When was the last time you went to get mechanical repairs or servicing done to your vehicle and came away raving about the experience? Probably never, right? Well, my wife had to get a new battery for our van last …
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – Babe Ruth. Known as the ‘Sultan of Swat’, Babe Ruth, voted in 1999 by an ESPN poll as the third greatest US athlete of the century, had a …
When people say they don’t have enough time to do something, what they are really saying is that it isn’t a high enough priority. It always amazes me how a funeral with over a hundred attendees can be organized in under …
Have you ever had the feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day? It can be stressful. Often times it can be a result of having unfinished commitments or loose ends. A loose end is an unfinished or incomplete commitment. …
One hour a day, three days a week, pretty well every week for ten years my grandfather (Opa) would teach me either Lithuanian or German language. At the time it was gruelling. I called it “the dungeon”, even though we sat …
Depending on your life stage you may be feeling frustrated with life right now. That sort of sounds like a horoscope from the newspaper, but it’s not meant to. I’ve had periods of my life where I’ve felt frustrated with what’s …
It’s now mid February, and statistically we’re at about the point when most of people’s new year’s resolutions have fallen by the wayside. I notice it especially at the gym, where in early January, the crowds flock. With Christmas weight …
How often do you feel like you’re the hamster running furiously on the hamster wheel? I walk to work every morning and pass by an old car covered in hundreds of stickers. I think the stickers are keeping the old rust …
Are we motivated by rewards? Conventional practice would say “yes”, but science would say otherwise. In the laboratory, rats are rewarded with food. In the classroom the top students are rewarded with A grades, and in the workplace, the best …
A fascinating story about turning conventional wisdom on its head and how a business profited from utlising the brain-trust of the whole world. In January 1848, a work crew at John Sutter’s mill, near Sacramento, California, came across a few …
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Earlier this week I had a meeting with an entrepreneur. He's run a number of businesses and now he's developing a community...
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