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Mindfulness and Smartphones

Via Big Think: What’s the Latest Development? Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close off your posture to the world also close your attention, weakening your ability to engage the world around you. In an experiment, “researchers paid 75 participants to use one of a range of devices–iPod Touch […]

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.” -Peter Benchley

Pick three in the new year

If I could suggest just one thing you could do that would transform how 2014 goes for you, it would be this: Select three colleagues, bosses, investors, employees, co-conspirators or family members that have an influence over how you do your work. Choose people who care about you and what you produce. Identify three books […]

How to Find your Passion – It’s Not Where You Think!

A piece of advice we often hear when it comes to being successful is to “follow our passion.”  But before you can follow your passion, you have to find it. So where do you look for it? You may have sought out clues to your passion in things like personality inventories, self-help books or career […]