“Pie. I wish I could determine pi, ‘Eureka’ cried the great inventor” Time someone learning the number pi fluently to 11 decimal places. How long would they take? 10 minutes? Longer? To get it accurate? That’s 14 digits. Takes some effort. Time yourself repeating the title (Pie.) and first two lines of the poem above, …
Want to see how you might look through the eyes of someone else? Here are two ways to get closer to this: 1. What values of theirs do you admire? They probably notice and admire the same in you. 2. What do you not like so much about them? Take the opposite of that. Go …
Next, you should do the thing that’s stopping you from doing the next thing. What’s the next thing you really should be doing? The thing that’ll make the most impact on your life, and preferably make tomorrow easier or better? What’s stopping you from getting that done? Attend to that right now.
So what are YOU going to do about it?
There are two types of value: I rhymed them intentionally to help recall, because they’re worth recalling. If you just provide the value people request, you’re leaving an awful lot of value on the table. Because all of us can only see so far. You provide more value and become more valuable when you also …
I’m often asked by clients which of their current employees should be selling or engaging customers. There are numerous traits that suggest someone could ‘sell’, or be a strong leader (because the two roles are similar). But I’ve boiled down my top three: 1. They have strong ‘belief in cause’ 2. They’re credible in front …
Someone you care about believes something that you know is nonsense, and you can see it’s harming them, or other people, and maybe even harming you. Because you care, you wish there was a way to help them out of it. Consider this: You Cannot Reason People Out of Something They Were Not Reasoned Into …
You can’t help the hand you’re dealt. But you can help how you play those cards. And here’s what most people miss: you don’t have to play the cards you’ve got! People overlook this, using only what thinking or options come naturally to mind. But you now know that you can always pickup from the …
You are responsible. Whether you like it or not. And whether you accept it or not. Not for what you were born into, or your upbringing, or for some of what life puts on you. But you are responsible for your: And these, combined with execution, time, timing, and circumstances create outcomes. Which could be …
When my son was little he came in crying because his sister called him an idiot. I said “well, are you?” He said “no!” I said “well, you haven’t got anything to worry about then.” He stopped crying. Chimp brain out the way, I added “and if you’re not, then that also makes her wrong. …
