Category: Advice

The Bible is not often quoted on this site, but read this verse from Matthew 7:3

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone else’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”

Everyone has one big problem that everyone just wishes they would fix:

• Football has too much time between plays
• AT&T has a slow network
• Ross has lines that are too long
• Safeway’s produce is usually of a poor quality

What is the one big problem that you have that everyone points out?… read more “Fix the Biggest Plank in Your Eye”

I have struggled with finding good ways to teach myself hard concepts.  By hard concepts, I mean skills that take multiple weeks or months or even years to become proficient at.  For example, C# programming, playing the guitar, sex, and flag football.

So what are the 4 steps to becoming a GRANDMASTER of any new hard concept?… read more “How to Learn Hard Concepts”

Many times I have made the mistake of calling someone stupid who really was not dumb, they were just uninformed.  I think that most people either just have the wrong dataset or the wrong worldview.

For instance, most Americans think that suicide bombers are idiots. I would disagree… if you were in their position you may make the same decisions. … read more “Stupid or Uninformed?”

Playing Super Mario Bros as a kid, you would occasionally run into a mushroom which made Mario suddenly get bigger, stronger & faster and gave him the ability to run into a bad guy and still live.

How can you get a real life mushroom each day?

Take naps.

Countless studies have shown napping boosts memory, focus, athletic ability and just about everything else that is important to us as human beings. … read more “Napping = Human PowerUp?”

Want to know how to make your business better?

Start tracking your successes.

What are your business goals?

• Number of sales?
• Revenue?
• Calls?
• Prospect meetings?

Once you determine what your business goal is, then start tracking it.  Try to beat your totals from the previous month, or the previous quarter.

Self-evaluate once a year?

Only come up with plans of action annually?

If you fail, wait till next year?

The concept of New Years resolutions sounds nice, but it is actually destructive to growing as a person. Here’s my advice for improving your life:

• Constantly evaluate and re-evaluate yourself. What are you doing right? Wrong? Where can you improve?

… read more “Why New Years Resolutions SUCK”

Delegating is a superpower you don’t know you have.

When you delegate one task to a subordinate, the rest of your job becomes easier.  When you delegate all of the tasks that you can, it frees up much more time for you to be creative and to grow your business in new ways instead of just doing the same rote tasks over and over.… read more “Delegate Everything”

When you are afraid or don’t understand.

People far too often oppose a new idea merely because it brings change (fear) or they don’t understand it.

Multitasking steals your focus and energy.  It makes you feel like you are getting more done, but in reality you are just making yourself busy.

For instance, try doing two simple things at once:

1. Have a conversation about a new topic with a friend on the phone
2. Do 100 simple addition/subtraction problems at the same time

I tested this out and found that not only did my friend think I was temporarily retarded, but I did poorly on the math problems. … read more “Stop Multitasking”