Since the creation of the calendar, people have been celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of another. As early back as the Babylonians, this tradition has included greeting each new year with a promise for the twelve months to come. Despite its long...
If it seems like your employees may have one eye on the door, chances are, you’re right. Only a quarter of employees say they are very satisfied in their jobs. The low-levels of engagement across the board present a pricy problem for future businesses. Keeping your...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to gain fame and notoriety for doing something completely ordinary? Well, that’s the life Mark Smith found as The Man in Seat 61. An author, speaker, father, and arguably one of the leading experts on modern train travel in...
One of the greatest struggles in life is the battle for a sense of control. It’s easy to feel like our lives our in the hands of fate. But, that isn’t entirely the case. In the 2011 film 50/50, Joseph Gordon Levitt plays a 27-year-old journalist who is suddenly...
Whether it’s a rookie fighter taking down a heavy weight champion, a Horatio Alger who overcomes poverty, or a dark horse candidate going the distance, we all find ourselves rooting for the underdog. They’re the gritty, nose-grinders who remind us that the impossible...
The holidays sure know how to disrupt your daily routine. Between parties, shopping, end-of-year deadlines and out-of-town visitors, there’s no shortage of wrenches waiting to be thrown into our productivity. Whenever your productivity is threatened, you should have a...
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a holiday classic with more than one good life lesson to offer. It tells the tale of an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge, who learns to soften his heart and adopt a spirit of good charity. But despite his change in character, his...
Everything is insane. The news teaches us things we never wanted to know — and Facebook? Forget about it. We hide behind screens and argue with friends and family about tax hikes and who gets to do what where. We used to not do that. We used to be better, before we...
If you’re reading this blog chances are you have specific goals you want to accomplish. And for those of us who are trying to be our most productive, the exceedingly rare and little-understood practice of “deep work” is an idea worth diving into. In his bestselling...