In the martial arts, we spend a lot of time learning how to face and deal with difficult situations, dangerous enemies, and unpredictable challenges. However, the worst, most dangerous enemies we often face are ourselves. We get in our own way. We sabotage ourselves. We make things more difficult than they have to be. We…
Here’s a fun exercise to try at your next in-person marketing event. The difficulty of this exercise scales with how centered on your product, service, or business you are, and its value scales inversely to that self-centeredness. The more you can lose yourself, the more you’ll gain from the exercise. This trick is also an…
“You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth, that you…
Are you stuck feeling like you’re writing the same old thing and need fresh new ideas about it? Try this trick to get yourself unstuck. To make the most of it, have a notepad available at all times to take notes on fresh ideas and thoughts as they occur. Take any topic that you’ve got…
Creativity is an awful lot like gardening. To have the healthiest, most productive garden, you need to create appropriate conditions. The soil has to be the right acidity for what you want to grow. You need the right amounts of sunlight, water, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, appropriate drainage, etc. for maximum potential. However, you can create…
Making mountains out of molehills is an old idiom that refers specifically to someone blowing an issue far out of proportion. In cognitive psychology, this is known as magnification. It’s such a common psychological phenomenon that we’ve had cultural idioms for centuries describing it, such as Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing. Magnification works based…
Resolutions are a tricky thing. On the one hand, significant dates on the calendar are a great excuse to make changes you might not otherwise be motivated to make, and lots of other people will be seeking to make change as well. On the other hand, attempting significant change normally requires some level of planning,…
Have you ever had a glimpse of the greater you? Maybe you reacted in an emergency with greater speed, confidence, or strength than you thought possible. Maybe one day you were forced by a sense of needing to pause, only to be confronted with an amazing sunset or the perfect evening breeze. Maybe in a…
In the world of nutrition, what does a diet of constant snacking get you? How healthy is the end result of little snacks all the time, especially when the snacks are of dubious quality? One of the most popular formats for writing content nowadays is the “snack-sized” content. 5 tips for this, 8 ideas for…
Are you familiar with the Golden Rolodex? It’s a sales expression as well as a human resources expression. The Golden Rolodex is your personal database, your personal set of connections and relationships that you’ve built over your career. When companies are looking to hire top talent in sales and executive functions, very often the Golden…
