I’ll give you the bad news first, so you can get the good news last.
The bad news is that you cannot manage time. To the extent that time is even real (it’s a construction of humans . . . ), it is immutable. Your perception of time can change, but you can’t control it, or even manage it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock There’s so much “out there,” but what you see is depends on what you look for. It also depends on what you’re willing to see. * * * What do you look for? What are you willing to see? The answer to those…
As destructive as gossip is normally, turned on its head it can be an incredible force for good. A recent e-mail from Darren Hardy described the power of reverse-gossip: talking about people, behind their backs, in a positive way. Read about it here. It’s akin to (a definition of) true generosity: giving to someone who really…
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely* try to help another without helping himself. – Emerson Everything is sticky, whether you’re generous or stingy, helpful and conniving, thoughtful or selfish, . . . everything rubs off on you. Be very careful what you rub up against – whether it’s…
There’s a difference between cognitive knowledge (facts, ideas, etc., in your brain) and physical knowledge (being able to perform certain actions to achieve a result). And both are important. To know something cognitively is to study it in-depth: to read books from experts, consult with people who have experience and understand the component parts of…
Everyone wants to be able to retire with financial security and peace-of-mind. Most people think they need a financial advisor to do so. In this (what turned out to be a long) post I will lay out the basic formula for retiring with enough, and how some types of financial advisors could leave us with…
I was listening to Tripp Lanier interview Mark Divine on his New Man podcast (good stuff… ) and Commander Divine talked about how life is sort of like business, or the economy, in that it’s a progression, over time, with peaks and valleys. Life – but certainly not a successful, satisfying, joyful, useful life – can be linear…