I've always had this love-hate relationship with self-improvement. On the one hand, I can't get enough of it. I love reading about it; talking about it; and even occasionally actually acting upon the new things I learn about. On the other hand, self-improvement has always felt corny and overhyped; and oftentimes self-improvement "gurus" simply promise... Continue Reading →
Delusion of Success
I was just mulling over how I might be more "successful" the other day when I realised that that thought held one very fundamental problem: what did "success" mean to me? Lately, I've been going around sites like Mininova and The Pirate Bay looking for torrents on "success" and "self-improvement". I like the success genre,... Continue Reading →
Mixing Disciplines
I'm currently reading a book on innovation, called The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson. What I have read thus far has intrigued me and got me thinking like no book has for a long time. The basic premise of the book is that innovation often occurs at what Johannson calls the "Intersection". He defines the... Continue Reading →
If You Can't Beat Them…
If you can't beat them, go around them. I'd like to share another great passage from Jim Collin's Good to Great, with regard to the difference between being competent at something, and being the best in the world in something: [C]onsider the young person who gets straight A's in high school calculus and scores high... Continue Reading →
If You Can’t Beat Them…
If you can't beat them, go around them. I'd like to share another great passage from Jim Collin's Good to Great, with regard to the difference between being competent at something, and being the best in the world in something: [C]onsider the young person who gets straight A's in high school calculus and scores high... Continue Reading →
The Secret: The Law of Attraction
There is a movie called "The Secret", and it's about the secret of getting the things you want. A book of the same name, based on the movie, was once featured on Oprah, and overall this idea, "the secret", is probably one of the most marketed ideas in recent history. As much as I liked... Continue Reading →
Beyond Oneself
Taken from the book Good to Great, by Jim Collins: David Maxwell, like Darwin Smith (ex-CEO Kimberly-Clark) and Colman Mockler (ex-CEO Gillette), exemplified a key trait of Level 5 leaders: ambition first and foremost for the company and concern for its success rather than for one's own riches and personal renown. Level 5 leaders want... Continue Reading →
The Change Log
I'm currently writing a new content management system (CMS) that I will be replacing my current WordPress installation with. I had written one before, way back in 2003, and was actually pretty happy with it. But as WordPress gained in popularity, I didn't want to get left behind, so I jumped onto the WordPress bandwagon... Continue Reading →
The Art of Happiness
Love thy neighbour as thyself, was a thought he repeated to himself several times, hoping to contain envious feelings he was losing control over. Why, he thought, does he always get the good things in life? What has he done to deserve it? The object of envy, he knew, did deserve his success. But it's... Continue Reading →
Finding Faults
One of the most important things I've ever learned about life is that we should look for faults within ourselves. I mean really look for faults. In that way, we will know what we can improve on; what to change. If we find that we procrastinate too much, we should learn to be more action-oriented.... Continue Reading →
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