These questions are part of the 12 Week Year process, which I’ll describe in more detail in a future update to this post. For now, here is the Worldview Exercise. Individual Worldview Exercise 1. What are your immediate circumstances? What is happening right now? What issues and concerns are
Pretend you’re dying… More on that in a bit. It’s always easier to solve someone else’s problems, isn’t it? Start lifting weights. Break up with the toxic partner. Stop climbing the corporate ladder when you’re clearly an entrepreneur at heart. Obvious… to everyone but the
Sometimes inspiration comes from unexpected places. A couple weeks ago, I was down with the flu. It’s been a brutal season this year; everyone seems to be getting sick. Anyhow, as I often do when I’m recuperating, I took some time to get caught up on some shows
Every year when we do our budgets at my company, we practice a methodology called “Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB),” the basic premise of which is to start with a completely blank budget and add in your projections for the year to come. Before we switched to zero based budgeting, we
Do you remember the scene in the movie Fight Club where Tyler threatens to kill the convenience store clerk unless he changes his life and starts down the path of becoming a veterinarian? Death, it appears, can be quite useful. The scene is stirring; visceral. It’s almost impossible not
I recently came across Seth Godin’s work, The Icarus Deception, which is an excellent book about seeing the world a bit differently and then making choices to better align with the reality you want to create. Early on in the book, Godin reminds us that the tale of Icarus
The last time I bought a new computer, I noticed something. It happened when I was getting iTunes set up, and the songs that I had previously purchased were downloading. The default method was to download all the music at the same time, and as a result, the process was
You know the one. That voice that creeps beneath the surface, the one that laughs at you when you fall and whispers in your ear to make the wrong choice. The Shadow seems to delight in your suffering, and appears to want only to make sure that you stay weak,