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Get More Meaning From Your Work
It’s a fairly simple chain of causation: Success comes from Productivity. Productivity comes from Motivation. Motivation comes from Meaning. But where does Meaning come from?…
The Perfect Route Toward Perfectionism
You’re never going to be perfect. It’s very unlikely you’ll ever deliver a perfect piece of work. You won’t have a perfect life. We don’t…
Plan Backwards From the Future You Want
We live our lives forwards from the present moment. But – if we wish – we can go the other way, and plan our lives…
Don’t Fall Into the Confidence Gap
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…
Take Little Steps Toward Big Results
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,…
A Helpful Sequence of Steps for Decision-Making
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…
Avoid the Worst to Help Achieve the Best
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…
Build A Personal Environment for Productivity and Success
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…
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Take Your Best Shot Now
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:…