In our day to days, its easy to go through a whole work day and evening without stopping to think. In my experience, when you give yourself that time to stop, breathe and reflect, you end up getting so much more of our your day. It can seems counter intuitive that in order to be […]
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. This is the mantra of John Doerr, former Google investor and OKR believer. What I love about this simple statement is how much is loaded into these 6 words. Ideas are in fact easy. Anyone can come up with them and sell them to you as revolutionary. Not many […]
We tend to only remember those who are left standing. We all know the Warren Buffet’s, the Michael Jordan’s or Bill Gates’s of the world for their stories of reaching the top in their fields. The trouble with this human tendency is that we miss a whole lot when we think this way. Survivorship bias, […]
As everyone tells you, when you have a baby, your life will never be the same. And yes, that is 100% true. Your baby and home-life take over your life (and sleep/social life) in a flash. It can be easy to look at what you lost in this exchange but you can also flip this […]
John Steinbeck wrote “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness” and on a day like today where it feels like -20 thing quote rings even more true. What I appreciate about this and take away is that we often take things for granted until tougher times […]
Upon reading James Clear’s Atomic Habits, a book about how changing your actions by 1% each day will have a massive impact, I was left with lots of frameworks and strategies on how to build better habits and stick to them. However, one way of framing things that seems pretty tiny has really stuck with […]
To say everything in life revolved around cognitive dissonance would be a stretch, but in my opinion not too big of a one. We are constantly inundated today with information that either aligns with our core beliefs (think of the way YouTube and Facebook impacted the 2016 election) which helps to even more firmly entrench […]
I recently read the book “The Art of Stillness” by Pico Iyer where he discusses in a short and simple way how we can find stillness in our lives that are seemingly filled with stress, too much technology and overall noise that distracts us from ever truly being still. A part of the last page […]