Do. The. Work.

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead. – Tom Peters The only job security, if there is such a thing, is intelligently growing your skills and abilities to meet future challenges and opportunities with ambition, capability and capacity. What your learning plan? How are you growing?

“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau People say they’re so busy, so stressed, that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it, that there aren’t enough hours in the day, if I could just…

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix I guess Jimi’s genius went beyond his ground-breaking guitar work…

When a problem comes along, according to the New Wave band Devo, you must whip it. I am here to suggest that when a problem comes along, you would do well to Triple A it. I had this idea as I was nodding off to sleep last night, and rather than think (/vainly hope) that…

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin Pretty self-explanatory, but I’ll buttress the sentiment with what is arguably my personal motto* (borrowed from Viv Savage, the keyboard player in This Is Spinal Tap): “Have a good time, all…

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein So many people associate curiosity with research or innovation, but it has a (wonderful) personal application: How can you be curious about yourself, who you are, what you want and how you can get it? When you use curiosity in this way,…