Dad is All In, not a bumbling idiot and it’s time to recognize that
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I was having a discussion this week with two ladies at figure skating. They said they loved seeing me play with my kids that aren’t on the ice. For the first hour of figure skating, I have one kid on the ice, so I get to play with a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old. For the…
Where to Start When You’re Drowning in Business and Life
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When you realize you are out of sync with your Strengths and your goals, and you have put yourself and your health on the back burner, don’t beat yourself up. Just restart. – From Frustrated to Frickin’ Awesome It happens to all of us at some point, including me. I don’t have it all together.…
What Good Employee Feedback Looks Like
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Most businesses do employee feedback in the form of a yearly review. It’s what they’ve heard someone else does and by making it yearly, they only have Schedule time for it once a year. But there are a few issues with that. First, you’re showing that you don’t value it if you’re thinking trends towards…
Clients are an Awesome Constraint
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Deep down, we all harbor a fantasy: We do creative work, throw it in the mail — someone else sends us a contract and doesn’t bother us again. No one gets to tell us what do to; our art remains pure and untouched. – Perennial Seller That is the dream of most developers, isn’t it?…
Brent Hammond on Managing Your Energy
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Today I had the great pleasure of talking to Brent Hammond. I went to one of Brent’s courses in Vancouver a few years ago and when I was thinking of someone that I wanted to talk to about work life and rest, he was on the top of my list. Today Brent and I talk…
Are You Ready to Turn From Frustrated to Frickin’ Awesome?
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Business is a frustrating endeavour. Most of it is hard work that gets little recognition punctuated by mistakes that everyone sees. Everyone once in a while there is a bright spot and it keeps us going. In From Frustrated to Frickin’ Awesome, Alissa Daire Nelson is trying to help us remove some of that frustration…
The Easy Way is A Lie, Do the Hard Work
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There are a lot of things to focus on when you run a business. It doesn’t matter when the workday ends; there is always something that could be done. You could refine your marketing funnel. Reply to one more email. Reach out to a prospect. Tweak your site. Knowing this, it’s so easy to get…
When You Stop Trying, Progress Plummets to 0
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Any endeavour worth doing is hard. What looks effortless from the outside is the result of thousands of hours of previous practice. I can write 3000 words in 90 minutes because I have published more than 200k words in the last 12 months. I’ve published something like that every year for five years. It’s only…
My Phone sucks, and it’s one of the best things that’s happened this year
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I haven’t been kind to my iPhone 6S Plus. It’s been on a number of hikes where it got so cold it shut off. It’s turned itself off due to being way too hot. It’s slow now, and when travelling, I need to charge it every few hours because I’m using it. At home, it…
Week 5 Update and the importance of rest
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We’re in week Five of my final 12 week year and the pace I’ve been running at just shows me that, rest is so important. The first four weeks I got so much more done, but I’m already feeling how hard it is to keep running at a pace that I knew was not sustainable…
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