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I create a newsletter called GrowthCandy. Each issue shares one idea to help build and spread your work, delivered as a short comic. Fast to read. Easy to apply. Hard to forget!
Christmas is when we give others gifts. New Years is when we give ourselves a gift..
“New Year” means new possibilities. We feel ready to make the most of every day.
“Going backwards” is a metaphor for doing things wrong. Why is that?
People find success in various different ways. For teams doing meaningful work, it seems the secret of big success… is small success, repeated.
Between Christmas and New Year lies a few strange days where nobody really knows what day it is. We feel ready for change in the new year. But are we really?
It’s the day after Christmas. Feeling guilty yet?
Today is all about gifts. What makes a good gift? Care:
They say we overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can do in a decade.
…is that we are then held to a higher standard, including in our spending and investing:
Our relationship with discomfort says a lot about our growth potential:
Entrepreneurs, team members, clients, partners. You might be insecure:
Vegas may be Sin City, but it still has some lessons for teams doing meaningful work:
Automation. Delegation. Abstraction. Don’t overdo it:
Muscle memory requires regular ‘muscle workouts’. Is there an alternative?
Strategies have temperatures. There are two kinds:
This morning while exiting a plane, the speaker announced support for “our selected charity”. So close:
It may be unpopular advice, but there comes a point where we should stop trying new things.
Following yesterday’s notes on over-achievers overdoing things, here are 3 things to stop over-doing:
Over-achievers like to overdo things, for better or worse. Here are 3 things worth over-doing:
You think your work is the best. Best at what?
We think about logos, letterheads, and websites. What about ‘mood’?
Being an entrepreneur has been glamorized.
A day may come where this will be true. These words will still be here. What will you regret?
You should know the answer before your next strenuous team project.
Technology changed again. Are our teams changing with it?
We often think of kids as anti-social screen-zombies who don’t know how to make eye contact with other humans anymore.
We like email. We like Google. We like saturated platforms. Unsaturated platforms? Not so much:
I create a newsletter called GrowthCandy. Each issue shares one idea to help build and spread your work, delivered as a short comic. Fast to read. Easy to apply. Hard to forget!