Can you measure what you do 4 times a day?
I’m writing this post on a timer. I am doing this as part of a practice suggested by Jason Womack in “Your Best Just got Better” – the basic idea is to measure what you do so that you can…
Tiny Habits Build into Great Behaviors
I signed up this week for the TinyHabits program from BJ Fogg at Stanford. The program – a way of training yourself to take small steps that will build into specific behaviors – intrigues me because it mirrors a few practices I’ve…
3 Things We Can All Do To Make Our Emails Better
I hope that you’re enjoying a pause right now and thinking about the people and things that matter most to you. A friend shared this article with me about Volkswagen’s effort to limit after-work conversation and it struck a chord with…
Next year, I hope we all say more of what we mean
I’ve done it. You’ve done it. We’ve all done it. Whether it’s talking like ironic cats that have poor grammar, saying “it’s ok” when it’s really not ok, or just not waiting until your thought is fully formed to start…
Travel opens your mind
What do you do when you travel? My best thinking time is in airports or on planes. Even with the advent of airport and onboard wi-fi, I find my best ideas come from reading (from a book) and writing (longhand,…
Why you should always ask…
I get satisfaction from helping people to meet other people, and to helping them find answers (or at least ideas to help them) to the questions they’re asking. It opens up my horizons to all of the possibilities I haven’t…
Be More Timely with Your Twitter Updates
Dear Twitter Friends (Tweeps): We’ve all done it – thought of a clever idea, jotted down 140 120 characters and then clicked “send.” Yet, as Dan Zarrella and others have noted, now is not always the best time to publish content.…
It’s time to work yourself out of a job.
Imagine if one day, you walked into your office (or opened your email or received a text message or a phone call with the following information: Congratulations! You’ve worked yourself out of a job. Now, what will you do next?…
Why your social graph should be bigger (not smaller)
I meet a lot of people who are interested in segmenting their social graphs — keeping Facebook for friends, Twitter for fun, and keeping business contacts, well, focused on business — and they are missing something. It’s Too Hard It’s…
