A Written Record of Personal Self-Improvement
When I've blogged here at Goal-Keeping DBA, a lot of the posts are applicable to the business side of things, too. It's no longer just self-improvement isolated from that space. As a result, I'm consolidating the posts that would normally be written here to be posted at Truth Solutions instead.
Motivation doesn t matter. Discipline does. That s the message from Jocko Willink and Leif Babin in the following clip. Jocko uses the example from BUDS training of having to get back in the water. The instructors order it and no one wants to get back into that water. There is zero motivation to get back into [ ]
"Commitment is about depth. It’s about effort. It’s about passion."
This is when my co-worker Paul stepped in. About the second week of December, he used the TechNet subscription as incentive to finish my MCSE by the end of the year.
I ve taken a lot of lessons from chess. I ve also taken a lot of lessons from masters of the game. One such master is International Grandmaster (GM) Vladimir Kramnik. In 2000, Kramnik defeated GM Garry Kasparov to claim the World Chess Champion title. He held that title until 2007, when he lost to GM Viswanathan [ ]
Seth Godin recently wrote a post on his blog titled Inverting the Vex. He briefly discusses the difference between a problem and a situation and the inherent choice we usually in either case: If a problem is vexing us, we can use that irritation as fuel, finding the energy to deal with it. We can [ ]
But there are two positive ways to use the phrase. The first is when dealing with imposter syndrome... Another situation is when we're trying to learn something.
ut if we make small changes, changes that are easy to digest (pun intended), and those changes become habits, and then we build on those habits with additional small changes, we'll eventually get to the big change we need to make.
Just about every resource I ve found which covers the secrets of high performers points out that all high performers have their routines. These routines help them handle mundane aspects of life efficiently, which helps with their overall time and stress management. We all have some routines. For instance, for those in the workforce, there s typically [ ]
Advice that s always given towards personal finance is to understand how much money we have, where we have to spend it, and to ensure that we are spending our money based on our priorities. Folks who don t do these things tend to struggle with their finances. The same thing is true with respect to the [ ]