Get On A Bus!
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
But if you never get on one you’ll never go anywhere.
If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any. – Darren Hardy Priorities are a combination of goals and what matters to you now – right now, today, this week and this month. When you prioritize something you make something more than just a goal, more than something you will work on if you…
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker I (might) take this idea too far sometimes. I take pride in the idea: “I don’t always do everything I could, or ‘should,’ but whatever I do, I do well.” I know that, deep-down, more-often-than-not, it’s…
Here’s some ancient wisdom: “To do two things at once is to do neither.” – Publius Syrus And some modern “validation:” People confuse “rapid-switching” with multi-tasking [NPR article] And Peter Bregman explains that trying to multi-task makes us less-smart, less-productive and less-competent [HBR Blogs] I’m convinced (of course I already knew that trying to multi-task was…
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross For so many of us, this concept is foreign. What’s more, for those folks to be confronted with this truth, great upset would likely ensue. But…
I recently read a post on Johnny B. Truant’s blog that really hit home. So much so that I wanted to do two things: share it with my readers and 2) think on and write about each piece of his post. The post is “20 Truths About Life No One Wants To Believe” and the seventh one I…
To find yourself, think for yourself. – Socrates Putting aside the powerful notion that one does not find themselves, but rather creates themselves, let’s take what we can from Socrates words. If you keep using and thinking other people’s words, you will be living as a imitator, never really knowing who you are. As July…