Imagine you’re looking down a corridor. It’s long, dark and disappears into the distance. Without a guarantee of what will occur, you proceed down it. You’re willing to risk uncertainty and the normal fears that accompany such a feat, for the sake of adventure. As you move down the corridor, new doors open up on […]
New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work. Build Systems Instead.
We’re four days into the New Year. How are you progressing with your New Year’s resolutions? Have you even made any? If not, you’re not alone. According to research by the Statistic Brain Research Institute, only 45% of Americans actually make New Year’s resolutions. And of that 45%, only 8% are successful in achieving their […]
Words Into Works #037 | The Problem Is Not the Problem
Sometime in the mid-twentieth century, as high-rise buildings sprung up around New York, several of the occupants of one multistoried office began complaining about the long elevator waiting times. [1] An engineering firm that specialized in elevator system designs and operations was hired to assess the problem, but their findings were bleak. Due to the […]
What 449 ‘Failures’ Can Teach Us About Success
In the 1960s, Unilever, a company known for manufacturing laundry detergent, had a major problem. The problem wasn’t their manufacturing process (pumping boiling hot chemicals through a nozzle and collecting the powder in a vat); their problem was the nozzles didn’t work properly. They kept clogging up. ‘The nozzles were a damn nuisance,’ said Steve […]
How to Break Bad Habits by Surfing The Urge
We all have bad habits we want to break. We want quit smoking, nail biting, binge eating, spending, etc. If we want to break a bad habit in the long-term, we need to understand how habits work. Here’s what we know: Most habits are triggered by cues. A cue can be a time of day, […]
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