The better you are at what you do, the less you are asked to prove your worth or face formal evaluation. In many ways, that’s only logical; The greater your competence, the less need there is for a company to spend valuable time and resources overseeing you. If...
Perhaps you had a teacher when you were young who saw something in you and nurtured it. Maybe it was your business mentor, or the manager at your first job — we all owe a lot to the people who believed in us along the way. At some point, however, we have to...
You may have some fantastic ideas for a new business floating through your head, but unless you can communicate them well enough so that others can share your vision, they’ll never make it into the real world. Many people think that having communication...
Remember when you were young and your parents told you that you could be anything? You want to be a doctor? Absolutely, work hard in school, get good grades and you’re on your way. You want to be a football player? Absolutely, work hard in school get...
In the past, I’ve written an all-encompassing piece on my idea of treating business as a game. Now, in step-by-step increments, I’m going to break down the process and put on display how you and anyone else can reap the same rewards that I have in my business life....
In my recent piece “Approaching Business as a Game,” I detailed the methodology behind the experience that seems to be lost on so many working class people today: actually enjoying your work. The simple fix, treating business as if it were a game, is something...
You’ve probably heard that the average human being spends one-third of their life sleeping. So how do we make sure that we’re getting the most out of our sleep? We buy an expensive, adjustable mattress, we shell out money for pillows from Sweden and we take all the...
Go ahead and Google the phrase “work-life balance,” and see what sorts of results you get. Go ahead–I’ll wait. I wouldn’t expect you to sift through all 21 million plus results that Google suggests for the term, as that would take up far too much of your free time....
Hustle is in my blood. It was in the blood of my parents, who got it from their parents. Hustle was passed down to me from generation to generation. Now, hard work is all I know. If I don’t know something, or don’t understand something the first time around,...
I’ll be the first to admit it, I love playing games. The best games involve strategy, quick and forward thinking, a clear end goal and a lot of investment on the part of the players. My favorite game of all time is one that combines all of these aspects plus...
