There’s a saying that action is all that matters. That “implementation” is everything. And in a self-development and consumption-heavy culture, maybe there’s a lot of truth in that. But maybe it’s not learning vs. implementing… Maybe it’s learning includes implementing. We can either be entertained by watching things on a screen, or, we can engage...

When I was 14, I lived on a boat with my dad. We ran aground once in New Caledonia. No major damage, but still, startling at the time. Was it an issue with how we sailed? Nope – we just didn’t pay attention to what we were doing at the time. We let go of...

In school, it was 9-3pm. In university, it was 25 “contact hours” per week. In all of my “jobs,” it’s been some variation of 8-5-ish. In 2021, and especially in the world of small business, any structure, consistency, or calibration, has to come from within. If we can’t gently commit to some sort of practice...

IKEA furniture is known for it’s banal instructions. Thin paper, predictable images, known outcome… Nothing to get worked up about. But, it does get the job done. In goal setting, we often focus on the aspirational part of a goal – big hairy audacious goals, “moonshot” goals, etc And fair enough. If we’re going to...

If you tally up the time in a day spent: – Worrying if something will work – Worring what someone will think – Worrying what might happen And allocated just 20% of that time into creating something in the direction of your goals, what could happen? Even if “worry” itself isn’t the actual problem, the...

Websites were hosted. Videos were videod. And documents got google docc’d… It’s been a big couple of weeks with work. But – the most recent development was the switch to French press in the morning. In one movement, I found I could go from an Aeropress (single cup capabilities) to the big French press (6...

One acronym I find pretty weird is COB. “Close of business.” Like it’s awkward cousin, “EOD” (end of day), this is one of those business lingo nuggets that just seems to keep on living. What makes it even more difficult is “apparently” a whole bunch of these are more or less interchangeable: EOB, EOD, EOP,...

We were sitting at a restaurant the other day. A bit of a treat occasion. I looked around the quiet room, and could see how much everyone was enjoying themselves, deep in conversation, laughing. And when the waitstaff came to our table they were patient, kind and accomodating, with a smile. In each interaction, they...