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Celebrate Your Successes
It’s a simple concept, but few of us do enough of it: We celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, milestones and triumphs of various kinds. We celebrate…
Larger Projects Require a Larger Plan
Duh! In developing this idea into this finished piece, I grappled with the apparent obviousness of the point I’m trying to make. But that doesn’t…
Cultivate Performance Under Pressure
For decades, I’ve believed – and told others – that almost anyone can produce a top-notch performance, deliverable, or result on a sunny day when…
Make the Most of Your To-Do List
I’m still on board with the whole To-Do list thing. But it seems to be falling out of favor with some people. “It’s too rigid…
What’s Diverting You From Success?
Few of us are performing at 100%. There are many reasons for this, but among them is one simple fact: we allow emotional and psychological…
To Risk or Not to Risk
There’s a ton of advice floating around about taking risks. Most of the time, the advice primarily says that it’s good to be willing to…
The Value of Constraints
I, for one, don’t like constraints. Within civilized limits, I’m not good with rules that don’t make sense, and I particularly don’t like being told…
Stay On the Same Page
Misunderstandings. They’re at the bottom of far too many arguments, break-ups, rejections, refusals, and failures to make positive progress. It happens so often: you have…
Operate in the Sweet Spot of Productivity and Success
Have you ever worked on a project that went beautifully? You knew exactly what to do, you were operating at the peak of your skills…
Reasons Change – So Can You
There’s a financial system called Zero-Based Budgeting, once extremely fashionable and still used in some companies, that requires every recurring expenditure to be fully reconsidered…
More Strategies for Persuasion
As I’ve previously admitted, I have been harping on the importance of working well with other people, but I’ve said only a little about effective…
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?…