Reading Time: < 1 minI recently read the excellent book “Banana Ball“, the story of the Savannah Bananas baseball team. I was well-aware of the team, but have yet to attend a game and the book was fantastic. One part of the book talked about the Negro baseball league and how it was always underappreciated. It’s been more appreciated […]
Encouragement
Work-life balance versus simple tolerance
Reading Time: 2 minWork-life balance is one of those things that can be interpreted in many different ways. Generally speaking, I find that balance not to be in a perfect 9-5, 50/50 kind of way, but in balancing the various parts of your life as needed. Last year I shared Rory Vaden’s thought on this, where he said: […]
Grateful in the macro and the micro
Reading Time: 2 minWhen you ask someone what they’re grateful for, you often get the same kinds of things – health, family, friends, etc. Those are all wonderful things, and we should all be grateful for them, but being grateful for smaller things can sometimes have a bigger impact. In a recent episode of “My First Million”, the […]
Do you want to write more? Do nothing.
Reading Time: 2 minWriting can be difficult. There are times when you know it needs to be done but you just don’t want to do it (or you don’t have any ideas, or some other excuse). Neil Gaiman, author of dozens of popular books, has an excellent solution that’s served him well. When it’s time to write, he […]
Fewer goals in 2024
Reading Time: 2 minOne of the most impactful videos I watched this year was Emmanuel Acho’s TED talk on goal setting, as I shared here. More specifically, it was his talk about not setting as many goals. As I mentioned in that previous post, this is something I’ve done for a while anyhow and it was great to […]
Being fully prepared
Reading Time: 2 minI tend to be pretty good about preparing for the near future — doublechecking itineraries, preparing notes for client calls, things like that. In the grand scheme of things, those are pretty easy to do. On the other side of things, you have the prep that Taylor Swift had to put into her shows and […]
Character is worth more every day
Reading Time: < 1 minThe rapid development of AI is likely to lead to a number of things. One side of that will be the glut of content that we’ll need to deal with. With AI, people and companies are going to be churning out more content (whether they need to or not), and that’s mostly going to be […]
Reaching a goal is the penalty you receive for setting one
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve always had a difficult time setting and sticking to goals. I’m great with routine (this blog is a solid example), but I’m not great at setting goals. While I think I still need to improve in that regard, perhaps routines can be a better fit than goals in many cases anyhow. In a podcast […]
Balance doesn’t mean 50/50
Reading Time: < 1 minUs humans are weird. When given two similar choices, we often assume that the odds of each choice is 50/50. That’s true in a lot of cases, like flipping a coin, but it also causes us to struggle to understand variances like in the Monty Hall problem. When it comes to work/life balance, you don’t […]
Tell your story yourself
Reading Time: < 1 minWe’re at an amazing point in history where gatekeepers no longer matter. While it can still be beneficial to get your company highlighted in the news (in a positive light, hopefully), that’s not something we all need to chase after. In a recent podcast interview with Gary Vaynerchuk, Danny Meyer (the famous restaurateur featured in […]