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…
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