Before we can know how to attack our goals, we first have to understand the two kinds of goals that hoard our daily focus and efforts. They are: benchmarks and deadlines. They both are peppered with to-do lists, meltdowns and all nighters, but the former is personally defined whereas the latter is externally defined. Some Benchmark Goals ...
Uh oh. By the title alone we better buckle up and make sure our seat backs and tray table are in the upright and locked position. Sometimes I read things that are so good I want to punch myself in the face. This articletriggered one of those times. Why the metaphoric self-mutilation when I like things ...
Wrong. You won’t know where you’ll be in 5 years, so stop worrying so much about it. Often people ask me where do I want to be in 3 or 5 years and I consistently tell them, “I hope I am still living intentionally.” It’s stressful to think of this illusionary point that we - or our ...
I’ve been putting a lot of thought into Little Bets, lately. That terminology is based on Peter Sims’ book by the same title. The book was a wallop and changed the way I looked at my goals entirely. Many more people preach about how useful baby steps, incremental change, minimum viable product, and failing fast are... So ...
Way back in the day, humans had to take an unknown rustle of the leaves as either a tiger or the wind. Was it worth it to forage for some more food on the outskirts of the tribe or should we go back to safety? Naturally, those who always assumed it was the tiger lived ...
The Problem About once every other day someone sends me Derek Sivers’ short TED Talk: Keep Your Goals To Yourself, telling me something to the effect of, “See, I don’t have to make my goals public! What do you think about that?” And now in Daniel Coyle’s The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your ...
I am quite often asked how is it possible for me to have a full time job and do the things I do on the side and still get 7-8 hours of sleep every night. While I am currently creating my informational product to help people maximize their free time and efforts, and while I just ...
We’re going to go on a little journey using the examples of writing a book and getting lost in the wilderness to explain why we so often can’t do the things we want to do. You can of course substitute a different pursuit to match your own situation, but the logic should remain the same. ...
Accomplishing a goal is hard. It means you have to find something worthy of committing to. It means you have to do the research and the work to push against the mental (and possibly physical) walls that confine you. It means that you have to sacrifice. It means that you have to travel down a road without necessarily knowing ...
Haters gonna hate because: They place value with always being better than someone else. So when you plant a seed in the flower bed of interest, they think that is your way of telling them that you are better than them It’s much easier to say that something is stupid than to be burdened with ...
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