by John Macdonald | Jun 12, 2016 | Action, Business, Success
One Critical Piece of Advice for Those Coming Out of School or Changing Careers…and Budding Entrepreneurs! In the role that I’ve had as a software team manger for 10 years now, I’ve scoured many resumes of young, hopeful software developers, and have...
by John Macdonald | Jun 8, 2016 | Business, Failure, Mindset, Success
How to Overcome 2 Popular Assumptions About Failure We have spent several posts discussing failure, and that failure is the key to success. Unfortunately, we seem to be programmed the opposite way. We are programmed to do everything we can to AVOID failure because...
by John Macdonald | Jun 7, 2016 | Activity, Business, Productivity
How to be Productively Unproductive to Allow our Mind to Recover Most of us know how physical training works, and how we get physically better. We engage in cycles of physical work plus rest and recovery. We run 5 miles, and then let our bodies rest until tomorrow...
by John Macdonald | Jun 6, 2016 | Business, Productivity, Success, Time Management
Free Your Mind and Make Your Day More Productive Here’s one thing you can do today to help this day and every subsequent day be more productive. One of our fundamental human needs is to feel useful, and here are 2 things we allow ourselves to succumb to feed...
by John Macdonald | Jun 3, 2016 | Mindset, Success
Never use this Deadly Self-Talk Phrase Again! This is a phrase that most of us use all the time. I, myself, have been using it since I was a toddler. It’s such a part of our normal every day conversations that we likely don’t even recognize it....