What to Pay For/Charge As a Consultant?
Consultants can earn anything from nothing to holy-moly-thatsalotta-dough. Generally, we pay a consultant roughly what we might pay an accountant or a lawyer. Whether we are considering hiring …
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How to Deal with Haftadoos
We resist tasks that we think we have to do. We resist because none of us wants to be told what to do. Yet we somehow …
Wantrepreneur Cure
Wantrepreneurs are people who deeply desire to start a business but don’t. Fear is the main obstacle. We worry whether our idea is right, if we …
Even a Little Stuck on Yuck?
You know that mental or emotional tension we all–to some extent–seem to carry around? It’s like a base level of blah. It may come and go. It …
Getting It All Done Is Not The Point
Tasks, to dos, and emails. Projects, meetings, and calls. Documents, errands, chores! So much to do. I’m so far behind. How to get it all …
Take the Longcut
We could take shortcuts. We could try to entice, lull, force, trick, or beg our clients and colleagues into doing what we want them to do. …
Leading Has (almost) Nothing To Do With Getting Stuff Done
Growing up, our adults taught us to get our stuff done. “It’s important,” they all said. We learned how to sleep through the night, eat …
How Would People Say They Benefit from Your Work?
We can best describe what we do by imagining how clients or bosses would say that they benefit from our work. Try completing this template …
How to See Failure
We can see failure in two ways: as something we work (damn) hard to avoid or as no big deal. When it’s the former, we …
Success and What We Really May Believe
In daily life, we assume as certain many things which, on closer scrutiny, are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a …