When I went to New York, I heard Seth Godin refer to Tom Peters and the late Zig Ziglar as his mentors. When I went to Geneva, I heard Shaper after Shaper talk about their mentors who have helped them avoid certain failure, learn from mistakes, and accelerate towards their goals. In the online world, […]
Customers, Work, and Community (What I Learned from #WDS2014)
I’m back in the saddle after another trip to Portland for World Domination Summit (WDS), put on by Chris Guillebeau and company. 2014 was my third year attending the (un)conference, and I took away lessons that you can just as easily apply in your own work and life. With every passing year, I’ve found that […]
The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
The big idea Tim Ferriss is the epitome of what it means to live an intriguing life. He is a serial entrepreneur that created a business and life that led him to working 80 hour weeks and being miserable by his own doing. In The Four-Hour Work Week, Ferriss takes his personal experience in cutting […]
TEDx UGA 2014
Here’s the transcript of the talk: Thank God It’s Friday. TGIF, that’s a motto we can all get behind. In fact, I bet many of you in this room woke up today, hit the alarm, and you said, “Yessss, the weekend is here and I have a half day of work. Things are going right […]
Mastermind Groups: How to Surround Yourself with Remarkable People
The Eagle and Child pub is similar to many other pubs in Oxford. It’s dimly lit, serves beer at room temperature, and cider is an easy find. They have fish and chips along with other pub food. By all accounts, it’s just another common place in one of the greatest college towns in the world. […]
How to Overcome Fear to Get What You Want
I am scared. I am scared of failing. I am scared of dying. I am scared of losing friends. I am scared of ridicule. I am scared of throwing up. I am scared of commitment. I am scared of snakes. I am scared of rejection. I am scared of being called a fraud. I am […]
What Top Performers Do Differently in Their First 10 Years at Work
An afternoon spent with six impressive entrepreneurs showed me one thing: the nature of the world economy and careers has changed forever I had the chance to spend an afternoon/evening at Coca-Cola’s headquarters here in Atlanta during their 2013-2014 annual business strategy and planning meetings with Coke’s entire senior executive team and six other peers […]
Mindset: Why Your State of Mind is Everything for Conducting a Successful Career Search
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.” —Ernest Shackleton Ernest Shackleton is most well known for his Antarctic adventures from 1901-1922. During those years, there was an intense race to be the first human to reach […]
How to Create a Personal Brand to Help You Reach Your Career Goals
In 2007, a relatively unknown entrepreneur and member of the Princeton graduating class of 2000 published a book. That book would eventually vault him into the spotlight in more countries around the world than most of us will ever visit. Since then, he has become the poster child for entrepreneurship, lifestyle design, productivity, learning, and […]