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Should You Quit? Ask These 5 Questions
Recently, I was having lunch with someone earlier in his career.
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Don't set resolutions, set goals
and then build the right habits to support
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Solving Loneliness Starts with Understanding How Friendships Really Work
If friendship is a function of time, look at where you are spending yours
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Keyboard shortcuts can change your life
If someone came to you with a magic wand and said that they could give you an extra two - eight work days per year - what would you say?
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The pain of delay
A problem avoided today accrues interest like a payday loan. Avoidance is never free.
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10 thoughts on time
“Time is a storm in which we are all lost.” ― William Carlos Williams
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Making space
In filling emptiness, we miss a deeper truth. Space can be deeply soothing and therapeutic.
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The lost art of waiting
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.” — Leo Tolstoy
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What happens if Jack is all play and no work?
Is there something worse than being dull?
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Beware “Stuff Debt”
Even if we can afford the first cost, the second and third costs can become an expensive ‘debt’ on our life’s balance sheet.
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What Will You Do With Your 30,000 Days?
“But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is…
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Your Fifth Strategic Goal Isn’t That Important
There is tremendous power in curating your goal list
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