How to Use Objectives and Key Results to Plan Your Days
96 percent of personal development efforts fail because of good intentions and bad strategy. Fortunately, you can overcome this with the use of objectives and key results.
How to Be Successful on Your Own Terms
How do you define success? This isn’t an easy question to answer. But it’s likely your current definition of success wasn’t a deliberate choice. For most people, our definition of success is handed to us from the world around us. That makes it difficult to be successful on your own terms. How You Lose Sight…
Declutter Your Digital Life to Multiply Your Productivity
How would you describe your digital life? If you don’t know how to organize or declutter your digital life, you would probably describe it is noisy, overwhelming, and distracting. Many people sign up for 100 newsletters, listen to 50 podcasts, and click on every link that rolls through their news feed. Their consumption habits are…
The Power of Honoring Your Commitments
Do you ever say you’re going to do something and then “I’ll do it later” becomes never getting around to it. If you’re like most people, you fail at honoring your commitments in small ways. You do this throughout your life and while often unintentional- it comes at a cost. You do one of the…
How to Conduct an Annual Review: The Ultimate Guide
We’re two months away from the end of the year. It won’t be long before you’re looking back at this year, making plans, and setting goals for the new one. But 96 percent of personal development efforts fail. Setting goals and making resolutions might feel good. But it doesn’t lead to anything if you don’t…
The Purpose of Wealth and the Illusion of the Next Level
In the pursuit of more we overlook the fullness and completeness that are already within us waiting be discovered. Our drive to enlarge our net worth turns us away from discovering and deepening our self worth. — Lynne Twist, The Soul of Money From an early age, we are programmed to live our lives in…
30 Keys to Creative Fulfillment
The geography of a creative life is filled with peaks, valleys, dead ends and detours. When you’re building a career in the arts, there is no map. You use a compass. You don’t always know where it’s going to lead or how you’re going to get there. It’s almost guaranteed that your life won’t go…
The Creative Process Isn’t Linear
There’s one difference between creative people who finish creative projects and those who don’t. People who finish understand that the creative process isn’t linear. Throughout our lives, we’re conditioned to take a linear approach. The entire structure of our formal education is linear. There’s minimal deviation from the options in front of us and little…
Your Brain is Not a Hard Drive. Stop Using It Like One.
The biggest cause of information overload for most people is a lack of organization. Even though your brain is not a hard drive, people treat it like one. Between a dozen inboxes, notifications, and text messages, we wake up and drink from a digital fire hose. And we wonder why we’re so scatterbrained. Then, we…
The 90 Minute Morning Routine That Can Change Your Life
I have a confession. Despite the fact that I write about and even teach workshops on how to get better at it, I suck at managing my attention. It’s led to poor grades, being fired and so much more. But a few years ago, I figured out how this simple morning routine changed a lot…
