Perseverance is defined as persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Two keys to perseverance are the reasons behind why you should keep going and distance (real or perceived) to where …
Circumstances beyond my control led me to stop producing this podcast, again. As it happens, circumstances have changed, and opened a window to allow me back in to produce this podcast.
Last week I had an extremely rough week at work, but a particular routine was interrupted that almost had me drop an especially important streak. As you work to progress in life and career, you cannot be scared to set a rout…
Any time you are ready to take a stab at personal improvement by setting a new goal to achieve, you can use this simple five-step goal planning system I use myself.
You can gain an advantage by taking time the night before to plan ahead. You can gain an extra advantage by planning your day from the end to the beginning.
There are many words you can choose to describe your view of the last 12 months. I would guess that few of them would be kind. But the word that should sum it up for all of us on the planet is hard. In fact, that word should…
That next encounter could be the introduction of the love of your life. Or it could lead to a huge business deal. Or it could be a polite conversation that fills a temporary gap in time.
It's a simple statement: you always learn more from real-world experience. But you don't have to be the person who lived through the experience to receive the lesson.
I had a former coworker who moved through various roles and nearly destroyed them at every stop. I have also had personal relationships that ended on sour notes with my ex’s pushing the needle even further after the break-up…
The way to work toward the raising of the average is not to push hard for solid A’s and extra credit towards the end of the grading period. It comes from ensuring you never make failing grades from the start.
Your business should do more than just work to make a profit. It should matter to the people who work there, the people who shop there, and neighbors around it. Ask yourself this question and study your answers.
You have all the rights in the universe that you are the center of to do as you wish. But you do not have the right to bully anyone around that would directly affect their status as the center of their own universe.
It just takes one little slip to lose your momentum and all incentives from the hard work you had previously put in. But temptations will come, so you must have a greater understating of your true motivations to help you def…
I once had a boss who tried to reassure me that my inability to clean my office (and create order) wasn’t a sign of failure, because I thrived when working in chaotic situations. This is me stating for the record that while …
The ability to spread misery is more powerful than any virus that man could imagine. But you can do your part to keep the spread of misery down when you do find yourself in that state.
Being alive on a planet with over 8 billion other humans means abiding by rules to keep everyone civil and safe. But every rule on the books, despite its ability to keep us all civil and safe, may not be as necessary now as …
There are two simple tenants to personal improvement. It is improvement for yourself that can affect the world around you (not the other way around), and there must be some sort of measurement of improvement to gauge if the …
In times of trouble, it’s good to know who will really be there to help you out. Do you know who will really be there to help you out in times of trouble?
Any goal worth achieving will take effort--i.e.--work to accomplish. But when that work turns to obligation or tedious activities, you have to ask yourself what about your work is making it so much like ‘work?’
This is the 100th episode of the Ten Minute Life Lesson podcast. And while I am normally big on celebrating milestones, this episode will focus on a simple premise: using a checklist to stay productive (and sane).
If you ne…
