Category: Book Reviews
How The Story Of A Pencil Will Make You Think Hard About Your Place
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What does a pencil mean to you? Maybe you don’t use a pencil, so let’s make it a pen or your preferred writing instrument. As I look around my desk I see 2 pens, and a few pencils plus a permanent marker. If I empty my pockets I find another pen and if I look…
Business change, make sure you have a plan to pivot effectively
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Most of us have heard that people won’t be working one job for their whole life. In fact if you’ve been doing the same thing for more than 2 – 5 years employers are starting to wonder what’s wrong with you. Where a 180 in a career focus was once seen as a black mark…
What if there was a way to 4X your results this year?
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Most people say they want to be more productive. I get it, you want to get more done. The problem is that you don’t want to get some random ‘more’ done. What you really want is to get more of the right stuff done. For that reason I don’t say I want to get more…
How much mess do you embrace in business? Should you be embracing a more Messy business?
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Is it possible to take the ideas in books like Deep Work (my review) too far? Can you lock yourself away to focus on the work at hand and miss out on your best creativity? This is the central thesis of Messy by Tim Harford. The argument of this book is that we often succumb…
Don’t let email overwhelm you, Unsubscribe
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Oh email how we hate it. We can spend an entire day in the office pushing email and feel like we did nothing of value. For most of us that sentiment is true. We did almost nothing of value with our email time. This state is a place we all exist in at some point.…
When work is hard, should you quit or keep going?
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I’ve been at this coaching thing for about one full year. Yes I’ve written books before. Yes I’ve sort of said that I can help people run an awesome business in years past. But at no point did I sit down and do the hard work it would take to make mentoring and coaching my…
Do you have the capacity for life and work?
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I feel compelled to make this disclaimer for some of my readers, if you’re not someone that is comfortable with lots of talk about faith. In particular a Christian God, then this is not a book for you. Please read on to see my highlights on the content of the book, but don’t get it…
How do you become so good you can’t be ignored?
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Commonly heard advice for anyone looking for success is “Follow your passion”. The theory goes that if you’re passionate about it, there should be enough others that will come alongside you and give you money for that passion. The siren song of living your passion is so strong. You’re passionate about rock climbing, so you…
Learn how to reach past the things that are hard and master them
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We all have things that are easy for us. Maybe you are built to be a runner and it’s always felt easy. Maybe you love to get up in front of people as a speaker. The flip side to the ease with which some tasks come to us is that other things are very difficult.…
Will You Become The Master You Aspire To Be
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Remember when you started driving and everything felt like it was happening so fast? Remember that first time you got on the highway and went 100 km an hour? It felt like so much was going on at once. You tried to watch the speed of the car and make sure that you didn’t run…
