Note: This is a guest post from Celestine Chua of The Personal Excellence Blog
Have you ever received negative feedback before? Say, a friend or family member complaining about you. A boss or colleague critiquing your work. A partner or a spouse unhappy with something you did.
I run The Personal Excellence Blog which has a readership [...]

Do you want to be effective? Then you need to focus only on a few important things. This is the essence of the 80/20 rule. Unfortunately, it’s easier said than done. You might try to simplify your life only to find that you are still doing too many things at once. You might try to [...]

Note: This is a guest post from Ian Coburn of Best Possible Choice
We’ve all experienced it—utter disbelief when someone who is obviously ill equipped for a role, typically in management, gets it, or snagged a client we wanted. How do such things occur?
To find the answer, look to the recent Olympics shellacking Russia took at [...]

In the post 4 Lessons on How to Get Things Done, there is an interesting comment by Mark Foo:
Bill Gates once remarked that the key to succeed in business is to innovate and make yourself obsolete. If you don’t make yourself obsolete, your competitors will make you obsolete.
I agree completely. We live in a fast-changing [...]

Note: This is a guest post from Chris Birk of Write Short Live Long
Carefully chosen words are among the most disposable items in today’s throwaway society.
That’s helped to make compliments — real, meaningful words of praise — an increasingly elusive treasure. The reality is that the art of giving meaningful compliments has become a dying [...]

That’s what James Cameron said at the end of his TED talk and I love it. It’s simple but powerful. Failure is an option, but fear is not.
Unfortunately, people often do the exact opposite: failure is not an option, but fear is. They don’t tolerate failure but they tolerate fear. They despise people who fail [...]