Your Wobble Recovery Plan
To “wobble” is to start to lose your balance. When it happens, you make a quick adjustment and move on. How you make the adjustment depends on how you are moving. If you’re walking down the stairs, you grab the railing or the wall. If you’re on a bike, you turn...
How I Solved My Writing Problems
I started this newsletter in 2004, and it has come out erratically ever since. That’s because in the past, I have often come up with a “great topic” for an article and spent hours working on it before realizing it needed to be reconceived. By the time that happened, I...
Money, Safety, and Ease — Oh My!
As many of you know, I have reconceptualized Marshall Rosenberg’s idea of “universal needs” as "deep rational values.” If you are unfamiliar with either of these concepts, I recommend you read my FAQ on the topic, since this article presupposes some familiarity with...
Eat That Frog!
Many years ago, I read Brian Tracy’s book, Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time. I was surprised to see that I have never mentioned the book or the tactic in my published articles. I have certainly recommended that...
Dealing with Chronic Fatigue
Objectivism argues for mind-body harmony. I learned the importance of this principle by overcoming several chronic health problems over the years, problems that were caused by my approach to work and overworking. I developed tendonitis in both forearms from typing...
The Thinker Identity (Part 4)
I opened this series by asserting that the Thinker needs to develop certain characteristic ways of thinking: Decisive Essentialized Principled Creative Value-Oriented Parts 1–3 explained what I meant by these and discussed how these characteristics are the product of...
The Thinker Identity (Part 3)
In my article two weeks ago, I introduced the idea of the “Thinker Identity,” and I offered that a thinker develops five characteristic ways of thinking: Decisive Essentialized Principled Creative Value-Oriented Here’s a new brief summary of my conclusions from...
The Thinker Identity (Part 2)
Last week, I introduced the idea of the “Thinker Identity,” and I offered that a thinker develops five characteristic ways of thinking: Decisive Essentialized Principled Creative Value-Oriented I chewed decisiveness quite thoroughly, and thought I had finished with...
The Thinker Identity (Part 1)
My business coach encourages us to develop a new identity in order to produce at a higher level — to create more value for more people and therefore earn more money. Her stories about this are a dramatic concretization of the idea that “man is a being of self-made...
Catching Emotionalism
Emotions are designed to draw your attention and control action — to make that action feel urgent and inevitable. Once you learn to manage your emotions, you can harness this capacity to motivate sustained action toward your most important long-range goals. And you...
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