Humor is a great psychological tool to get and keeping people on your side. Use it wisely, and use it often—especially when you screw up. Continue…
Category Archives: Career Development
How to Manage Your Overwhelming Social Calendar
It’s easy for an introvert to become overwhelmed by a busy social life. Here are 6 ideas to thrive socially without burning out. Continue…
How Do You Balance Productivity and Creativity?
Focusing too much on productivity can stifle your creativity, which is what makes your work worth doing in the first place. Continue…
Use First Principles Thinking to Solve Impossible Problems
If you want to solve hard problems in unique ways, “first principles thinking” is the strategy that works for the world’s most creative people. Continue…
You Only Have to Succeed Once
The people at the top of their games are the ones who kept the right mindset through all the failures along the way. Continue…
What It Takes to Master a Skill
You can learn skills by imitating those who’ve already mastered them. But mastering them yourself takes creativity and hard work. Continue…
What If You Don’t Have One True Calling?
For many of us, the idea of having “one true calling” is a myth. And that’s a good thing for three important reasons. Continue…
This Coach Spent Practice Time Teaching Players To Tie Their Shoes Right. Guess What Happened Next
During The Great Depression, a boy named John was growing up on farm in Indiana. Times were tough, but everyone in the family did what they could to help, and Dad raised the boys with a philosophy based on this quote: Never try to be better than somebody else. Just try to be the best… Continue…
Use Your Busywork to Improve Your Important Work
Life is filled with busywork you can’t eliminate. When that’s the case, do it mindfully and with a purposeful system to improve the rest of your work. Continue…
The Magic of Testing Your Assumptions
Every day, you make many assumptions that quietly shape the direction of your life and work. You should test the validity of those assumptions. Here’s how. Continue…