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The Deeper Level of My Mission

I haven’t been completely transparent with you about what I’m up to – thus far, you’ve only seen pieces of what I’ve been working on all these years. Even my last attempt at this in “What I’m Here to Do” muted the deeper level of my journey. The other day, Pam and I were talking [...]

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Getting Fun, Profit, and Impact to Converge in Your Business

These three overlapping circles aren’t the only themes to cover when it comes to the art of business, but they provide a great frame when we’re looking at the human side of our businesses. Profit is usually the first – and, unfortunately, only – objective that many people focus on when building businesses. It’s an [...]

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Build From the Red Line, Not The Deadline

Imagine that during a normal week, you set goals and deadlines that assume you’ll be able to do, say, 10 units of creative work. And that, during a normal week, you actually get 4 units of creative work done. Imagine that during light weeks, you set goals and deadlines that you’ll be able to do, [...]

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How to Limit The Busyness In Your Business

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Ever notice that the thing you most want to do in your business is the thing that’s the hardest to find time to do? It’s easy for the busyness of business to take over and make it such that every day, it seems like you’re getting further and further from the core of your [...]

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Just Get It Done

There comes a time in the midst of busy lives and business where you just have to knuckle down and plow through some of the projects on your plate. Perhaps it would be better if someone else did it. Perhaps there is a smarter way to get it done. Perhaps your resistance to it is [...]

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Superpower Development is Not for the Faint of Heart

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Karl Staib of Work Happy Now. If you want to do great work, you must be able to leverage your superpowers. I’m not talking about throwing on a cape and stopping a car from crashing into an orphanage. I’m talking about saving lives with your career. Too [...]

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How To Recover From 10 Types of Demotivation

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub. Motivation is central to creativity, productivity and happiness. Motivation is what causes us to act, and when we act, we create movement, growth and change, we feel involved, masterful and significant, we feel powerful through experiencing how we [...]

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The Dojo: A Guide To Doing What Matters

If you’ve been reading for a while, you’ve no doubt heard me mention that Jonathan Mead and I have been working on a product together. We started this project back in December and it’s grown into something quite different than what we started with. And by different, I mean a lot better. That product is [...]

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Are Your Goals S.M.A.R.T.?

Take a quick look at some of the goals you’ve made for yourself. A goal could be as broad as your bucket list or as narrow as your daily ToDo list. Are you setting yourself up for success when you’re making goals? One of the things that trips many of us up is that the [...]

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