Yak Shaving thanks to Seth

Seth Godin – Serial Marketer – came up with a brilliant concept called “Yak Shaving.” Here’s my twist. Yak Shaving is the final, unexpected step in a long chain of tasks that you end up doing when you find something that needs to be done. Imagine you...

Quiet Weeks

Someday, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. [‘Once again’ – my addition] But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in...

Remedies

“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we...