Nobody likes a critic. The colleague who stomps on your suggestions in the meeting. The reviewer who says your work is terrible. The high-school teacher who said you’d never make it. The standard advice is to just ignore your critics. March forward bravely and prove them wrong. Critics are envious, bitter or evil. I see […]

Over the past week, I’ve been writing lessons in anticipation of a new session of my popular course, Make it Happen! In case you missed those lessons, here are some links to get caught up: Lesson 1: Why it’s so hard to stick to your goals (and how to make it easy)Lesson 2: The simple […]

This week, I’ve been writing lessons on closing the gap between your actions and intentions and making smarter decisions. This is all in preparation for the new session of my course, Make it Happen! In case you missed those lessons, you can read them again here: Lesson 1: Why it’s so hard to stick to […]

Recently, I shared the first lesson in a multi-part series on setting goals you’ll actually achieve. In case you missed it, you can read that lesson here: Lesson 1: Why it’s so hard to stick to your goals (and how to make it easy) In this lesson, I’d like to share an interesting algorithm, drawn […]