Welcome to my blog
Writing since 2010, I explore and share ideas around personal growth, creativity, design, branding, business, strategy and technology.
The incredible freedom of having a routine
When you think about successful creatives or artists, you would probably conjure the image of weird people prone to flights of fancy, brilliant sure, but often capricious, unstable, or unreliable. You would imagine that they value large swatches of unstructured time...
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A bunch of thoughts
I don’t have anything to say. And yet, I must blog. I must write and publish something. Because I made the commitment to. And part of the journey towards success is respecting the process, when it is easy and when it is hard. So, I will write. And because...
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Mind the lag
Another meditation on the process and experience of getting things done. The last stretch of any serious project is usually the most grueling part of the whole ordeal. It is almost like birthing. The bulk of it has a lot of work sure – conceptualizing, designing...
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To unlock your true potential, you have to embrace leverage
For the past few weeks, I have been exploring the concept of potential, and how to maximize it. Each week, I have highlighted an idea that would help anyone do more and become more, tapping into what they are truly capable of. Things like demanding more of yourself,...
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The shortest distance between two points is a straight line
In the pursuit of what we want, or the striving to reach our potential, we are essentially attempting to get from point A to point B, whatever those points are. It could be from broke, to having a bit of money. From unfit, to healthy. From depressed, to happy. We all...
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Where is your locus of control?
There is a fundamental disposition that will affect if you win or lose, and the level of success you would reach. It is how you think about control. Your level of happiness is directly linked to how much autonomy, control or choice you have in your life....
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Take on a heavy load
So, we’ve been exploring ‘How to Maximize your Potential’ over the past couple of posts. And every week, I try to share an idea or principle that could help us in the quest to maximize our potential. So far, we have looked at things that hinder us from reaching...
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You can’t win if you don’t change
It is a strange thing. Most people want to win – move forward to the next level and do more with their lives, reach their potential. But they want to do it while keeping everything in their lives exactly the way it is now. As humans, we naturally resist change....
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Let go of the ego
Potential is…dormant ability…reserved power…untapped strength…unused success…hidden talents…capped capability. Inherent in the idea of reaching your potential – ‘doing more with yourself and your life’ is the fact that where you are right now isn't enough, that there...
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The one about anxiety
I had just posted my last piece on the 7 reasons you don’t reach your potential when my friend George hit me up asking if I had ever written about anxiety. Personally, I like to write about what I know best and stick to my comfort zone which is the personal...
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