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(Originally written in 2016, updated in August 2019.)
A reader asked:
"How to stay on top of my big volume of tasks and not feel overwhelmed?"
Think of tasks and information just like physical clutter: how do you solve that problem? Everything important goes into the right place. (What’s not important should be given away, recycled, or eliminated.) Then create a system for reminding you where the important stuff is.
Similarly, here is h…
A reader asked:
"How to stay on top of my big volume of tasks and not feel overwhelmed?"
Think of tasks and information just like physical clutter: how do you solve that problem? Everything important goes into the right place. (What’s not important should be given away, recycled, or eliminated.) Then create a system for reminding you where the important stuff is.
Similarly, here is h…
About the Course: How I Organize my Digital Life and Business Files
I’ll be teaching an online course about how I organize my digital life with Google tools (google drive, docs, spreadsheets, chrome, calendar).
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Here are some background thoughts in preparation.
The way I think about organizing my information is a hierarchy:
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Here are some background thoughts in preparation.
The way I think about organizing my information is a hierarchy:
Framework > Courses/Books > Content > Research
The Framework is my overall philosophy about my work. (I've also taught an online course about How To Create Frameworks.)
Underneath the Framework is my series of courses/b…
The Framework is my overall philosophy about my work. (I've also taught an online course about How To Create Frameworks.)
Underneath the Framework is my series of courses/b…
Can we be authentically ambitious?
A reader asked:
“How can we maintain an authentic approach, yet integrate business practices such as target goals? I have a personal challenge to top my best efforts from the previous quarter, e.g. doing twice as many videos, selling more products, etc. Is it possible to have ambition, while being authentic?”
I love this question. I feel that it aims to integrate spirituality and worldliness, right and left brain, heaven and earth.
Here is my approach to synergize these polarities:
“How can we maintain an authentic approach, yet integrate business practices such as target goals? I have a personal challenge to top my best efforts from the previous quarter, e.g. doing twice as many videos, selling more products, etc. Is it possible to have ambition, while being authentic?”
I love this question. I feel that it aims to integrate spirituality and worldliness, right and left brain, heaven and earth.
Here is my approach to synergize these polarities:
Curios…
The 4 Layers of Authentic Business
(Originally written in January 2018; updated July 2019.)
An authentic business is financially viable and deeply meaningful to you. You make enough money. Yet, the activity itself feels worthwhile, regardless of the money.
I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to help many people in their authentic businesses, and also operating my own successfully for over a decade.
There seems to be 4 important layers of activity for every successful authentic business.
An authentic business is financially viable and deeply meaningful to you. You make enough money. Yet, the activity itself feels worthwhile, regardless of the money.
I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to help many people in their authentic businesses, and also operating my own successfully for over a decade.
There seems to be 4 important layers of activity for every successful authentic business.
Each layer is important, and buil…
Reframing your “money problems” into something more uplifting and actionable…
I used to think: “If I could only just solve my money problem, then I could finally live the life I want.”
This made me get into all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes, which actually made me even poorer, and alienated my friends.
Those painful experiences eventually taught me that the real life I wanted wasn't about money. It was about being of real contribution to other people. In other words, I wanted a right livelihood.
Instead of seeing money as a problem to be solved, let’s see money as an…
This made me get into all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes, which actually made me even poorer, and alienated my friends.
Those painful experiences eventually taught me that the real life I wanted wasn't about money. It was about being of real contribution to other people. In other words, I wanted a right livelihood.
Instead of seeing money as a problem to be solved, let’s see money as an…