Balance

Live like there’s no tomorrow, but plan like you’ll live forever.

That’s the philosophy that the CEO of Mid-Day Squares outlined in a podcast interview recently.

These are two extremes.

Harder is better

Yesterday, I was listening to a podcast with the founder of Mid-day Squares, a company that manufactures and sells chocolate bars.

The founder talked about how they chose to own the manufacturing and distribution as well rather than just focus on branding and outsource the…

Presence

While playing football, when you find yourself in a goal-scoring position, if your mind starts thinking about the celebration that you will showcase after scoring or about the reaction from the audience after you score, you are likely not going to make the right connection to score in the first place.

Love thy user

I was recently in an elevator and someone ran in looking like they were in quite a hurry and started jamming at the button to take them to their floor. The button had lit up in bright red right after they had pressed it the first time, indicating that their input had been registered. Nonetheless, the…

Holding back

I watched Marvel’s ‘Spiderman: No Way Home’ yesterday, and highly recommend it if you’ve been following the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In the movie, MJ tells Peter, “If you expect disappointment, you will never really be disappointed”.

Wisdom

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable, while wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

This is a quote I came across recently but can’t find the right attribution to.

More of the same

I read Cal Newport often and I recently read about his new approach to managing his Inbox, where he has separate inboxes with separate email addresses for work, for his podcasts and for personal use. In moving from a single block of time for all email to multiple smaller blocks specific to each…

Ownership

“It’s not my job.”

That’s a line we hear often. And if not say it out loud ourselves, at least think in our heads just as often.

A lot of companies try to articulate what a sense of ownership in their employees means.

Reflection

When we meet someone after several months, they tend to tell us about the changes that they notice in us. “Hey, you seem to have put on some weight!”

However, we often don’t perceive the same changes about us in that drastic way.