Stop feeding your worries

Time isn’t your scarcest resource. Attention is. You waste mental energy on things that don’t exist yet. Problems that might happen. Conversations that may never come. Outcomes beyond your control. Three questions end this waste: Is this thought true? If...

But it didn’t happen

Those discussions of contention arise when you discover something didn’t happen as it should have. As you thought it should have. It didn’t happen. That will not change. Why lament what may have been? That energy is futile and disruptive. We gather in...

Isolate to accelerate

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt Scientists isolate variables to find truth. They remove noise to see...

Win the room

“What’s our strategy again?” I asked this question to three different teams last week—three different companies, three different industries. The responses were similar: awkward silence, vague generalities, and conflicting answers. In one...

Why now

We’re surrounded by people who want results. But wanting isn’t the same as achieving. Achievement isn’t magic. It follows predictable patterns that research consistently confirms. Angela Duckworth’s work on “grit” shows that...