A Five-Minute Trick to Transform Your Marketing
“Here’s the hard truth for marketers: clarity trumps creativity. Every time.”
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How to Get Comfortable in a Chair
“Most people think the knees and hips should be at the same level, so that the angle between your torso and legs is 90 degrees. But you’ll be more comfortable —...
How to Write Short Emails
“A long email is a dead giveaway that the sender had a lot of extra time and emotional investment in the subject matter of the email, the person they’re sending...
The Four Most Common Morning Routines of 300 Successful People
“Many people don’t have time or mental space (yet) for a yoga class or a full-on meditation practice — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t simple ways to build s...
How to Simplify Your Online Life
“Digital minimalism is a philosophy that helps you question what digital communication tools (and behaviors surrounding these tools) add the most value to your ...
An Easy Way to Lower Your Spending
“The rule is simple: After I buy something, I log the transaction on my phone, recording the price and what I bought. The idea is to increase the pain of paying...
Focus on Mastery Instead of Metrics
“Gaming the system is not a sustainable long-term strategy to build an audience for your work. If you commit to mastery, eventually the metrics will improve. Bu...
How to Be Better at Parties
“There’s the sense that we should arrive fashionably late and with a posse of friends, but in fact, the very best time to get there is right when the party star...
How to Respond to People Who Ask to Pick Your Brain
The problem with coffee date brain picking is that the advice you give (along with the time spent giving it) is lost into the ether. Helping one person at a tim...
Ordinary People Focus on the Outcome, Extraordinary People Focus on the Process
“Pressure is the result of limitations we put on ourselves to produce outcomes we don’t control. When we focus on the outcome, we begin to expect things out of ...