How Adding to Your Schedule Can Make You More Productive
Tim Ferriss, the bestselling author of the Four Hour Work Week, talked about getting a dog, Molly. He said that having a dog has helped …
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The Opposite Strategy – Using Paradoxes to Generate Crazy Ideas
“If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don’t sheep get smaller when it rains?” ― Ron Brackin As a young teen, I spent hours thinking …
The Pharmacy Store and Rubbing Alcohol – A Lesson on Looking for Things That Dont Make Sense
A pharmacy store was looking at their sales data for their retail products and saw an unusual spike in sales of rubbing alcohol during the …
The Forest and the Tree Strategy for Generating Ideas
Although I call this the Forest and the Tree Strategy, I learned about this strategy for generating ideas from Edward de Bono in his excellent …
Why You Should Set a Vision for What You Want in Your Life
Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger is an amazing autobiography from an amazing individual. I read the book several years ago but decided to ‘re-read’ the …
Give Me Five Minutes and I’ll Tell You How To Stay Cool, Calm and Collected in Stressful Situations
When I was young, paramedics came into our school to talk about their job. Although I don’t remember 99% of what they told us, I …
Twelve Micro Habits To Gain More Energy in Your Life
After a long day of work, I was in the elevator with fellow consultants. We had all put in long hours, at the end of …
Why You Are on the Treadmill All the Time (and What To Do About It)
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as …
How To Find More Time To Work on Personal Projects
Do you sit in bed, reflecting on what you did that day, and realize all you did was work and eat? Do you get to …
The Best Thing I’ve Done For My Career is Aim For Perfection
I still remember the first task I worked on when I joined management consulting: they asked me to build a skeleton of a PowerPoint deck …