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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…
Working Well with Others – Part 2
In writing these posts, I’ve frequently mentioned (as I did here) the importance of working well with others. But I haven’t said much about maintaining…
Coping Well with Crises
If you’re never going to have another crisis or severe problem in your work or your life, you can skip this one. The rest of…
Building Your Resilience – Part 4
As I wrote a while ago, here, here, and here, resilience is the capacity to recover quickly and well from difficulties and demanding experiences. Resilience…
These Might Be Holding You Back
It’s not guaranteed, but if your current level of productivity and success seem less that what you hope for, you could be suffering from character…
Another Approach to Setting Goals
I write often about accomplishing your tasks, projects, and goals, and I’ve discussed some specifics about setting goals several times, including here. This time around,…
Before You Commit to Big Decisions
There are many different decision-making methods and algorithms. I’m not going to write about any of those in this piece. Instead, I’m going to talk…
Even More Ways to Build Trust
In two previous posts, here and here, I’ve written about trust and the importance of building it with people who are – or may become…