The 12 Stages of Burnout
“When we push our creativity and productivity to its limits, we can easily find ourselves teetering on brink of burnout. And there’s a fine line between being i...
Category: Self Improvement
How to Make It Easier to Stick to Your Budget
“The entire concept of budgeting is flawed. Your emotional brain responds to the word budget the same way it responds to the word diet. The connotation is depri...
Why You Should Manage Your Energy Instead of Your Time
“The top 10% of employees with the highest productivity didn’t put in longer hours than anyone else — often they didn’t even work eight-hour days. Instead, the ...
How to Improve at Anything Using the Plus-Equal-Minus Method
“The simple mantra, ‘I know nothing’ has helped me so many times in the past seven years. I owe any success to those simple three words: I. Know. Nothing.”
Six Things You Need to Recover from Every Day
“People who are successful in their work are often content being “unsuccessful” in the other areas of their lives — particularly their relationships. In other w...
The Real Reason Amazon Bought Whole Foods
“This is the key to understanding the purchase of Whole Foods: to the outside it may seem that Amazon is buying a retailer. The truth, though, is that Amazon is...
35 Words You’re Probably Using Wrong
“Dilemma: Confused with ‘problem’. If you have a problem, you do not know what to do. There may be many solutions. If you have a dilemma, you have a choice of t...
It’s the Best (And Worst) of Times for American Restaurants
“The golden age of restaurants is a bit like today’s golden age of TV. For television viewers, there have never been more options or, perhaps, better quality pr...
How To Eliminate Distractions And Strengthen Your Focus
“Our main finding in this study was that, interestingly, older adults [focus on] relevant information as well as 20-year-olds. Where older adults suffered a def...
How To Conquer Your Fear Like A High-Wire Artist
“Assemble weapons to destroy fear. Start by reacting to fright not by burying your head in the sand but by burying your mind in knowledge; then follow with spec...