by John Macdonald | Jun 23, 2016 | Mindset, Productivity, Success
One Way to Fight the Resistance: Are You a Producer or Consumer? Do you know who won the latest “Reality TV Show XYZ”? Do you find yourself agreeing with the car commercial that insists that “you work hard, you deserve this car” (have you ever... 
by John Macdonald | Jun 21, 2016 | Action, Mindset, Success
How to Realistically Turn Actions into Habits How long does it really take? What must I do to turn my useful, productive actions into actual habits? The Slight Edge and The Compound Effect teach us that its the small, easy to do (but easy not to do) actions that we... 
by John Macdonald | Jun 14, 2016 | Leadership, Success
Leadership Lessons from the Baseball Diamond: Don’t Blame Others Baseball provides an outstanding metaphor for life, and many lessons in success and leadership can be found on the baseball diamond. Regardless of whether the game and its players are kids or... 
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 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...