Sharpen Your Axe: The Value of Preparation
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln A great quote, isn’t it? It’s the opposite of what many people do. When they have a project to…
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Review: Career Renegade
Do you want to make a great living doing what you love? I certainly do. The book Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields aims to help you achieve exactly that: The simple truth is you can turn nearly any passion into…
How to Fight a Good Fight in Your Career
In the post Keys to Success from The Dip, the first point is “Aim to be the best in the world.” Don’t be satisfied with being good enough. Don’t settle for mediocrity. You need to push yourself forward until you…
Essential Skills for Success: Learning Skills and People Skills
We now live in a fast-changing world and your ability to adapt is becoming more important than ever. In this kind of world, just being a generalist or specialist is not enough. You need to become a versatilist. A versatilist…
Keys to Success from The Dip
A few days ago I finished reading The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin. It’s a short book (96 pages) so it didn’t take much time to read. But,…
Life Management Principle: What Gets Measured Gets Managed
Do you want to grow well? Life management is something you should not miss then. Good life management ensures that every aspect of your life grows as it should. Without good life management, it’s easy to leave out some aspects…
Diversify Your Income to Prevent Financial Problems
In the post How to Save Time in the Long Term, I wrote that we need to minimize our potential regret to save a lot of time in the future. The reason is that we lose more time not by…
Simple Lessons on Work Productivity
I got an experience last week that taught me some lessons on work productivity. My laptop’s LCD screen was broken. When I turned on the computer I got the screen on for only about one minute before it went blank.…
9 Tips to Live an Abundant Life
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.Sue Patton Thoele Living an abundant life is everyone’s dream. We all want to live a prosperous life where we can be happy and fulfilled. While it may seem difficult for some people, in…
Networking Can Get You A Job Promotion
Note: This is a guest post by Andrew Rondeau of Great Management As an employee, we all want that job promotion, don’t we? So let’s just say, you are ready to get promotion. You do your job exceptionally well. You…