Two weeks ago I wrote about Richard Branson and his act of "sheer absurdity" when he started a magazine without any capital or experience. As Branson noted, he was just too young to know better. I got so many positive responses to that post that I decided to do a bit more homework on the topic of "analysis paralysis" - the state of over-thinking
A very good friend of mine is out of work. He has been seeking a job for about 5 months (note: I am writing this blog entry with his permission).
The process, as you might expect, is difficult, sometimes humiliating and frustrating. And yet, my friend "soldiers on" treating his job search as a business to which he devotes 5 or 6 10-hour
One of our most fascinating discoveries about successful people is that sometimes the only point of differentiation between them and others is that the succeeders stopped deliberating and took action in the pursuit of something about which they felt strongly.
In other words, the idea that success stories are about special individuals - really