Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
First, ask yourself what’s working: What about your daily work, your daily life, matters to you? Why are you doing it? What part of your life is a source of pride? What impact do you feel you’re having on people, ideas, or things that are important to you? Next, ask yourself what’s neutral: What are you spending your time on that you don’t particul
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The bigger question of what to do with your life is one of these problems with a hard core. There are important problems at the center, which tend to be hard, and less important, easier ones at the edges. So as well as the small, daily adjustments involved in working on a specific problem, you'll occasionally have to make big, lifetime-scale adjust
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So I’m asking, What is the change I’m trying to make? And, Who’s it for and what’s it for? And then I ask things like, What’s the medium that will help it get there? Is it a blog post, or a talk? Or is it a book? What box does it fit in? Once I’ve tried to answer those questions then I jump in. Starting a new project is like jumping into a swimming
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Evolution
Introduction
Most people live their lives on autopilot.
They wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and feel that something isn’t quite right.
Perhaps there is a small sense of uneasiness about their finances, work, looks or family.
Perhaps there is a general unhappiness with how life has turned out — but it can often be difficult to adm... See more
Introduction
Most people live their lives on autopilot.
They wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and feel that something isn’t quite right.
Perhaps there is a small sense of uneasiness about their finances, work, looks or family.
Perhaps there is a general unhappiness with how life has turned out — but it can often be difficult to adm... See more