The Value of a Vision Statement
Here’s a profound thought: Whatever your current situation, from your bank balance to the shoes on your feet, it is the direct result of decisions you made getting here. You set the trajectory and forged the causal chain link by link, and it has all led inexorably to this place.…
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The Truth About Cord Cutters
Ask any teen or early-twenty-something how they kill time when they’re bored and I bet they say they search for videos on YouTube. Ask any person in their mid-to-late twenties how they kill time and I bet they say they watch Netflix, or Hulu, or HBO Now. Ask any person in…
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What’s Your Price?
“If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it. The reason I’m successful is because I worked 7 days per week, for 10 years to make it happen. Short of that, I don’t think I would have been as successful. And I knew…
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How to Create Products That Self-Promote (Drake’s marketing strategy)
I sat in a boardroom in Europe with the CEO of a record label who asked what I thought about Toronto putting out some of the worst cover art in the game. I laughed for a whole sixty awkward seconds because I knew as soon as the Internet woke up,…
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Why the Masters Doesn’t Start ‘Til the Back Nine Sunday
AUGUSTA, Georgia — Lining up his birdie putt on the ninth green at Augusta National, Jack Nicklaus suddenly stops. The crowd, one hole behind him, roars then roars again. Tom Kite and Seve Ballesteros both made eagles in the 1986 Masters. After the crowd settles, Nicklaus turns to the gallery and says, ”Why…
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How to Be the Calmest Person in the Room
There are 13.5 seconds left on the clock in the NCAA Division I men’s basketball final. The North Carolina Tar Heels trail the Villanova Wild Cats by three points. The Tar Heels inbound the ball to guard, Joel Berry, who dribbles up the court. Just past half, senior, Marcus Paige cuts…
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How to Captivate 90% of a Room in 10 Seconds or Less
Friday 8:00 a.m. — You’re in class. You’re tired, and you’re telling yourself you’ll never go out on a school night ever again (lies). You’re in no mood to learn what the definition of deindividuation is… 12:00 p.m. — Classes are done for the day and your BFF just sent…
READ MOREWhat You Need to Know Today: March 7
Your Early to Rise Daily Briefing Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH To your friend who says: ‘Macs don’t get viruses.’ Thinking about torrenting the latest episode of Billions? Might want to check that your Transmission app is above or below version 2.90. A security research…
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Do You Suffer From “Status Anxiety?”
Depressed you don’t own a new car? It could be Status Anxiety.
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The Truth About Luck and Success
Luck has been in my corner since day one back in 1975. I was extraordinarily lucky to be born in Canada into a lower-middle class family. Lucky enough to have been educated in the years of the first home computer, to have come of age with the first Internet generation, and…
READ MOREHow To Powernap Like a Pro (and Why You Should!)
Have you ever driven in your car and not remembered part of the trip or felt like you suddenly “snapped” into reality? Or sat through another non-exhilarating meeting at work and were asked a question and responded with a blank stare? If you’re among the 33% of Americans who are sleep…
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