Athletes work hard to develop incredible muscles. They use these muscles to make quick, powerful movements that lead to success in their individual competitions. As an entrepreneur, your essential “muscle” is your ability to make decisions. You either cultivate and strengthen this ability, or you let your decision muscles atrophy through procrastination and indecisiveness. If you [Continue Reading]
Anti-Time Management – The 80:20 Principle & Parkinson’s Law
Wise use of your time is critical as entrepreneurs and investors. We all have more projects than we do time in the day. But the traditional word “time management” never struck me as extremely helpful. Management to me means getting more efficient at organizing and dealing with the thousands of stimuli in your life. You could be very efficient at managing [Continue Reading]
How to Achieve True Financial Security
Many of us have been conditioned from our earliest days to think about job security, rather than financial security or financial freedom. And because most of us learn little to nothing about money at home or at school, it is only natural than many of us cling even more tightly to the idea of job [Continue Reading]
The Urgent & Important: How to Take Control of Your Time
If you’re doing anything worthwhile, you’re busy. There never seems to be enough time in the day, does there? To improve this situation, you can start by learning better time management techniques, like good to-do lists and productivity hacks like the 2-minute rule. But at some point efficiency at doing more is not enough. You can [Continue Reading]
There Are No Secrets
NOTE: I wrote about no secrets in The 7 Principles of Success at CoachCarson.com. But the subject is so important, I wanted to expand on it again by itself. Secrets sell. That’s why late-night infomercials and hucksters of all kind pitch their snake oil as “new” or “little known” or “exclusive.” But you know the truth. Whether it’s a [Continue Reading]
To the Naysayers: Do You Create or Just Criticize?
By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others’ work and belittle their motivations?” Email from Steve Jobs in response to criticism, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs I laughed out loud when I read this exchange in Walter Isaacson’s biography of former Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. [Continue Reading]
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