If you are lucky enough to have some control over how you spend your time, my advice is to think carefully about how you do so. The simplest answer, which is common for some employees, is “I’ll just do what…
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Whenever people ask me for career advice, I always suggest the same exercise. It starts with 3 circles. The first circle is what you're good at and lists all of your key strengths, particularly those that differentiate you. Some people are…
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My goals with This Curious Adventure are two-fold: 1) uncover life’s hidden rulebook to help me craft my life in the way I want and 2) share what I’ve learned so others can do the same. After being recently asked,…
Read More “Life Lenses”: A perspective on how to view the world
The idea behind This Curious Adventure is to 1) understand life’s hidden rulebook and 2) figure out how to use those rules to live a successful life (acknowledging that “success” is a self-defined term that is potentially different for everyone…
Take any moment in life - good, bad or indifferent - and there is only one question to answer: “Now what?” If you want the world to be different than it is, you need to take action. If you are…
I recently heard someone say they had “good momentum” after getting a lot of things done. That got me thinking about flywheels. If you don’t know what a flywheel is, they are mechanical devices that store energy through momentum. Once…
There was a classic scientific experiment where researchers gave a monkey a banana. Not surprisingly, the monkey was happy. In the next phase, they gave a second monkey two bananas and he too was happy. However, this time there was…
“My advice is to never listen to any advice, not even this one.” - Anonymous One of the easiest ways to see that everyone lives in their own reality is to keep your eyes open while looking for advice. Every…
"If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour" - Dianna Booher Communication, particularly at work, is often a bit muddled and confused. When I am trying to create my own messaging, I…
"Here's a simple but powerful rule - always give people more than they expect to get." - Nelson Boswell The Networking Mindset For our purposes, a “network” is a set of mutually beneficial relationships that you have built over time.…
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein Presentations in the broadest sense are similar to art - there are an infinite number of ways to approach it and everyone has different opinions…
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." - Aeschylus As Harry Lorayne points out in his many books on memory, the first thing to understand is that most of the time you don’t “forget” something, rather you did not remember…
"Nothing is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it." - Daniel Khaneman When making a decision, everything revolves around your focus. As an independent minded person, you probably believe that when deciding, you focus…
"It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.”– Khalil Gibran For thousands of years humans have communicated through stories. You are a storyteller whether you think of yourself that way…
"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. "- Dwight Eisenhower Most goal require more than one step, sometimes quite a few. If you are not the planning type, the advice I have for achieving a goal is to pick something…
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us”- J.R.R. Tolkein Rich or poor, young or old, there is one thing that all people have in common every day – time (1,440 minutes to…
"People do not decide their future. They decide their habits and their habits decide their future" - F.M. Alexander Habits are those neural circuits that you have grooved so strongly that they will execute without you even thinking about them,…
"What you don't remember, you might as well not have learned" - Harry Lorayne From the day you were born, you have been learning. Some of it was done via school or other formalized education, but most of it was…
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing" - Teddy Roosevelt Sometimes it’s hard to figure…
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“The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want” - Arthur D. Hlavaty As the world becomes smaller and more interconnected, our choices of what to do with our time are rapidly expanding. It's understandable that…
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