Posts Tagged with "success"
Go Beta On Your Passion
You have a passion and you definitly want to do something with it later in life? You want to work in a field where you can exploit that passion and convert it into money? Of course! We all want that and we all have the right to do so. But maybe you are not sure [...]
Continue reading...This is Why You Can’t Mess Up
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Have you ever tried to deliberately mess something up? It’s hard to make it look convincing isn’t it? It’s impossible to create an genuine mess when you know how not to mess up. But looking at “how to mess up” isn’t what we are after, we’re always looking for ways not to mess things up [...]
Continue reading...How to Rule The World in Twenty Minutes
Thursday, April 8, 2010
What is the difference between failure and success? Or more accurately, what is the difference between learning and not learning? A very simple fact of life: You have to make mistakes in order to learn. But that isn’t where things start. The first step in learning is actually getting of your behind and getting to [...]
Continue reading...Being useful as a blogger, how can you tell?
Monday, February 8, 2010
I’ve been blogging for almost a year now and last week I tweeted a question, asking how people got their blog to grow. You can read stories all over the net of people having a hugely successful blog within a year. I’m defining success as a lot of comments on each blogpost and hundreds/thousands of [...]
Continue reading...The one Essential skill you need to learn
Thursday, August 20, 2009
In my view there is one single skill that’s at the basis of all other skills and that’s truly essential to personal development. Although it’s very important few people ever master it. I would even goes as far as to say that without this one skill -although mastering it isn’t necessary- it is impossible to [...]
Continue reading...The Quarter-life crisis won’t take me down
Thursday, June 11, 2009
You might have heard of this one. The quarter-life crisis is a phase you go through somewhere in your twenties or as Wiki puts it “a term applied to the period of life immediately following the major changes of adolescence, usually ranging from the early twenties to the early thirties.” It’s a phase where all [...]
Continue reading...Settling for perfection
Thursday, May 7, 2009
I was reading the success stories of several IT people (Bill Gates among others) about how they got where they are and th hard work it took. According to the writer of the stories it all boiled down to investing about ten thousand hours into something before you become really good at something. Ten thousand [...]
Continue reading...The key to successful studying
Thursday, April 30, 2009
I’ve written before on handling all the information that we are bombarded with every day. But what I haven’t told you is what the key is to success in studying. Actually, the success to almost anything we try. The key is caring about what you are doing. If you care enough you won’t let yourself be [...]
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