“The best way to be highly influential is to be human to everyone you meet.”
Seven Ways to Become Well-Connected
How to Walk 100,000 Steps in a Day
“Fear is a great deterrent to anything. Long ago, I learned to look at worries as challenges.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
What Will Happen If You Start Today
You’ve got a thing and you know it.
A thing you want to do. Or need to do. Or are scared to do.
A thing which could change everything.
But you can’t get yourself to start it.
How to Be Successful and Create Something Important
“You don’t want to be in a career where people who have been doing it for two years can be as effective as people who have been doing it for twenty — your rate of learning should always be high.”
Make Decisions Before You Have To
“The thing about difficult decisions though, is that making them over and over again only compounds the difficulty. Instead, make decisions once, before you even have to.”
Five Creative Ways to Increase How Much You Earn
“The moment you start trying to justify what it is you do and the value you provide by focusing on all the nitty-gritty things, you’ve lost.”
Why You Need a Point of View
“A POV is not a sales pitch. Not directly. The utility of that point of view is not to capture dollars by selling a thing. The utility of that POV is to capture attention by selling an idea adjacent to that thing.”
Seven Ways to Make Your Meetings Better
“Score every meeting. Score it out of ten at the end of the meeting. Not just you, all participants. Do it for client meetings too. Nothing below a score of eight counts as a good meeting.”
The State of Work-Life Balance in 2019
“Knowledge workers, on average, have just 2 hours and 48 minutes a day for productive tasks (or 14 hours and 8 minutes a week). The rest of the day is spent on neutral activities (1 hour and 6 minutes) and distracting activities (1 hour and 12 minutes). In fact, on average, 21% of the workday was spent on entertainment, news, and social media.”