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Far too many people of every description feel far less confident in their skills, knowledge, experience, and abilities than actually, objectively warranted. This is a problem. Why? A shortfall in your level of confidence tends to create a serious drag on your level of productivity and success because it: While insufficient confidence is often a […]

If you’re like most people, your work and your life are made up of many different tasks, projects, and goals. Some of them are big, some are medium-size, but the vast majority are relatively little. This presents a practical problem, because – while we generally feel highly motivated to accomplish our biggest tasks, projects, and

Decision-making can get complicated and messy, particularly when you face lots of options, lots of parameters, and lots of interplay between them all. So it’s helpful to have in mind a sequence of steps to help you wade through this complexity and keep your thoughts on track as you strive toward a satisfactory solution. Here’s

I often think of it as my one and only “superpower:” my ability to say “no” to what I don’t want. I can’t always get paid to do the work I want to do. I’ve crushed on many people who haven’t returned my romantic wishes. I’ve fallen short of large numbers of creative, personal, and

Everything you do is built on a triple foundation of: 1) human development, 2) culture, and 3) your personal environment. Human development includes and reflects all the years that mankind has been learning, evolving, and developing all our current knowledge and capabilities. Culture reflects all the values and experiences to which we’ve been exposed, including

There’s a spectrum of mindsets about how best to drive projects toward fruition. On one end of the spectrum, people hold prudent attitudes like these: On the other end of the spectrum, people hold audacious attitudes like these: I don’t know where you operate along this spectrum, but based on the statistics of how most

Back when it was a rarity, I was lucky enough to spend a major portion of my paid time doing what we now call “working remotely.” Today, this kind of arrangement is far more commonplace. But while some people describe this situation as “working at home,” others disparage it as much more akin to “living