Most companies offer products or services that have a number of well-known, set features. They are a “finished good” and we gladly pay a premium for this work. Take for example a Restaurant. We would we pay three, four, or even 40 times as much for a meal that we...
I just removed a bunch of channels on my Roku. While this marvelous little box lets me add to its content almost infinitely, I realized that I wasn’t really using most of the channels. Like all of us, I have limited time to spare watching TV, and I will never...
Doing a good job gets you the next one, and just like that, the purpose of every meeting should be at least to get the next one. The therapist always books the next session right away and we always talk about the next one at the end of a date. Every meeting with a...
Finding one’s purpose is easy for some. They know already who they want to be, and what they want to do. It hasn’t always been so easy for me. I am a fast learner, because of that, I tend to do reasonably well in many things, and since I like variety,...
What would you prefer to be? We have a bias in our culture to think that firsts are memorable. And yes, when the goal is really hard but there are no nuances to it, it is usually true. The first to reach the North Pole, the first to go up to Mt Everest, the first to...
When working through something, do you look at what you still have ahead of you? Or what you have already done? I do both. And both serve different purposes. Looking at everything ahead helps me keep grounded and on-task. Just going through the list item by item,...
