Category: Personal Growth

  • We Can If…

    I came across this during a training session at work. It comes from a book titled “A Beautiful Constraint” about using limitations for creative productivity. Rather than defaulting to “we…


  • Maxim #23: Focus on Process Over Goals

    As the New Year is about to begin and many are about to set New Year’s resolutions, I would like to encourage you to Focus on Process over Goals. Goals…


  • The Second Score

    Why does it seem so difficult to effectively give or receive feedback? You would think that for something so important, both inside and outside of work, we would be better…


  • Maxim #22: Own the Ask

    Don’t wait for someone to ask you. You are the one who wants it. Take initiative. Take ownership. Own the Ask. Want to work on the project? Ask. Want a…


  • Maxim #21: Time Multiplies What You Feed It

    “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it… he who doesn’t… pays it.” – attributed to Albert Einstein, but I couldn’t find evidence…


  • Maxim #20: Think in Decades, Act in Days

    Think ahead. Think long term. Think with the end in mind. That was one of Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. What would Future You want to say…


  • A December for Experiments

    After a reminder to the world that January is Coming, I recently did a short series of posts on Building Habits (Principles, Mechanics, Support Structure). With those tools in our…


  • Maxim #19: To Be Interesting, Be Interested

    Are you nervous in social situations? Do you get anxious because you don’t know what to say? Do you worry about what other people will think of you? These fears…


  • Maxim #18: The North Wind Made the Vikings

    The Vikings were fierce warriors. Hard. Tough. Some of that toughness is because of the land from which they came. It was a hard, tough land. Cold. Windy. Weak people…


  • Building Habits #3 – The Support Structure

    So far in our Building Habits learning journey, we have looked at The Principles and The Mechanics. Now we will look at The Support Structure. Although these posts are in…


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