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Photo by Skitterphoto on Pexels.com How do you know if you had a solid day or week of output? We can easily get deluded into thinking we were highly productive, but we may have simply stringed together fleeting days of busy activity. Sometimes, simply maintaining that appearance of effort
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We humans tend to live by emotion more than logic. It's why politicians, business leaders and religious authorities can sway the masses too often. You may have heard that famous saying, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." It's an opportunity for heroics
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If you spend most of your time trying to convince people of what they need, you may be in for a highly expensive and wasteful lesson from the marketplace. I get it. When you have an idea that you love, you think others should love it as well. But, we
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I have shared about the need to unlearn and reinvent continually because of market forces all around you and the pace of change. Once you see something that was once hard become convenient, commoditized and automated, you have to unlearn and relearn. I think that the Harvard Business Review has
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On the front lines, that frenetic swarm of activity posting on social media has gotten worn and tired. Most people doing worthwhile work are inattentive to the streams and heads down delivering their value. They don't have time to keep up with all the platform noise. Cal Newport,
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ” ~ Alvin Toffler I often think about that phrase, "What got you here won't get you there." It's a powerful reminder that
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I read Derek Sivers' mantra years ago, "Either 'Hell Yeah!' or 'no." It's a fantastic way to live and do business. Most things don't work out. And a lot of time, money and relational equity can be wasted when taking
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A few projects matter. So do a few relationships and a few tools. It's so easy to simply accumulate stuff and throw horsepower into everything. While thinking that should cover over any deficiencies, what is often hidden is the cost in the form of waste, unclarity and management
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Let My People Go Surfing Knowledge is always accessible and allows you to need less indeed. Compare how pros approach their work versus amateurs. Pros, people that know what they are doing, have the following characteristics: * Relaxed * Focused * Simplified * Efficient Amateurs throw a lot at problems. They have to. New,
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There's a world of opportunity out there for what you are pursuing. But one piece of clarity that gets overlooked too often is qualification. Most people you meet cannot say, "Yes," to what you are offering. However, a few people can. I'm not sure
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The saying in French, mise en place, roughly translates to everything in its place. French cooks use this approach to keep order and readiness in their work. I have done this for decades, and I even train my kids on this important practice, not only for survival and getting things
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My kids and I love that Jack Black movie, School of Rock. The other day, we were laughing at a line that Black's character, Dewey Finn, made a group of his colleagues roll with in a lunchroom scene, "Those that can't do, teach, and those