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Four Characteristics to Improve
Human beings are complex, and any effort to improve ourselves has the potential to involve a good deal of that complexity. That’s one reason it’s…
Career Reset
Every once in a while, you reach a point in your work and your life when it’s time to drill down to the bedrock of…
Take a Step Higher
We’ve often heard of rising to “the 30,000 foot view” of what’s going on in a particular situation. It’s considered an excellent way to get…
The Power of Ambition
I’m wary of expectations. In my experience, expectations have a way of setting firm boundaries around situations you are about to experience, and it’s far…
The Value of Effort
For many years, I’ve been feeling that the value and importance of well-directed personal efforts are significantly underappreciated. This light bulb first came on when…
Really Smart Ideas
When I come across an idea that strikes me as smart, I try to remember it and – at least to some extent – incorporate…
How to Do Your Best Work
Part of my journey involves steadily improving my level of productivity and success, and helping you improve yours. Along the way to such a goal,…
Game Plan for Success
There are a lot of ideas circulating about how to increase your personal productivity and success. I have quite a few, including these few: Curate…
Celebrate Your Most Difficult Choices
If you’re anything like me, you’ve complained, lamented, even cursed the situations in which you’ve faced difficult choices. They seem like torture: you can’t figure…
Strategies for Persuasion
I feel like I have been harping for a good long time on the importance of working well with other people. But looking back, I…
Learn from Your Mistakes
For most of us, learning from our mistakes is very difficult. The biggest reason is usually that we don’t enjoy making them. In fact, they’re…
Ways to Think Different
We’re often admonished to “think outside the box.” Sometimes, that’s a useful approach. But when was the last time someone gave you any advice on…