Labels are tricky things. You can learn a lot about yourself from labels. Personality styles, for instance – everything from Myers-Briggs to the Enneagram and a host of others – can provide powerful insights into why you do things the way you do, what you might enjoy and excel at, and even into what’s most important for you. Personal attributes are …
Your Mom Was Right (and why that’s relevant)
There are things almost every mother ends up saying to her children. We recognize these pieces of advice and instruction as amusing mom-cliches simply because they’re used so routinely. And like most cliches, these bits of motherhood wisdom hold a certain kernel of truth. I noticed recently that many of them also apply to running a business. So whether or …
Got time for that?
“Not enough time” is a reason for not doing an enormous number of things. I’m convinced it’s 99% untrue. Seems to me … we do what we really want to do. So don’t tell me what you don’t have time for. Tell me what you do have time for.
The Power of Gradual
This post originally appeared in my newsletter. If you’re like most people, you want change and progress to be big, obvious, and fast. Yet real, lasting change and progress is seldom big, or obvious – and it’s almost never fast. It’s gradual. Incremental. Waves take years to shape jagged, broken bits into the beautiful, rounded forms of beach glass. And …