If you’re old enough, you’ve heard the joke already, and if you’re not (or you just haven’t), it’s high time: Man in NYC #1: Excuse me–how do you get to Carnegie Hall? Man in NYC #2: Practice. You %$#@*! Note to young people: in the joke as it was told to me, the second guy–clearly [...]
productivity
Anyone who’s read my newsletter, spent more than 10 minutes in semi-meaningful conversation with me or seen the shame that is my bookshelves knows I have a predilection for the self-help aisle. I fought it for years, in no small part because I saw my mother devour book after best-selling book even as her alcohol [...]
It’s not often I get tagged for memes of a business nature. But spiritual business coach par excellence, Mark Silver, saw through my fluffy exterior and knew I’d have something to add to the best productivity tips in all the land, the rapidly escalating group effort to corral the best of entrepreneurial wisdom by my [...]
I’ve alluded before to Best Year Yet on this here bloggy, but for those of you who missed class and/or are too f**king lazy to click the links or Google it, Best Year Yet is a values-based goal-setting system which I discovered via Heidi Miller’s podcast long ago, and which could just as rightly be [...]
Step One: Make desk out of file cabinets and door. Step Two: Apply magnets to back of everything. Step Three: Party on, nerd! xxx c
“I think my own addiction to narrow distractions while writing is a hard wire left from my days in advertising; if you aren’t coming up with an idea, you check email to see what other crisis looms. I have found this a terrible and difficult habit to break.” , former advertising creative director and current [...]
