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Better Goals - Finding Cohesion Between Your Long and Short Term Goals
Our goals usually take two forms: what we want to accomplish, and who we want to be.When we can align these things, we find cohesion in our goals, giving us more clarity and purpose.
Better Goals - Two Guidelines for Better Outcomes
Two guidelines for better goal setting.First, goals don't stand alone.Second, ranges often beat arbitrary points.
5 Powerful Questions To Design Your Time More Effectively
Stop and think about how you are spending your time.Time is constantly moving, whether we stop to recognize it or not. How will you spend it? These five powerful questions will help you reconfigure
Short Term Tactics, Long Term Principles
A short term mindset will focus on different things than a long term mindset. Neither is right or wrong, but what are you optimizing for?Once you answer this question, you can start to work towards
Revolutionize Your Most Important Meetings with Powerful Questions
Your best tool is your next question.
Diffuse and Focused Thinking
Diffuse thinking produces options and draws connections. Focused thinking narrows things down to a specific path.Use them both, and watch for when they collide.
Why It's Hard to Do Nothing
Doing nothing seems like it would be easy... But it seems that action is often easier than doing nothing. Sometimes, perhaps often, action is the right choice. However, if there is no reason to belie
Demystifying Decision-Making - Success is Not Just About Making Good Decisions
You are not the sum of your decisions. Making better decisions often relies on having a long list of mistakes to learn from.
What You Have In Common With the Smartest Person In the World
How does the smartest person in the world solve the most complex problems that most mathemeticians can't even understand? The same way you write code and build features at your job. The principles al
A Way Out of Overwhelm
Choose one thing. Only one important thing. Do that over and over. That's your way out of overwhelm.