“‘Live within your means” in money and time.  Many people are in time debt that they would never accept on their balance sheet.”  In his weekly thought-provoking 1-minute read newsletter, Greg McKeown dropped this knowledge bomb that so many business owners need to hear.

“Appreciate the art of thoughtful disagreement.”  This is one of Ray Dalio’s Principles, and wow, how that landed for me this week.

Hustle culture is killing us, and we have to start unsubscribing from this toxic behavior. So many get wrapped up in being busy for busyness's sake and lose sight of the true goal - ultimately leading to burnout and frustration. And so much of what I have been reading this...

Emotional Intelligence is usually on the list of best life skills (or cheat codes or whatever they are called this week).

A few weeks back, when reading Nudge, I came across the concept they introduced about invisible energy.  

Now that I read that back, it could mean how to screw around and not write a prompt.  Oh well, can’t go back.

A friend and mentor recently died, after what his daughter described as a long illness. I had no idea he was sick.  Reading the post from his daughter got me thinking - why do we retreat behind closed curtains and doors, withdraw from society, and go dark when we become ill?

We have been having an interesting debate over the two weeks or so since I saw what I initially thought was a simple post in a Facebook networking group. The post asked the group about their thoughts on the thumbs-up emoji (👍) and if they felt it to be okay in business...

In some random conversation we had yesterday, the topic of reading literacy levels in this country came up. Current stats show that about 20% of adults are illiterate, and about 55% read below a 6th-grade level. Damien and I have discussed the marketing messages we put out...

What used to be an occasional conversation between Damien and me is an almost daily one now (I have even touched upon it in three different posts: Book Brew 33, Book Brew 66, Book Brew 77.) There appears to be a growing issue with people not acknowledging others - whether...