Attitude Adjustment

Finding Happiness

On being socially well adjusted

The Search for Happiness is the Single Greatest Cause of Misery

A Janitor's 10 Lessons in Leadership

Here's to the crazy ones

How to Respond to Critics Regardless of whether you shake the dust off your feet or strike back, your inward response to negativity should be the same. You IGNORE the critics, and do EXACTLY what you had planned. That’s it.

Hiking Long Distances

Harnessing the power of obsession

Put Yourself on Auto-Response Putting yourself on auto-response gives you the daily grit to keep plugging away when you’re tired and wondering if all this struggle is really worth it. It allows you to keep in perspective the reason for your constant pursuit of freedom from unwanted commitments. Most importantly it helps me remember that I’m doing this to serve my own goals (my own purpose) and not someone else’s.

What Hitchhiking Across America Taught Me about Taking Business Risks

Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker. He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. "After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain."