What’s important to you?
There are days when you feel that you get nothing done. There are days when it feels that all you’ve been doing is running around putting out little fires everywhere. You’ve been reacting to the whims of everyone around you all day long. Those days are exhausting. They drain your energy and leave you feeling flustered and frustrated. Having several...
The myth of overnight success
You hear about them on the news. Everybody loves the overnight success. The undiscovered wonder child who suddenly became successful. The natural talent who literally was picked directly from the street into the studio. Or something along those lines. What they neglect to tell you is the years of hard work that preceded the success. The late nights and early...
The early adopters
Right at the beginning of the curve, before the steep power of exponential growth sets in. That’s where you’ll find them, the early adopters. They are the ones that are trying out new things that most of us haven’t heard about at all. They are the ones that are shaping your future even though you’re completely unaware of it. They...
Say you want a revolution?
What can one person do? As it turns out, a lot. History is full of people who led major revolutions. Not all of us will lead a revolution that will change the world entirely. Not all of us will gather masses of several thousand that are protesting in the streets. Not all of us will be written about in history books...
Learning is a slow process
As we enter a new field that we know nothing about, we want to become masters of it as quickly as possible. Eager to become professional, we try to take shortcuts in the learning process. Don’t. Don’t ignore the fundamentals. Don’t skip the basic lessons. Don’t disregard the essentials. Learning new skills have to take time. Let them. There’s no...
Stop waiting for someday
A blank page. Intimidating. Nothing to see. Nothing to write. Nothing to say. But that’s not true, is it? We all have something to share. A story to tell. Your story is unique. No one has a history quite like yours. No one has the same experiences. Similar maybe, but never the same. Yours is a story worth telling. But...
Is this going to be on the test?
Why do we learn things? It’s in our genes. We are inquisitive by nature. We want to understand how things work. We want to acquire new skills. We are creative. We don’t really need to know that there are such things as black holes. We don’t need to know anything about space to cope with our daily lives. Yet, ever...
3 things you need to stop doing
Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans. - John Lennon Why do we run through life at the fastest pace possible? Why do we always look forward to the future? To that someday when we will have more time to do what we truly want. We just need to keep working that dreaded job until...