulary in a creative sense. I consume media in order to help me find words to explain […]
Your mane priority …er… MAIN priority might be to move ahead in your personal life and/or your career, but you’ll never make any forward progress if you’re lying around all the time. Disagree? You’re just lion (…er… lying…) to yourself Newton’s First Law of Motion states that a body at rest tends to stay at […]
There are things you know that you know, and things you know that you don’t know… but there are also a metric ton of things you don’t know that you don’t know. As I’ve mentioned before, we are all ignorant about something (and that’s not an insult, it’s just a fact that we can’t know […]
Take a look at the featured image accompanying this article. Nearest you in the foreground is a platform. This represents where you are now; your latest completed accomplishment. Off in the distance you can see a mountain peak. That is your next goal; the prize on which your eyes are set. In between where you […]
I suppose now you’d simply call it a “playlist” and easily create a collection of songs on Spotify, but back in my youth we’d work hard to create the perfect sequence of greatest hits (usually recorded from live radio) and record them on a cassette which we call a mix tape. Mix Tapes might have […]
On July 4th we celebrate Independence Day — when the colonies broke away from the oppressive rule of Great Britain and became a new nation. The Founding Fathers worked together to create something new. It required not just original thought, but also the ability to think independently. To be afraid of all of the things […]
There are plenty of times when time is of the essence in the sales process; project deadlines, product launches, in-hand delivery dates that have to be met — and a dozen other reasons why you don’t want to waste any time. On the other hand, there are plenty of times when you might be rushing […]