To be an effective leader, you have to become good at delegating. The problem is that what made you successful doesn’t usually scale. To grow—both personally and organizationally—you have to increasingly focus on those high payoff activities where you add the most value and get rid of everything else. As Dawson Trotman, founder of the […]
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Are You Using These Top 5 Travel Apps?
Because of my public speaking, I spend a lot of time traveling. In just the past four weeks I have been to Charlotte, San Diego, Richmond, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Mobile, Dallas, Tulsa, and Denver. In some ways traveling has never been more stressful—more delays, more canceled flights, and more crowded flights. But technology eases the […]
10 Software Tools for Collaborating with Virtual Assistants
Currently, about fourteen people work with me in some capacity or another. Interestingly, none of them are employees. All of them are virtual assistants. Only a few of them live in my community. Most of them live hundreds of miles away. But that doesn’t keep us from working together effectively. Thanks to some really cool […]
5 Reasons I Switched to Scrivener for All My Writing
As a full-time writer, I take my tools seriously. With a blog, a podcast, speeches, and a new book in the works, I have to maximize my productivity. I have a daily word count goal, and I can’t afford to let the tools get in the way. But, unfortunately, they often do. Until a month […]
7 Reasons I Picked Feedly to Replace Google Reader
On Wednesday, Google surprised denizens of the Internet with the news that they would be discontinuing Google Reader. This was a sad day for people like me who consume most of their blog content with this simple, easy-to-use RSS aggregator. Almost immediately, I was flooded with messages from people wondering what I was going to […]
Are You Investing Your Best Resources in the Wrong People?
5 Ways to Make Sure This Doesn’t Happen to You
As a leader, it is easy to get sucked into high maintenance relationships. When this happens, you and your organization suffer. Here’s how to avoid this common pitfall.
7 Evernote Resources You May Not Know About
When I have a question about Evernote or want to learn about a new feature, I go to one of the following seven resources.
On Enlightenment
Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. … It’s more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.” — Richard Rohr On the Threshold of Transformation (p.
On Fear and the Creative Life
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
” — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Handel’s Messiah, Auto-Tuned
In an effort to make Handel’s “Messiah” more accessible to a younger audience, Grant Woolard recorded this auto-tuned version of the “7th Chorus.” … [youtube id="qZAPI3DEly8"]
Why the Printing Press Will Kill Books
Never were known such excesses of the scholars: it is he cursed inventions of the age that ruin everything: artillery, serpentines, bombards, and above all, printing, that other pestilence from Germany. … The end of the world is certainly at hand!” — Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame , p.
On Praying for the Easy Life
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. … Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.” — Phillips Brooks U.S.