February 20, 2025
Want to break out of your meeting “blahs” or get a problem completely out of your head? Go for a walk – a cold walk – a walk so cold that your face is freezing and all you can think about is getting back to working on that problem you were trying to escape from. A walk where all you can think about is your face freezing and how warm your mitts truly are. I don’t do these types of walks all the time (they are too cold) – but it’s a great way to break out of the funk
February 19, 2025
I see it with other bloggers, I see it with my own writing. I’ll have a spark of a great idea, start writing the draft, and then see that I wrote about it before with that elusive “-2” added to the post URL. I used to get bummed out “I stole my idea” but not anymore. I write the post, I push it out and only then do I go back and look at what I had previously written. Sometimes it’s the same, sometimes it expands on what I previously wrote, the odd time it goes in a completely different
February 18, 2025
Do you know what you’re up against? Another team? Another product? Another competitor? Is that what you’re up against or is that what is easy to write down that you’re up against? Perhaps it’s more… Your own ideas? Your ability to execute? Your own ambition? The other person down the hall who is trying to get work done as quickly as you? The podcast that ships out content 2 days before you? You might not be up against what you think you are actually up against. And if you don’t know who you’re up against, how do you know you
February 17, 2025
When you don’t know the answer to a problem, you need to go look it up. It might not be as formal as what it used to be – going to the library or bookstore – but what you’re doing is still the same – Research. You’re digging into a topic you want to find the answer to. The problem (if you want to call it that) with Research, is that when we start doing Research, it opens up more and more questions, you get a bit deeper, find your answer, and hen come up with a few other questions
February 9, 2025
If no one listens to what you say, is it really a project you’re working on? Are you actually contributing to something? Are you a part of something? The choice is yours, work with them to get them to start listening to you, help them see what you’re trying to move them towards, or step back and out – you don’t need that ongoing frustration in your life, you have more to offer. Someone is always willing to listen and there is someone out there that wants your advice – they just haven’t found you.
