The Horizon Problem

Posted by on Feb 28, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I am not a huge fan of goal setting as it is traditionally taught.  I will outline how I set and achieve goals (I call them objectives) in another post but I want to start by sharing with you some ideas on how to view your life when you don’t seem to be getting anywhere. Most of us are striving for something greater.  In this blog, we talk about more life.  Bigger, Better, Faster, More,...

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Creativity is Overrated (or, if you want to be really successful, stop being creative)

Posted by on Feb 25, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

Creativity is overrated.   At least creativity for its own sake.  And it really pains me to say this as I am a very creative person. But the reality is, you can be extremely successful if you are not creative.  In fact, I would venture to say you have a chance of being even more successful than those that are creative. Let me explain.  As a creative person, I love to think up new ideas.  But...

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Embrace Failure to Succeed at Innovation (and life).

Posted by on Feb 22, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I received an email from a client company I work with from time to time as an “ideation consultant”.  I think that means I come up with ideas based on needs and wishes of their clients.  And since I love coming up with ideas, I would gladly do it for free but they insist on paying me anyhow. So they asked me a question about what they could do to eliminate failure in their...

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Managing Too Much…

Posted by on Feb 21, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I just had an interesting experience where I learned a valuable lesson.   It was about managing too much. If you think about it, that sentence has at least too meanings.  One is that you have too much going on in your life and you are trying hard to manage it all.  You simply have too much to manage. But a second way to look at that sentence is that you are managing something in your life too...

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Are there any Rusty Nails in Your Life?

Posted by on Feb 20, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

“A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.” Sir Walter Scott We spend a lot of time in our lives thinking about things to add to it.  More things to be, do and have.   Goals to achieve, things to acquire, skills to learn etc. But I think it is equally important to get rid of stuff in our lives.  Things (in the broadest way this...

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