96 Shares A few years ago, I stumbled on a letter I wrote to my future self when I was 15. I’ll spare you the bad writing but, it was frustrating to see how far I had strayed from the plan. I hadn’t moved to Australia, I wasn’t an architect. I wasn’t rich and I wasn’t travelling 6 months a year. In the eyes of 15 year old me, I was a failure, yet, I had done many other things. Turns out, John Lennon had it right… Life is what happens to you while... More »
96 Shares This is truly a lifehack. As kids, we learn by repeating what we see and hear around us. We don’t necessarily have to understand the reasons why things are done a certain way, we just do and eventually, it becomes second nature. Then, school begins and things start to have to make sense. We no longer just repeat behaviors; we have to understand why we do the things we do. We minimize the importance of repeating success. But, repeating or imitating success can get you very far. After all, you’ve all heard... More »
118 Shares In my family, people read a lot. While my mother reads fiction (mostly thrillers), my father reads business books (lots of them). Growing up, I was always fascinated by the effort and energy that my father put into underlining anything in books, reports or magazines that could be relevant to his work. It’s hard to imagine how much work that is but, to give a rough estimate, their basement is nothing but bookshelves, boxes and filing cabinets filled with knowledge. While fascinated by the process, I was also very skeptical. Not only... More »
