Your Offers Accepted
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek We all have something of value to offer. Whether we …
We Cannot Multitask
We can try to do many things distractedly. We can try to improve how quickly we switch from task to task. We can be stressed …
What Buddha Said
Here’s an interesting quotation: “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” …
Ignore the Trolls
Trolls at work (as opposed to on the Internet or elsewhere), are those selfish, slimy, fake, icky manipulators we sometimes encounter. Trolls are the ones …
Respect Your Talents
Many of us don’t respect our talents. We often deny having any talents (we each have them). Or we think that our qualities are not …
Our Illusions of Failure
We thrive when we go within ourselves for direction, validation, insight, and answers. We fail–or at least get stuck on “meh”–when we reach outside ourselves …
Pushy People, Success, and Obstacles
Successful people have a special relationship with obstacles: they push through them. Unlike people who are just pushy, angry, or demanding, the truly successful people …
Let Them Copy You
I cannot argue that we needn’t bother protecting trade secrets. Maybe there are ideas or methods that should be kept hidden away. Or maybe the …
How to Better Handle Other People’s Requests
When people ask us to do things, we usually respond unthinkingly with “yes,” “no,” or silence. That’s because we are unsure about what else we …
It is Not What We Do
Greet the client using the phrase the other retail automatons use or be genuinely glad they arrived? Profit as the driver or the happy byproduct? …