Book Review: How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christensen
This book gave me permission to pursue my own definition of success. Thinking about how we will measure success later in life can change your life today.
Reinvention
Feeling Stuck? Do This Right Now!
Sometimes we get really stuck and start going in circles with little or no progress. Getting unstuck and back on track might be easier than you think.
How a Tech Exec Reinvented Himself into a Restaurateur
Reinvention requires we learn new skills in new domains. Often that means taking several steps back in order to leap forward into mastering new skills. It’s easier said than done, because pride, ego, and limiting beliefs can get in our way.
Pivoting Back to My Essential Core
Inspired by my newest role models, I found myself following them too strictly. In the process, I strayed from my core and now I’m pivoting back into alignment with my strengths and interests.
How I Overcame The Guilt of Leaving My Old Career
Before my first reinvention, I feared giving up on my career progress, experiences, and education. However, it turns out the fear of not trying scared me even more. “What if” is more painful than “what have I done.”
How a $200K Debt Empowered Me to Learn for Fun
Going to university was very expensive. Knowing I would have to pay back the huge loans drove and empowered me to pursue any and all learning interests. Sometimes against the advice of university counselors and mentors.
How I Built a Nice Collection of Aging Problems
When it comes to email, I designed a system to collect and put problems on hold without solving them. In other areas of life, I address problems right away, by design. Now, I’m looking for other ways I can design for addressing problems right away, rather than saving them for later.
Where My New Ideas Come From
I started writing so that I could document and publish old ideas, however, what I discovered was that writing is actually how I develop new and better ideas. Writing is more about surfacing new ideas than it is about documenting old ones.
What Success Cannot Teach Us
A line from Neil Gaiman’s MasterClass helped me realize that only in failure can we learn what success fails to teach us. The perspective from reaching the finish line of a failed race is quite different and valuable to learning and growing.
How to Attract the Opportunities You Want
Recently, I realized that doing what I love consistently and regularly over a long period of time has attracted some of the most important opportunities and successes of my life. In this article, I share how exactly that happened.