Category: Personal Development
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Book Summary: The Dip
“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.” Seth Godin, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit “The Dip” by Seth Godin, explores the concept of quitting strategically in order to achieve…
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What kind of work should you do first thing in the morning?
“Your most important work, your highest-value work is the work that is most important to your team’s mission.” There’s a lot said among productivity pundits about the power of doing our most meaningful or most high-value work first thing in the morning. The theory being, and it’s backed by research, that we have the most…
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What do you want your legacy to be?
When you move on from your current job, what kind of legacy do you want to leave behind? It’s a tough question to answer, likely because you’ve never really thought about it before. You should though. And, here’s why. So many of us make the mistake of letting our careers happen to us, rather than being proactive and…
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How to learn & move on from your mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes, but what separates the successful from the unsuccessful is the ability to deal with them positively. In fact, the truly successful don’t just deal with mistakes, they embrace them and learn from them. In the words of Dale Carnegie, author of one of the most important books on human relations in the history of…
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