Work Less and Do More

In my business blog today, I got a little, er, hot about tax season. In my footnote, I flamed on about the 2004 elections, noting:
One thing I’m sure of: none of you stopped to analyze the quality of your 2004 decision-making and explicitly change the criteria you used to make your bad decision. It may [...]

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There’s a motivational question people ask: What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? It’s a good question for getting over the hurdle of fear of failure.
For me, it can kick me into action. Once I’m in action, though, my immediate instinct is to do what makes the most sense to reach [...]

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A friend asked a very good question: how will my book be different from the other productivity books on the market?
My intent is to provide tips that cover a wide range of emotionally-powerful issues that have simple, behavioral solutions that impact people’s feelings of happiness and success. To me, the point is to live a [...]

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@chrisbrogan was asking how to focus on life goals. Is this an issue you have, too? How come? What gets in the way?
It seems to me two important aspects to focusing your life on your goals are:

Know what your goals are.
Say ‘No’ to time uses that aren’t aligned with those goals.

What are your obstacles? How [...]

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In a rather extensive twitter thread, we’ve been discussing how “failure” serves us. The consensus seems to be: failure is a good thing if we learn from it. So if it’s a good thing, why do we fear it? (Since after all, we can always elect to learn from it.)

@candees: we’re afraid of others’ perceptions [...]

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