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You're Not Good At It
Here's the paradox of a blind spot - you can't see it. It's a blind spot. What if you can't see that you are simply not good at something? You have put in enormous effort and time, but you are still blind.
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Think Smaller
Everyone is not Elon Musk or Larry Page. In fact, it's extremely rare to have such a quality of big thinking such as solving "billion-person problems" and sending humans to Mars. You have to have extreme vision and, at minimum, have your stuff together. If you
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I Would Rather Talk to Practitioners
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ~ Yogi Berra We have never lived in such a time as we do today where there is no end to information being put out into the world. It's overwhelming and daunting for sure. One
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Hustle as Strategy
Have you seen people that are simply too rich? I actually think we are too rich as a society overall. We have the ability to solve so many problems, much larger than we are attacking, for sure. But we are comfortable, complacent and unmotivated. Simply watch people's behaviors,
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We Need a Whole Lot of Better Listeners
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” ~ Dale Carnegie It sure would be amusing if we heard people speaking their minds when they tire of someone talking too
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Don't Start if You Are Not Going to be Consistent
The labor it used to take to simply set something up is lost on this next generation. I can tell my kids don't relate to the pain I try vainly to communicate when it comes to how hard it was to set up websites, IT systems and even
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Distractions Cost You
Making lots of tiny choices depletes one's subsequent self-control. ~ Shane Snow, Smartcuts I get worn out during a workday simply from death by a thousand cuts. Those thousand cuts take the form of the myriad decisions I am confronted with relentlessly. What do I eat? What do I
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In a World of Too Much
We live in a world of too many options, not too little. Solving your business problems is less about innovating and developing something new, and it is much more about putting together the pieces that are available in our democratized tech and knowledge world. Consider all the options you have
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Look What I Did For You
It’s much easier to sell “Look what I did for you” than “Look what I avoided for you.” ~ Nassim Taleb, Antifragile I lament that our society and human nature exalts the glamorous over the shrewd. "Look what I did for you" garners perceived value so readily. Perhaps
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Be Smarter On Your Cycles
I agree with Socrates' famous lines, The unexamined life is not worth living. After all, simply continuing to repeat mistakes and not recognizing the opportunities to make something different happen is tragic, at best. You have likely seen the ebb and flow of your business cycles, relationships and even
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Forget Setting More Goals
Losers have goals. Winners have systems. ~ Tim Ferriss We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle The last thing you need is more goals. A lot of talk about going after the next thing for yourself will assuredly come out in this
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Repointing
I don't think too highly of simply working harder at something, especially if you are pointed in the wrong direction. It's easy to turn off the brain and keep charging at what we are doing. The awareness to look up and think about where you are