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Strive for High Quality
There are several reasons to keep your focus on delivering high-quality results. These include: High-quality work earns you a more respectable reputation, larger rewards, and…
Instead of Advice
Too much advice is misleading. It’s too often based on incomplete information, incorrect assumptions, or irrelevant experience. Even if it’s helpful, on another level it…
Ways to Know Yourself Better
As I’ve written before, self-awareness is an important building block of both productivity and success. The better you know yourself, the more accurately you can…
The Power of Recommitment
Some work is never done. Whether it’s cleaning your house, improving your personality, or anything in between, some types of work just go on and…
Hard Skills Pay Off
Increasing your level of productivity and success obviously depends to a great degree on your drive, as well as your native level of aptitude, talent,…
Even More Characteristics of Good Leaders
I’ve written several times before, including here and here, about leadership: what it involves and how to improve as a leader. I’ve acknowledged that people…
Ways to Become Your Best Self
In this blog I write mostly about productivity and success. But unlike some others, I define success along the lines of: The good feeling that…
Some Core Values – Part Two
In the past, I’ve written about the importance of living in alignment with your values. However, I’ve touched only briefly on the values I consider…
Some Core Values – Part One
In the past, I’ve written about the importance of living in alignment with your values. However, I’ve touched only briefly on the values I consider…
Process Over Product
One big mistake that people sometimes make is to confuse the quality and satisfaction of their results with the processes, procedures, and efforts they’re using…
Sources of Stimulation
It’s an undeniable fact that growing older often means losing some of your capabilities. We generally recognize, however, that with hard work you can slow…
Scheduling Your Day – Part 2
I wrote previously about Scheduling Your Day in a general sense, discussing the importance of recognizing your peaks and valleys, as well as your need…