Despite my realization yesterday that the same messages and patterns keep repeating, it still fascinates me when I see them pop up. This morning, I was reading Effortless, and McKeown writes, “Our brain is wired to resist what it perceives as hard and welcome what it...

Embracing Effortlessness

The thread I seem to be following today is around the idea that we can make the things we do feel effortless by getting into a state of flow (while I’m not currently reading it, the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly is an absolute must-read!)....

Wow, today I feel very called out (but not in a bad way). I started reading Greg McKeown’s book Effortless. I previously read his book Essentialism and loved it (I even follow him on LinkedIn for his weekly insights). I’m not even 15 pages into this book, and he describes...

Kahneman talks about two selves in how we experience the world—the experiencing self (essentially the “being present” self) and the remembering self (essentially the “living in the past” self). 

Damien and I just had a most interesting philosophical conversation about knowledge. 

We talked about something random, and he said (jokingly), “Everybody knows that.” 

It got me thinking: is there any universal knowledge that “everybody” actually knows?

After much thought...

I am always looking for new methods to improve my time management. It is almost to a level of fascination to me when I find a new tip or trick that saves me time—even if it is just a small amount. So when I found Dave Crenshaw’s training videos on LinkedIn, I was hooked!

We are what we consume. We are a construct of the five people closest to us. This seems to be a thread that keeps coming up repeatedly in the books I am reading, the pieces of training I am watching, and the social media I have been consuming.

I finished The Tipping Point today. In the end, Gladwell talks about the “fax effect” and how it has spilled over into much of our digital world today with email, commercials, magazine ads, social media ads, etc. There is power in a large network, but if everyone sees what...

I finished Influence the other day and have a lot of insights about it, which I am still digesting. However, today, I read something very powerful in The Tipping Point.

For the longest time, I thought I had a black thumb and even had the nickname of “Cactcus Killer”. Many years ago, a friend gave me a small planter with three cacti. I wasn’t really sure what to do with it, so I put it in a window in our bathroom that had a shade that was...