Thoughts Brewing Blog

Ah cover letters.  I never liked writing them when I was applying for jobs.  I never liked reading them when I was making a hiring decision.  To be fair, I didn’t read most of them…

I feel a bit behind the times with this, but the information is still valuable to me, even if it is decades old. I recently read about Covey’s concept of a Time Management Matrix, in which tasks/goals are placed into four quadrants based on importance and urgency (see...

Many business professionals say that “accounting is the language of business.”  I don’t know if that is true.  But it kinda seems to be so I will go with it.

As we continue this Quote Vault series, we explore the theme of challenges and growth. 

Explaining stoicism is WAY outside the scope of this post.  You can use ChatGPT to tell you all about it, though.  So this is kind of two tips in one.

Supercharge Your Thinking 

I believe I have already mentioned this, but Brian Tracy’s Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life is full of amazing tidbits of advice.  One of the things he talks about in Chapter 1o: Supercharge Your Thinking is becoming an inverse paranoid - “A...

Project management is useful to, well, manage your projects.  They did a good job when naming it…

Similar to the Word Treasure series I wrote a few weeks ago, in which I shared my list of unknown (to me) words that I come across while reading, I am going to share a short series of quotes that I have kept track of over the years. These are quotes that I have found to be...

If done right, team-building events can boost morale and collaboration among team members.  

The Timeless Wisdom of Brian Tracy

I will start by saying that I am well aware that the book Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by Brian Tracy is old. However, it is amazing, and everyone should read it. And I mean, go out and find a copy of it now and read it.