Small inspirational stories help you to build a dream (I cleaned it out of my drawer from AdvantEdge, Nightingale-Conant, 2004):
When I was researching the history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge as a major illustration for the ideas of success and motivation, I became engrossed with the story of how the first bridge was [...]
As usual, I find the most remarkable insights following the trails that others leave for me. When I received the feed from Michael Bungay Stanier of Find Your Great Work regarding Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Nonconformity, I figured it would be an interesting path to follow (Michael rarely steers me wrong).
In Chris’s treatise [...]
Henry David Thoreau had me question my work this morning. I am reading Walden. To write this book, he left behind modern conveniences and found life. In his chapter on Economy, he wrote
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming [...]
I often ask clients to create an ideal week. What would be perfect for them to be spending their time doing? The reply is often, does it have to include work?
So often we hear that work is just something that someone fills eight hours with. Timothy Ferriss wrote a book called The Four Hour Work [...]
