The Two Words That Always Get Your Audience’s Attention
“‘Remember when’ instructs your audience to search their memory banks. Your follow up story creates a picture in their mind.”
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How To Achieve One Focused Hour Of Work A Day
“Our perceptions of time are largely illusions. And one of the biggest of those illusions is the relationship between time and our ability to create value. We c...
A 5-Week Plan To Start A Side Hustle On Your Lunch Break
“Whatever you do, don’t just set up a side gig that amounts to a part-time job. The key is to create an asset that will work for you. It takes less time than yo...
Warren Buffett’s “Two Lists” Strategy To Master Focus
“Getting rid of wasteful items and decisions is relatively easy. It’s eliminating things you care about that is difficult. The tasks that have the greatest like...
How To Tweak Your Environment To Achieve Your Goals
“Our environment dictates what we choose to do, as opposed to what we want to do. If you have choices around you that are distracting or lead to undesirable out...
15 Phrases To Ban From Your Vocabulary
“You probably have no idea that it’s happening. But when you open your mouth, or let your fingers dance across the keyboard, you may be killing your own credibi...
How To Brainstorm Like A Kindergartner
“What we need is to take that kindergarten approach of learning through designing, creating, experimenting, exploring and extending it throughout all of school ...
How To Avoid Workplace Policies That Kill Motivation
“For years, new hires at Nordstrom famously received a copy of the company’s employee ‘handbook.’ It was a single 5-by-8 card that read, ‘Rule #1: Use best judg...
Give Yourself Permission To Discover Your Genius
“Genius is empowering ourselves. Genius is when I let myself be so purely me — where I’ve chipped off the rest, where I’ve ripped off the dust and the mounds of...
How To Grow Your Network When You Hate Networking
You know the guy who chats up strangers in the elevator and blankets a cocktail party with his business cards? That’s not me. I have zero interest in what most ...