The Willingness to Think Differently Post written by Leo Babauta. I can summarize the most successful people I’ve ever known with one trait: the willingness to challenge mainstream ideas. This has been the key to everything good in my life too: I changed my health and drastically reduced my carbon footprint when I stopped eating like everyone else around me and…
How To Use Headlines To Get To “One Thought” by Sean D’Souza Haven’t you stood in the wrong supermarket queue before? Every other queue seems to move ahead, but no, you had to pick the wrong queue. And there you are stuck as ever, cursing your luck. Because even though you’re in no hurry to get anywhere, you still don’t…
Change Contributed with permission: @Robert W. Gunn & The AccompliGroup.com Most people assume that change has to be difficult. But it can be as simple as having a different thought, and then choosing to act on it. The sages say that nothing endures but change. That is certainly true in the natural world: seasons change; continents move, and galaxies form, collide and…
How Skills Really Do Trump Passion Passion simply is not something you can track down, harpoon, and haul home. This may be quite alarming to those who have bought into the myth that Passion is something that either finds you, or you “find” it, then act on accordingly. Cal Newport gets my vote when he suggests the reverse in his…
Two Ears and Only One Mouth: Are You Listening? by Sherry Lowry/The Lowry Group It has been said that there is a reason why humans have been given two ears and only one mouth. Listening is a crucial activity yet one we devote so little effort to improving. It is essential for building healthy relationships and successful partnerships. Here are…
7 Habits of Highly Prolific Writers by Henri Junttila Are you eager to write? People call me prolific. Yet I don’t spend all day writing. You don’t have to go “full-time” to be a prolific writer. And in this article you’ll see why. It comes down to being efficient. Knowing what to do, when to do it, and how to…