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 […]
Isn’t it frustrating when you present the details of a project or an agreement (in person or in writing) in a well thought out and (dare I say) elegant manner, only to have the client or vendor or co-worker respond with questions and assumptions that fly completely in the face of everything you just explained?? […]
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 […]
Everyone has to deal with a few pricks now and then, but it’s how you handle those thorny situations when they arise that matters. Things people say or do can get under your skin. It can be abrasive. It can be irritating. But it can be overcome. Just like a skin rash or allergic reaction, […]
That super-awesome super-original idea you came up with gives you a head start and puts you out ahead of the others. An original idea puts you in the lead — but not for long. In the race to get a concept to market, being the one who came up with the concept positions you as […]
A while ago I asked if you would achieve your goals, and at the risk of giving away the article’s punchline — I told you that I had no way of knowing the answer to that question. It is entirely in your court to decide whether or not your goals are realistic and achievable (and […]
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 […]