Know What's Happening in Personal Growth
Know What's Happening in Personal Growth
CEOs adopt 90‑day action plans to navigate uncertainty
In volatile markets, CEOs are urged to move beyond scenario analysis and adopt a focused 90‑day action plan. The approach centers on a handful of priority initiatives, trigger‑based decisions, and clear ownership, breaking the timeline into 30‑, 60‑ and 90‑day milestones to protect cash flow while pursuing selective growth.
A new study published in Health Psychology finds that Japanese adults who report being unhappy have a significantly higher risk of death over a seven‑year period. The cohort of 3,187 residents of Minami‑Izu was followed from 2016 to 2023, with 277 deaths recorded. After controlling for age, sex, socioeconomic status and baseline health, the unhappy group faced an 85 percent higher mortality risk than those who identified as happy. The authors note the findings align with Western research but caution that a single happiness question and lack of lifestyle data limit causal interpretation.
4 small changes that made me calmer, happier, and more present: 1. Removing all social media from phone 2. Never comparing myself to someone else 3. Not using my phone for the last hour of the day 4. Being completely tapped out of the...
green flag: they know themselves. red flag: they’ve used that knowledge to build an airtight case for why they never have to change.
In this episode of Transform Your Workplace, host Brandon Laws and Zennium HR VP Lacey Partipillo explore how leaders can effectively support employees who are struggling. They emphasize the importance of regular, open‑ended conversations to uncover whether challenges stem from...
You want to change your life, start with cleaning your room. You want to get rich, start with cleaning up your finances. You want to change your body, start with cleaning up your diet. Cleaning = underrated hack.
Exercise does more for your mind than it ever will for your body. It's not just about looking good. It's about getting your mind back. When everything feels out of control, a workout puts you back in control. A fit...
SunLED’s Sunbooster SLS2000 is a $265 USB‑C‑powered infrared lamp that clips onto a laptop and delivers near‑infrared (NIR) light for two to four hours a day. The author tested the device during a New England winter and found it easy...
Writing every morning for 90 minutes will solve a significant number of your current problems
For the last two years, I've been in survival mode. I just didn't call it that. Serve the clients. Pay the bills. Stay productive. Check the boxes. + I wasn't connecting to why I started this business. + I wasn't moving my own...
Chris Arnold, founder of Made Impact, is building a nonprofit platform to capture a million stories of impact from international education and exchange programs. The organization aims to leverage those narratives to secure a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and to...
RIP @chucknorris. In 1990 he founded Chun Kuk Do, which included these principles to live by: 1. I will develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways. 2. I will forget the mistakes of the past and press on...
If you're a startup founder right now and competitors are raising more money, getting more headlines, and investors are questioning your strategy... Good. That means you're doing the job right. Bill Walsh has this quote. "How do you know if...
Graeme Cowan warns that silent disengagement, often labeled “quiet quitting,” is a symptom of widespread burnout. Gallup data shows only 14% of Australian workers feel truly engaged, while Wiley research finds 47% of managers and 36% of employees report severe...
Are you getting in your own way when it comes to your personal freedom and happiness? No matter your answer, remember this: There is strength in your choice. YOU hold the key to a better life 🔑
4 Reasons Why You Feel Anxious For No Reason: 1. Underlying Anxiety Disorders. 2. Chronic Stress & Burnout. 3. Biological/Physical Factors. 4. Subconscious Triggers.
Alex Draper’s DX Learning survived a pandemic‑induced revenue collapse by relying on a leadership team built on performance trust rather than personal loyalty. He outlines five capabilities CEOs must trust—strategic judgment, decision‑making amid uncertainty, ownership, communication, and change leadership—supported by...
To the freelance & creatively self-employed mom who: *tries to be everything for everybody *started it all for the flexibility & creativity that regular “jobs” can’t give *feels pulled in a million different directions *tries to balance work & family without losing yourself *built something...
The old rule: Sell 40 hours of your life for a paycheck. The new rule: Own a "digital fleet" of AI agents that execute your vision 24/7. In a world where intelligence and soon labor are free, your judgment is the...
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Roopa Unnikrishnan says writing fiction sharpened her strategic skills. The research rigor, world‑building, and scenario‑planning required for a novel translate into deeper stakeholder mapping, pattern recognition and storytelling in boardrooms. She argues that this human‑centric...
Leslie Venetz Of The Sales-Led GTM Agency On The Hidden Superpower of Every Great Leader —… by ChayaWeiner https://medium.com/authority-magazine/leslie-venetz-of-the-sales-led-gtm-agency-on-the-hidden-superpower-of-every-great-leader-70cacab2c77f?source=social.threads
Uncomfortable truth: if you wait to have 100% of the information before acting, you’ll always lose to someone who acts at 60%
The article argues that trust is the "secret sauce" for high‑performing health‑care teams, linking neuroscience to better collaboration, reduced burnout, and superior patient care. It presents Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei’s three‑pillar framework—authenticity, logic, and empathy—as practical levers for...
Every founder says they’re too busy. Reality check: 80% of what you’re doing doesn’t matter. Automate it or stop doing it. Your future self will thank you.
Tidy 10. At our office, once a day at 3 pm. Employees need to spend 10 minutes cleaning their workspace. If their space is clean, pick something else. We get so much done. I LOVE IT. Stole it from Rakuten company manual. Some...
A new study published in Personality & Individual Differences introduces the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity (CBSR) scale, measuring how impressed workers are by jargon‑laden corporate language. Across four experiments with 1,018 North American professionals, higher CBSR scores were linked to lower...
Nir Eyal’s *Indistractable* reframes distraction as an escape from internal discomfort rather than a technology problem. The book presents a research‑backed four‑step model—recognizing internal triggers, distinguishing traction from distraction, mastering discomfort, and scheduling traction time. By naming feelings and deliberately...
There are 4 types of workers in the AI era. Most people don't realize which one they are. The two axes that matter now: judgment and AI fluency. Turbo Brains — high on both. These are the people 10x-ing their output while...
After a brilliant day yesterday with my business coaches, I realised I am a chronic over-thinker. So why didn’t I think of that before?!
In this episode, Nir Eyal challenges common notions of motivation, arguing that it’s driven by the desire to escape discomfort rather than the pursuit of rewards. He explains why visualizing only desired outcomes can backfire, introducing the concept of mental...
I’m neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research. Here are 12 things people call laziness that are often just nervous system overload: (save this post for bad days)
Wanting to self isolate is the first sign you're waking up. The desire to disconnect from a dysfunctional world is the highest form of emotional intelligence.
In this Spring Equinox Inner Sun meditation, the host guides listeners through a 20‑25 minute visualization that aligns personal intentions with the heightened planetary energy of March 20, 2026, including Mercury going direct. The practice emphasizes vivification—infusing visions, resolutions, and...
My first boss used to take all of his calls loudly in our bullpen. It drove me nuts. Now I'm pretty sure it was the best coaching I could've gotten at 23 years old for how to have multi-million dollar conversations...
“If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.” – Ivan Nuru #mindfulness #stressmanagement https://t.co/8UEEPcMqGt
My goal on Twitter is to help you build systems that run without you. That way, sometime in the future, your systems will inspire me to build better ones. That's a win-win.
No one is coming to save you And there is no speed limit The only mindset you need to build in 2026
Tom Brady reminds the future greats that adversity will shape who they are, and how they respond to difficulties can turn the worst moments to the best memories https://t.co/WFk3B3TZQZ
Ask yourself regularly, “What can I do to contribute to my profession, to my organization, and my professional association?” and “How can I be professionally accountable?” If you approach your career from this perspective, you will find that you get...
The #Buddha described an undistracted mind as a beautiful state of calm, which occurs when the mind is steady, composed, unifed and concentrated. This is Samadhi. #mindfulness https://t.co/Q46kKIndsa
Don't blame the market for being bad. Blame yourself for participating in a bad market. Accountability is an important step towards profitability.
The ideal school would teach health, wealth and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas—just learning. Actually, you are already here. Careful who you...
Stay f*cking delusional. Lock in so hard that other people think you’ve lost it. Remember, it’s only delusional until it works.
The difference between how good many sellers *think* they are vs. how good they actually are never ceases to amaze me. Arrogance caps your career and income.
Founders: For 1 week, keep a notebook by your desk with two columns: -things I love -things I don't like When you feel really happy/excited about something, jot it in the first column. When you feel dread or frustration, second column. Regardless of...
"I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better." (Henry David Thoreau was wrong, as it turns out)
It’s incredibly valuable to spend 20 hours really trying something, only to discover it doesn’t work. You would have spent far longer even just thinking about that wrong thing, to say nothing of the opportunity cost of not working on the...
There is a crucial but rarely mentioned relationship between how you use your visual system and how you perceive goals as difficult or easy. Even impacts physiology and goal attainment. Actionable.
VC is a constant game of context switching. A typical day as a VC looks like: Founder call>investor call>deal diligence>internal task>content creation>portco support>sourcing Blocking time to complete tasks is critical. For me, I ONLY schedule calls Tu-Th, Mo&Fri I’m heads down
22 Qualities That Make a Great Leader - https://t.co/sVou3rg5wr - https://t.co/VUA6vOtz0B by Adam and Jordan Bornstein
Millions of people are stuck in the gap between: Who they were And who they need to become The jump terrifies them... So they stay in the gap Forever "becoming" But Never arriving
