“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” – Woody Allen The basics of financial success are fairly easy. Don’t spend money you don’t have. Put away a portion of your income into savings. Budget yourself and invest your money where it can generate returns. The hard part is often making these fundamentals […]
Problem Solving Toolkit: 33 Tricks to Answer Tough Problems
When trying to solve tough problems it’s beneficial to have several tools to use. I’m sharing 33 here that you can immediately use.
Give It To Me Straight – 11 Tips for Better Feedback
Feedback usually has little or no bearing on quality. Every person has a different style of giving advice. That style doesn’t usually change much whether they think you are almost perfect or downright horrible. When you ask for feedback, what you hear says a lot more about the other persons “feedback style” than your inquiry. […]
10 Tips for Enjoying Solitude
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” – Francis Bacon A little solitude can be relaxing. A lot can make you feel lonely, isolated and miserable. But sometimes solitude is unavoidable. You may have to close yourself away from friends to finish a project. You may be placed into […]
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