“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” — Henry Ford
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
How to Turn a Struggling Project into a Successful One
“Every project is designed to provide value to a specific audience. If you’re not clear who that audience is, or haven’t clearly expressed that to them, your project won’t get traction…no matter how great it may be.”
The Six Best Questions to Ask During a Performance Review
“You don’t just want to know where you fall on a scale of one to five — you want to know exactly how your employer is defining one, five, and all the scores in between.”
101 Blog Post Ideas That Will Drive Traffic
“The real hallmark of successful content isn’t just ranking well in organic search results, or getting thousands of readers. It’s whether or not your readers actually take action and create measurable change after consuming your content.”
The Power of Saying Less
“When people are heard first, they tend to listen to what you say when it’s your turn. Silence breeds curiosity and curiosity leads to a conversation where someone will listen to you.”
Alan Weiss on How to Grow a Successful Business
“Unsolicited feedback is always for the sender, it’s not for the recipient. So unless you ask somebody you respect specifically for feedback, don’t listen to it.”
How to Make Lightning Decisions as a Group
“Freedom to discuss might seem conducive to creativity, when it’s in fact the enemy. Structure and discipline create the freedom needed to be creative.”
How to Avoid Despair About the State of the World
“My job is to show my children that there is a whole universe that exists beyond the grim issues of the day. This is not to divert them from certain truths, but rather to remind them that the parallel world of art and the imagination can literally save their lives, as it certainly saved mine.”
How to Build Something People Want
“The size of the market you target will be a significant multiplier of your business’ success. You can’t make a living off every niche. Some are just too small. Your niche should be narrowly defined, but sizeable in numbers.”
Lessons Learned from 30 Days of Meditation
“I do believe that the difference between zero and 10 minutes of meditating every day is a far greater difference than 10 minutes to 60.”