Category Archives: Learning

Better To Do The Right Thing Wrong, Than The Wrong Thing Right!

I heard a talk about changing perspective, and that quote jogged my understanding of failure. Better to fail at the right thing cause that’s how I can get where I really want to go. If I use short term failure as my criteria for success, I’ll never try anything worthwhile. I wonder if that’s why so [...]
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The Power of a Cold Shower

The other day I was in a foul mood when I was unexpectedly doused with cold water. Oh the joy...
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Goals Gone Wild

Anything that is widely and blindly handed down from management and self help gurus should always be scrutinized. I just read an article about why skepticism is healthy with regard to the rampant carpet bombing of goal setting mania. Researchers found goal setting itself is not magical. If the goals are poorly chosen, or not [...]
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Discover Momentalum: Getting Past Multi-tasking Mania

Working with momentalum is a way to get past blind allegiance to productivity styles.
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To Biographate: Too Much Biography

In an effort to stop social bone disease, I propose a new word, biographate, a verb that means to speak of oneself as if writing (or reading from) one’s biography. It sounds harmless enough, but it’s a rampant social disease. You ask a man at your dinner table to pass the salt. Instead of doing so [...]
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Pollution Starts at Home

Pollution start at home, and so must opposing it...
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Three Magical Questions to Get Started on Anything

I am a recovering perfectionist. These three innocent looking questions help get me started on any task...
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