“To make sure you’re really being conscious about your spending, you need to spend on the things you love — while ignoring everything else.”
How to Build a Budget You Will Stick With
What Happens When You Ask Your Friends to Rate You
“Once I got past the blows to my ego, the criticism, though it stung, was actually pretty useful.”
How to Introduce Yourself in an Unforgettable Way
“Answering with your title and company is the cultural norm. But when you do, you’re missing out on an opportunity for the other person to know who you actually are. You are not just your job.”
How Gary Vaynerchuk Maximizes His Social Media Content
“The ultimate goal of creating this presentation on my content model is to show you how my team took one of my keynotes, repurposed it into 30+ pieces of content, and then successfully distributed all of that content, resulting in over 35,000,000 total views.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“You are as much defined by the things you don’t do as by the things you do.” — Tessa Thompson
15 Truths About Work-Life Balance That Just Might Help You Find It
Work-life balance isn’t easy.
One of the biggest reasons for that is the countless myths we tell ourselves about why we can’t find balance, what might happen if we cut back on our work, and even what balance actually is.
There’s no magic bullet to ensure you find balance in your life, but the following are some ideas to help you reframe how to think about work-life balance and get you closer to achieving it.
Commit to Something
“The most menacing dragons that stand in the way are the everyday boredom, and distraction, and uncertainty that can erode our ability to commit to anything for the long haul.”
It Only Takes 25% of a Group to Change the Group’s Opinion
“The knowledge that just 25 percent of a population can affect social change could be both encouraging and, well, slightly frightening. For social activists, this news is likely reassuring. They don’t need to convert an entire population to their view — 25 percent will do — and a single person really can make a difference.”
There Is No Right Decision
“Choices can be well reasoned or poorly reasoned. Their results can be surprisingly beneficial or surprisingly damaging. But there’s no such thing as a categorically right course of action, just an array of possible ones — and for each, a sprawling, endless web of consequences.”
Stop Trying to Change Yourself
“We don’t know what change is because we don’t know what the hell we are. If I wake up tomorrow and do the exact opposite of everything I do today, am I a changed person? Or am I simply the same person who decided to try something different?”