The stationary industry is doing great this season. Premium price colourful paper with bits of advice about how to run your life are fashionable “must-have” desk accessories, especially in today’s world of self-development and self-help books. With the advent of Christmas and the New Year, with everyone deciding what they want to do in the next year, planners, to do’s […]
We live in a world of start-ups, solopreneurs and digital nomads. Never before have people had the chance to do work they love, work that matters, be true to themselves and provide an income at the same time. We live by our own rules, make more money and in a way that’s fulfilling, challenging and exciting, and we get to […]
We build stories to support the decisions we take. Quite often, we back these stories up with arguments what we call ‘common knowledge’, and which are actually a set of assumptions and myths taken as true merely due to the amount of people supporting them. Adam Grant invites these assumptions onto the stage, one by one, questions their validity and then […]
Never before are so many people opening their own business, to sell their products and services as they are nowadays. This is a wonderful thing, because 1) more people choose to live by their own rules, becoming happier doing work they are passionate about and 2) the market is so competitive that me and you, the customers, can choose to buy […]
When one needs to make decisions, or more precisely decide between A & B, they usually have to choose between what their gut instinct tells them to do and the other, seemingly more sensible solution. The sensible solution revolves around the “should’s”, “must’s”, “have to’s”, “expected of me to…” It’s a compromise between what you truly want and what you […]
Do you know what the major difference is between the book The Secret and the movie The Secret? The book tells you that in order to achieve anything you want to achieve, you need to take massive action! Surprisingly perhaps, this is the bit that didn’t make it on the screen, although it is the most common sense, obvious and […]
