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You’ll hear this from coaches a lot. “What’s our break-out?” “How do we get the – (whatever sport it is we’re playing) – out of our zone and into theirs?” The same goes for your career. Do you have a break-out strategy for taking that next step in your career? Do you know where you want to go next? Do you know who you need help from? Do you know what you need to get…

Great – start with the end goal in mind. It’s not going to come to you on a silver platter. Forget all the hype, all the articles that are promoting someone else over you, all the followers you don’t have and guest posts you are missing out on. If you want it, go work for it, go make it happen. That’s all. (foot note: this post first started out as “Great – Go work for…

I wish I had better running endurance today. I wish I could bench my own weight today. I wish I had a better wrist shot today. I wish I had better grammar today. But I don’t (and many of us don’t either), where we want to be today we are not and that frustrates all of us to no end. Even if we have put in months and months of effort already. This isn’t about…

We don’t share the journey as much as we should. We want to figure out the 40%, the 60%, the 90% and then let people in to see how we are doing. Except we aren’t really asking for the input at that point. We’re asking them for acceptance. It’s hard to share your work when what’s in your head is much better than what’s on the screen – whether it be code, writing, artistry, the…

I posted a blog a few months ago about whether I needed two monitors or one and whether I could make do. I’ve now tried going single monitor on my main desktop for 2 months. I was horribly, horribly wrong – two monitors is the only way to go.