The Practice of Structure
Too often we blame failure on personal weakness. People say “I’m weak/undisciplined/disorganized/unambitious” etc. Yet failure is often due to the structures around us, the environments – including the people – that surround us and call forth failure-prone behavior.
These posts and articles are meant to help you identify where your devils lurk by developing new understanding and distinctions essential to creating structures that support you in achieving your goals.
In Deadpool 2, Deadpool argued with a woman who claimed [...]
Everyone tells you to be positive, have positive thoughts, and [...]
The 2021 US Open women’s finals between Emma Raducanu and [...]
A good friend sent me a link to a 90-minute video on becoming super productive that essentially boils down to this: focus only on the things that matter and stop doing the million other things that don’t. That’s not rocket science thankfully, it’s just separating what matters from what doesn’t, and the speaker, Darren Hardy, talks about the things that to him don’t matter—like playing golf,
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There is nothing wrong with failing as long as you [...]
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Most people hate to commit. No, it’s not just guys [...]
The other day my girlfriend asked me what advice would [...]
I've shut the door on many a Jehovah's witness so [...]
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So I'm writing a book, and after explaining what the [...]
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What is it about last minute that focuses the mind? [...]
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Damn! What a great word. Wished I had coined it. [...]
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The other morning,as I looked at my rather round belly, [...]
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From a business perspective most people get the importance of [...]
Distraction, not religion, is the opium of the masses. Distraction [...]
So with my "Getting things done (not)" as the background, [...]
I'll be musing about clutter, distractions and the importance of [...]
How do you generate yourself to do what you know [...]
