Your col­lege admis­sion let­ter or essay is one of the most impor­tant doc­u­ments you will ever write. I want to show you how to write your­self to the head of the pack. To do that I need to first explain to you the con­cept of Stump Speeches, which are often used by politi­cians. Regard­less of the […]

The new prob­lems of the world require fresh approaches. They require our inge­nu­ity and our care­ful, cre­ative con­sid­er­a­tion. You and I know this, but still most of us don’t often get mean­ing­fully involved. Why is this? I think there is a col­lec­tive feel­ing that these prob­lems are too big for any of us to make […]

Today’s grad­u­ates face a new breed of chal­lenges as they enter the work­force. They will con­front messier, intractable prob­lems such as cli­mate change, global ter­ror­ism, antibi­otic resis­tant dis­eases and per­sis­tent mar­ket weak­ness. The same tech­nolo­gies that empow­ered them as learn­ers at the same time also mul­ti­plied the poten­tial for global havoc. And this has changed the definition […]

These ‘’Com­mand­ments’’ are actu­ally just life  lessons. They are reminders to myself about my favorite insights into how to keep myself happy and mov­ing for­ward. 1) A clear tar­get I’ve found it’s not enough to try hard, if you’re not work­ing toward a clear out­come. Every­one says this, but I like it because, if I’ve […]

You will likely make a mil­lion dol­lars. The aver­age Amer­i­can earns between $1 mil­lion and $2 mil­lion dol­lars in their life­time. But that’s not what I’m talk­ing about. This arti­cle will tell you how to end up with $1 mil­lion dol­lars in your bank account. (And, as you’re about to see, you’re going to need it.) $1 […]

This is the third time I have sat down to write this post. I keep delet­ing it. I watched a doc­u­men­tary this week in Swe­den and I can’t put it out of my head. It was about a group of moun­tain climbers attempt­ing to sum­mit the sec­ond high­est moun­tain after Ever­est (K2). I’m not going to ruin the […]

Seth (the Mac­Daddy of Mar­ket­ing) Godin has gath­ered ideas from 60 bril­liant peo­ple, each shar­ing their insights into what mat­ters at the begin­ning of 2010. Frankly, if you flip through this slide show and don’t feel at least a tin­gle of inspi­ra­tion, you’re read­ing the wrong blog. I can’t choose which ideas I’d most rec­om­mend. There is […]

Res­o­lu­tions have a bad rap. We are all sophis­ti­cated and smart enough to know we can­not be fooled. Not again. (If you’ve ever pur­chased a 12-month gym mem­ber­ship, you know what I’m talk­ing about.) We’re wise to our own ways.

Just trust me for a moment and I’ll show you that res­o­lu­tions can actu­ally work. This process can be enjoy­able; it can be pain­less and if you fol­low these sim­ple steps you’ll soon be push­ing your credit card over the counter at another fit­ness centre.

I have been a fan of Roger Fed­erer since I first saw him inter­viewed in 2003. I was struck then by his poise and his grace and the way he thinks about the game. And now, at just 27 years old, with 14 Grand Slam titles to his name, he’s still as con­sis­tent as ever. Federer’s […]

Out­liers (by Mal­colm Glad­well) and Tal­ent is Over­rated (by Geoff Colvin) show us that it doesn’t mat­ter what you’re born with; out­stand­ing suc­cess is avail­able to any­one who will fol­low a few sim­ple tips, the ones you’ll find below.