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Category Archives: personal purpose
What Makes Great Organizations and Individuals different?
According to Simon Sinek, what makes the difference for great organizations – and great leaders – is that they know their ‘Why”. It is from their purpose that they derive how they do things and what they do in detail. … Continue reading
Stop blaming, and take responsibility for once!
Naturally, we almost always blame someone or something else for our powerlessness to achieve what we would like. And the worst is that we often don’t realize it because it has become so second-nature to us! It sometimes take someone … Continue reading
What if we were all somewhat insane (and what we can do about it)
A nice definition of insanity is: to do things over and over again – and expect a different result. It’s quite amusing to think that we are probably all insane to a certain point. In our lives we often repeat … Continue reading
What the World Needs is More People that Are Alive. How Alive are You?
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive” ~Howard Thurman In the Industrial Age, not so long ago, society wanted us … Continue reading
What should you do with Criticism?
It’s good to have critics. It shows you are contributing to a worthwhile shift. It means people pay attention to you. It can contribute to improve your product, your art. Here are 6 reasons why criticism is a good thing. … Continue reading
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Why, even in a Complex World, you Need to Head Towards your Purpose!
In an ever more complex world where many events become difficult to predict, our tendency would be to follow the flow, let the events drive us. That’s not how we’ll reach greatness. An acute observer of companies taking decisions in … Continue reading
Three Questions to Help You Define your True Aspirations
Jim Collins gives us three questions to define our aspirations (actually, he gave it in the context of a company but it does work for us personally too!): What are your real core values and your real aspirations? What is the truth about … Continue reading
How you Should Subtract Things Every Day from Your Life
A very famous quote by Lao Tze talks about wisdom: “To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day.” We are not used to consider subtracting things from our daily life, unlearning what we know, … Continue reading
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
So many self-development books speak about “finding ourselves”! Is that really true? Do we have an innate ourselves that we need to seek through some layers of junk accumulated throughout the years? This is a wrong concept. Life is about creating ourselves. … Continue reading
Why do we consider that people can’t change their mind?
Recently another perverse effect of the fixed mindset became obvious to me as I was in the US watching a presidential election debate (but this can be observed in any country). Commentators and debaters alike spent their time referring to … Continue reading
How more constraints force us to create better solutions
“In the field of design, there is the belief that with more constraints, better solutions are revealed” – John Maeda in “The laws of simplicity” Would that also be true in real life? Would more constraints force us to find … Continue reading
Why you can’t achieve your dreams alone, especially if they really matter
I went to a series of entrepreneur workshops and, again, and again, the same recommendation came from of the experienced entrepreneurs: don’t follow your dreams alone, focus on getting a team! This is the single main distinction between successful endeavors … Continue reading
