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Like a company that has to meet their sales targets. That has to show what they bring to the company – day in and day out. Estimate every other team’s value and compare to yours. Are you at the bottom? Are you at the top? How do you keep that position? You sell more, you keep costs down, you show your value. You show your value without ever having to go to a meeting and…

If you cannot define one thing about yourself that you want to change today – to get better at, to grow, to become something more. You are lying to yourself and you are afraid to see that change. Change isn’t easy, it’s hard, it’s frustrating, it’s fraught with failure and anger. And it’s a wall. It’s a wall that we’ve built up in our head that says the same thing over and over again. “You…

Every team needs a goal. Small-town sports team, elite competitive mathletes, developer tiger team. If you don’t have a vision, direction or purpose for where your team is headed – how will you know when you get there? How will you know when you have achieved it? How will you know it’s time to tweak, adjust and grow that vision? If you never have anything to measure against it? And what about everyone on your…

How do you stand out when everyone is doing the same thing? When everyone is using the same hashtags? When everyone has liked the same quotes? When everyone is writing the same articles? When everyone is competing for the same amount of eyeballs? If there is so much content out there, so much to be read and compete with how can you make a difference with your small little crowd? How do you grow the…

Take a second to consider it – What is the change you want to see? Better yet, what is the change you need to see? The change that you demand of yourself. That you NEED to demand of yourself to see your world open up to new opportunities and avenues for growth? Is it giving up old, unfocused activities? Is it switching careers? Is it abandoning the peers that tell you “you’re never going to make…