Why is one of the most important questions you can ask. It’s also one of the most important questions you can be asked. However, many people react badly to why. It may start at a young age. As young children when we ask why we’re often told, “Because I said so.” This creates the mindset [...]
If you really want to succeed you need to make the choice to be excellent. You also need to understand that you will never get to that goal. Excellence is not something you can attain. It is a constantly moving goal, that forces you to continuously improve. Excellence is a journey, it is the effort [...]
The headline of this post would seem to be ridiculously obvious. If something has failed, you don;t want to copy it. Yet many companies and even more politicians rush into things with a “me too” mentality and grab failed ideas. To be clear, I’m not talking about taking a failed idea and reworking so it [...]
As the northeast U.S. prepares to be blanketed by 1-2 feet of snow, there are a few lessons that business people can take from the coming storm: Prepare: You should have a plan for dealing with a crisis. Keeping a copy of important data on a laptop or smartphone can keep your business going if [...]
An educational group has just unveiled a proposal to provide free preschool for every child in the United States. The cost of the program is $200 billion initially and then $20 billion per year. My first thought upon hearing this was, “that’s not really free is it?” If something costs $200 billion, that money has [...]
If you want to succeed, both personally and professionally, you need to reboot periodically. The constant pressure of daily life, pending projects, and never-ending deadlines takes a physical and mental toll that will keep you from doing your best work. In order to get your best performance, here are some tips to reboot. Close The [...]
I was flipping channels recently and came across an old episode of Star Trek. The Enterprise was falling into a planet dooming them all and Kirk called for engineering to restart the engines. Scotty said it couldn’t be done. “You canna break the laws of physics,” he explained. Of course five minutes later the impossible [...]
For the past several days the news of a horrible tragedy has gripped Connecticut, the country, and indeed the world. I’m referring to the senseless deaths of 20 children and six adults in the massacre at Sandy Brook Elementary School in Newtown. For most of us, the images are still fresh in our minds and [...]
To-do lists can be lifesavers when it comes to managing your work. But sometimes they’re nothing more than a list of things you never get to. Harvard Business Review offered these three tips for making them better: Bucket the work. Categorize items in a way that makes sense for you. Group them by project or [...]
In mindset training, we often talk about limitless possibilities and that you can do anything. The fact is there are certain things you can never do. You will never run a marathon in fifteen minutes, you will never flap your arms and fly to the moon, and you will never be able to lift two [...]
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