Think about all the conversations you had today. Question: How many of these conversations moved the needle meaningfully? Now, think about all the conversations you had in the last 7 days Question: How many of these conversations moved the needle meaningfully? Lastly, think about all the conversations you had in the last 30 days Question:… Continue reading
Posts Tagged → action
A welcome hurdle
How do you know if someone is truly committed to take action? [ By action I mean doing something that will put something at stake ] Short answer: Wait and watch. If there is no change in status quo in a reasonable time, then something was a on a “wishlist without a deadline to take… Continue reading
Lacking depth and loving it?
I had a long discussion on this topic this weekend with my friend Srikanth Rajan of SmartKapital. Let me get right to the point: What is one of the biggest side-effect of information overload? It has to be that as a society we are moving towards lacking depth and loving every bit of that experience…. Continue reading
Three secrets to effective emails
What is an effective email? One that achieves its purpose. For example, if you wanted the recipient to take some action and after reading that email, the recipient takes that action, then we might classify that email as effective. In the same way, you wanted the recipient to take some action but after reading that… Continue reading
Seven Reasons Why Most Coaching Programs May Not Work For You.
Coaching programs come in various flavors, forms and shapes. More importantly, they come with variety of price tags. I have been fortunate to have had (and continue to have) many coaches over two decades. They have been a large part of helping me reach where I have reached today. It is not like I have… Continue reading
Mini Saga #103 – Message
For most people, lack of knowledge is not the problem, lack of action is. Mini Saga #103 – Message “The time to act is now.” – that’s what the post card said. Frank simply smiled. He got that post card every first day of the month. After watching for six months, Charlie gave up and… Continue reading
Mini Saga #92 – Action
If you have never made a bad decision, chances are you have avoided all the big decisions Mini Saga #92 – Action Life seemed unfair for Keith. I mean, he had got most of his decisions right in the past. No blunders. Yet, he was stuck. One day his friend Matt asked, “Keith, are you… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Jacob Bronowski
Thank you for reading this blog, some other blog and thank you reading anything that you think will help. You might be reading a lot and thinking about what you read and discussing it with your friends. This is all good but without action none of this is good. Bronowski captures this brilliantly in this… Continue reading