The Dangers Of Keeping Score
Have you ever felt anxious about your job, but you don’t know why? Maybe it's because you're keeping the wrong score.
The Dangers Of Keeping Score
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Discover What’s Worth Working For, Then Spend Yourself On It
Discover What’s Worth Working For, Then Spend Yourself On It
I just spent years researching and writing a book about voice. Voice? Seriously? Why would I do that? Honestly, if I offered you ten potential books to read, and a book about voice was among them, I'd guess that the voice book would probably be among the least...
Failure Is Inevitable. What Matters Is How You Deal With It.
Failure Is Inevitable. What Matters Is How You Deal With It.
After expending so much time, energy, and focus on something you care about, it can be devastating when it just doesn't click. What you do next is very important.
No One Will Fight For Your Work Like You Will
No One Will Fight For Your Work Like You Will
You can't afford to put the fate of your work into someone else's hands. Fight for it and be tenacious. No matter how great the trainer, every boxer has to step into the ring alone.
Bravery Is A Discipline, Not A Trait
Bravery Is A Discipline, Not A Trait
People who choose bravery know what drives them, and they care more about the outcome than they do about temporary discomfort.
Mick Jagger And The Uncertainty Of Creative Success
Mick Jagger And The Uncertainty Of Creative Success
Don't believe the lie that success is inevitable. On the inside, where all of the risk is being taken, it often feels like things could fall apart at any moment, and that's precisely how it should be.
Are You Stealing From Yourself?
Are You Stealing From Yourself?
Don’t rob yourself, and stop trying to will yourself to do better. Instead, recognize that small actions of focus and discipline today is the best way to love your future self. Make investments today so that you can reap a return tomorrow.
Why Does Criticism Sting?
Why Does Criticism Sting?
It’s often not the circumstances we learn from, but our response to them. Identifying limiting narratives or patterns of self-destruction can help us spot them when they crop up, then nip them before they cause us to implode or obsess needlessly over critique.
How To Receive Negative Feedback
How To Receive Negative Feedback
There's no delicate way to say this: many of us carry weapons. Not literal weapons (most likely), but figurative ones, and we get trigger happy the moment we experience something we don't like.
Why You Must Invest (Time) In Yourself
Why You Must Invest (Time) In Yourself
Anything of value that you wish to create will require a significant investment of time. Brilliant work is expensive.
Pushing Through The Season Of Incompetence
Pushing Through The Season Of Incompetence
Any time you are attempting to learn a new skill, or experiment with a new means of doing your work, you will inevitably go through a season in which you risk coming across as incapable of performing well.
Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone
You cannot pursue great work and comfort simultaneously. While you may experience comfort in the course of your work, or as a by-product of your work, great work and comfort are mutually exclusive objectives. Brilliant bodies of work are built as people choose over time to do the right thing, even when it's the uncomfortable thing.
What Space Do You Own?
What Space Do You Own?
Can you sum up why you do what you do in just a few words?
Trophies, Metrics, and Great Work
Trophies, Metrics, and Great Work
How your metrics for success determine the choices you make about life and work.
Are You Too Comfortable?
Are You Too Comfortable?
Why hovering around our comfort zone can be a creative death sentence.
Re-defining Failure (And Success!)
Re-defining Failure (And Success!)
How we define two simple concepts can ultimately lead to brilliant work or paralysis.
Becoming Like The People You Spend Time With
Becoming Like The People You Spend Time With
Our relationships can either bring out the best or the worst in our creating.
The Gift of Gratitude: Take Time to Say Thank You
The Gift of Gratitude: Take Time to Say Thank You
A simple thank you note can spark a world of creative gratitude and focus.
Finding The Fire in Your Gut
Finding The Fire in Your Gut
Have you ever thought about what fuels your best work?