- 5 Things To Quit If You Want To Level Up Your Life. “Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt” ― Seth Godin The secret to life is quitting. Who knew, right? The secret to life is quitting the right things, before it interferes with everything else, before it weighs you down, and before it destroys you. The secret is quitting the crap that doesn’t matter. The secret […]
- 6 Ways to Help Battle the Effects of Burnout The entrepreneurs all over the world are stressed with one question the most, “What If I Fail?”. This stress pushes them to work even harder round the clock, ultimately leading to the burnout. So the question is, “How do you help employees (or co-founders) who are experiencing burnout get back on track?” Here Are A […]
- Ten Habits That Will Dramatically Improve Your Life In Hans Christian Andersen’s fable The Red Shoes, a young girl longs for a pair of pretty red shoes. She ultimately tricks the blind woman who cares for her into buying her a pair. Her love for the red shoes causes her to give them priority over the more important things in her life, and, as often […]
- Seven Steps To Learn and Master Anything As Quickly As Possible I hate learning. I wanted to learn how to trade stocks and I ended up losing my home. I wanted to learn how to play chess better and in one of my first tournaments I threw all the pieces on the floor and cried. I wanted to learn to play poker and I lost about […]
- Ten Things Smart People Never Say At Their Workplace There are some things you simply never want to say at work. These phrases carry special power: they have an uncanny ability to make you look bad even when the words are true. Worst of all, there’s no taking them back once they slip out. I’m not talking about shocking slips of the tongue, off-color […]
- How Entrepreneurship Addiction Can Possibly Go Wrong This is a subject so interesting that even the researchers at the top-ranked business school Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University in New York were tempted to do a study on it. In their paper titled “Habitual Entrepreneurs: Possible Cases of Behavioral Addiction?“, they mentioned that habitual entrepreneur, those who launch multiple startups throughout […]
- 11 Hardest Things About Starting A Company Question: What are the hardest/easiest things about starting a company? Here are a few answers from 11 startup entrepreneurs reminiscing their experience, the success and the hurdles faced during their own startup journey. The Uncertainty Jonathan Long, LAWYE.RS – “The uncertainty is the hardest part of starting a company, but it is also the best part. While you […]
- Doing What You Love Is Going To Be F**king Hard “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” I’m not sure who said that. Like all quotes that we don’t know the origin of, it’s attributed to Confucius — but that’s probably inaccurate. In any case, it’s truly one of the worst cliches I’ve ever come across and one that causes […]
- Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his […]
- Top 9 Ways To Avoid Burnout Passion is a beautiful thing. An idea pops into your head, and you lose all sense of the world, as you immerse yourself in it. It might be your latest startup idea or a new design project at work. But even when you are knee deep in a project that brings you joy, burnout could […]
- 8 Things Smart People Never Reveal About Themselves At Work At work, sharing the right aspects of yourself in the right ways is an art form. Disclosures that feel like relationship builders in the moment can wind up as obvious no-nos with hindsight. Trouble is, you can’t build a strong professional network if you don’t open up to your colleagues. Doing so is tricky because […]
- One Small Change I Made That Improved My Daily Mental State We all have a pretty good idea about things that drag down our productivity or suck up time that would be better spent on more fulfilling activities. Two years ago I made a commitment to stop bringing my mobile phone into my bedroom and with like a 95% compliance rate this made a big improvement. At […]