In yesterday’s nugget, I talked about straightforward ways to live well. In today’s nugget, as promised, I’m launching a new challenge that combines two pieces: focusing on gratitude and doing one thing you are telling yourself you “should” do. As I discussed recently, let’s drop the “should.” You might want to take a quick peek …
What is the foundation for living a good life? How much must we have and achieve? Or better yet: Who must we be? Could it be more straightforward than we often think? In today’s society (in the U.S. and other “first world” countries), many of us are under constant stress. Constant stress is devasting to our …
Sometimes it is high time to take a refreshing mental bubble bath. Take a break. Do nothing to achieve a goal. It occurred to me to call that a “mental bubble bath.” Take an actual bubble bath. Light a fire in the fireplace. Listen to music. Sit on the couch with your spouse or a …
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What is your life’s story – the story of your life in the making? What are you going to look back on in the last few minutes of your life? Sure, we do not control everything. There are many things in life where we have little to no say. For example, The economy – each …
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Advertising bombards us all the time. Tuning it out as best as possible seems to be a matter of self-defense. How then can your business gain visibility and credibility? How can you build trust? And at some point, how can you make the sale so that you can feed your team, your family, and yourself? …
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This headline is provocative, I realize. There are tasks we “should” do, even when we are not drawn to doing them?! Let’s take a closer look. The word “should” is almost always used for things we think we need to do… but don’t feel like doing them right now. Or, we tell ourselves we don’t have time for …
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Universities train students to become specialized experts. It turns out that they instructed us to become like “high-prized horses with blinders on.” By that, I mean they taught a lot about our field. Yet, we got little to nothing that would help us use our expertise in an entrepreneurial setting. In 1997, I left academia and joined …
What happens when the metric turns into the objective? It can have a devasting impact. Let’s look. I’m going to talk about an example regarding grades in school and then expand the conversation to metrics in business. How Do We Measure Learning Success In Schools? Kids do not get grades during the early years of …
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This Brilliance Nugget is not bashing parents making comments at kids’ sports games. As you will read shortly, I have been there and done that. How often do we make comments or give advice from the stands instead of stepping onto the field? Here it goes. We were sitting in the stands watching our sons …
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