Are you your best friend?

Imagine your best friend is going through a tough time.They aren’t able to succeed or are really sad.Would you start telling them that they’re no good?That they can’t ever do any good?That they should already give up? No. Right? We hate going around people who bring...

Resist the obvious

If you invest in a stock with the information that everyone has, you will get the returns everyone else gets.If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Same choices, same results.Yet each day, we go...

Is it possible to multitask?

We know we shouldn’t do multiple things at a time.But how to accomplish the huge list of tasks we have? One task at a time.Then moving on to the next. We’ll be more focussed.And get things done in less time, which will allow to move to the next task Our brain craves...

Why do we procrastinate?

We are procrastinating.On that project that is important to us.On that gig that will get us closer to our dream.On writing that email that might help us land our dream job. Not because we can’t.But because we are afraid. Afraid of doing it wrong.Afraid of criticism of...

Amateur versus Pro

“It’s raining today. Let me not work today and enjoy instead.”“It’s a festival today. Let’s skip the workout.”“It’s too cold today. I’d rather not get to the desk and write.” These are words of an amateur.  However, a professional shows up to work...

“I am rambling”

How often do we find ourselves saying that or thinking to ourselves, “I am rambling”. Thoughts are coming, but they are unstructured, they are fast and don’t do justice to what I know about the subject.  The solution is to write.To speak in a manner that is...