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Category Archives: Self-Improvement
Success and Failure: You’re Thinking About It Wrong
We dream that someday soon, someone will recognize our genius: a big time agent reads our script and signs us; a major creative director sees our work and is compelled to feature it; the CEO reads about a project we … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Business, Career, Failure, Goal, Progress, Success
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Nobody Cares About Your Happiness
If you’re lucky, 10 people might care about your happiness. Â That’s it. Some other people might care whether you show up for work. Â They might care whether you perform, which means they care that you’re just happy enough not to … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Happiness, Job, Meaning, Purpose, relationships, Selling, Work
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Everyone Else Is Smarter Than Me
If you’ve ever watched the Olympics, or professional football or basketball, you know what sheer talent looks like. Right? You know what god-given ability looks like: Usain Bolt demolishing runners in every race he enters; Michael Phelps beating the world’s … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Choice, Deliberate Practice, Intelligence, Skill, Smart, Work
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“I Have a Problem”
Problems are generally thought of as bad things. And, for the people afflicted with those problems, they undoubtedly are. But problems are what drive the service industry. People’s problems managing or finding time create opportunities for personal assistants, shoppers, organizers, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Law, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Career, Job, JSK, Problem
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Steve Jobs on Failure
I’ve never found anyone who didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help. Most people never pick up the phone and call; most people never ask. And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people who do things and … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Failure, Fear, Steve Jobs
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The Problem With “No Problem”
“No problem” is almost universal in service industries today. “Can I get a refill?” “No problem.” “Could you transfer this money from my checking account to my savings account?” “No problem.” “Thanks.” “No problem.” It may seem innocuous, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Persuasion, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Tips
Tagged Four Seasons, Language, My Pleasure, NLP, No Problem, Ritz-Carlton, Service
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You Are Not Too Busy
Richard Branson owns and operates more than 400 companies under his Virgin Group. He sells everything from music to trips to space. He sets world records on sailboats and hot-air balloons. He appears in movies and television shows. He writes … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Goal, GTD, Plan, Productivity, Richard Branson, Work Out
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It’s OK to be Uncomfortable
Sometime in the last two generations, Americans decided that it’s never okay to be uncomfortable. Any hunger should be sated immediately. Any pain should be assuaged post haste. Instant gratification not only became a staple of modern life, it became … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Diet, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Comfort, Gratification, Hunger, Pain
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The Underdog
The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand? Seneca, Letter VII Seneca’s exhortation of Lucilius to avoid pandering to mass appeal has … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Self-Improvement
Tagged Crowd, Information, Seneca, Underdog
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A Hell of a Eulogy
Worrying about your legacy is ridiculous.  Fretting over how people you will never meet will come to judge your life is not only rewardless, it’s counter-productive.  It generally inhibits your ability  to focus on how the living, the people you … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Christopher Hitches, Death, Eulogy, Life, Planning
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How To Lose 20 Years Of Your Life
Depending on whose numbers you believe, Americans watch between 2.7 (BLS) and 4.9 (Nielsen) hours of television per day. Per day. Let’s split the difference and call it four hours a day. If you’re awake on average 16 hours a … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Life, Television, TV, Waste
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Three Tips To Help Convince People You’re Not A Serial Killer
We deal with a lot of higher level stuff here, like strategy and philosophy, but I want to bring it down for a post to offer some very practical, easy to implement, and essential life tips. Today, I want to … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Tips
Tagged Body Language, Eye contact, Tips
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Why The First “Follower” Is The Most Important
A great lesson on how movements start, explained in this video in under three minutes, by Derek Sivers: It’s the first follower that turns a lone nut into a leader. Â When you find a lone nut doing something great, have … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Video
Tagged Derek Sivers, Follower, Henry Ford, Leader, Movement
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A Plant Frequently Moved Never Grows Strong
A plant which is frequently moved never grows strong. People who spend their whole life traveling abroad end up having plenty of places where they can find hospitality but no real friendships. We place a big emphasis, and not wrongly, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged experience, Goals, Life, mastery, relationships, Seneca, Stoicism, Travel
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