Love Your Work

Maya Angelou was right, “People will forget what you said...but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Because I don’t remember what this woman said to me, but I do remember how I felt: At…

When it came time for me to choose a college, I had no idea what I was doing. For reasons I still can’t explain, I chose to go to The University of Nebraska at Kearney. At least until I recognized my…

I used to be a time management enthusiast. I say “used to be,” because time management eventually stopped working for me.

It all started with an email. It was the ki…

Sometimes people tell me, “Hey David, The Heart to Start is a great book, but now that I’ve figured out how to start, how do I finish?!”

If you’re anything like me, finishing is tough. You can always…

One day, I was in a coworking space, here in Colombia, writing in my Moleskine notebook. One of the other co-workers came up to me and asked me a question.

He said, in Spanish, and with a sense of ea…

Offer expires soon. You don’t want to miss it! It’s the investment of a lifetime! It’s going to be the party of the century!

Can you feel the anxiety piling up? You know what it is – it’s FOMO. The F…

To get exceptional results, you need to do exceptional things.

Most things that are normal are normal only because very few people can resist them.

Just because it’s normal, doesn’t mean it’s good fo…

Ari Meisel (@arimeisel) created a productivity system out of necessity. He was suffering from a chronic and life-threatening illness that was so severe, he had no choice but to make the most out of e…

As the nineteenth century was turning to the twentieth century, Frederick Taylor grabbed a stopwatch. He stood next to a worker, and instructed that worker on exactly how to pick up a chunk of iron.

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Andrew Mason (@andrewmason) started a little website called The Point. An investor friend of his gave him a million dollars in seed money.

The Point failed, but Andrew then used that seed money to pi…

Many businesses have “SOP’s” It sounds very official as an acronym, and what it stands for sounds even more official: Standard Operating Procedure. It’s a document which outlines a process within a b…

Megan Devine (@refugeingrief) is the author of It’s OK That You’re Not OK, and runs the Writing Your Grief workshop. It wasn’t until Megan, a therapist, experienced grief herself that she discovered …

What are you doing?! Didn’t you read the title of this episode?

I’m begging you: Stop listening to my podcast.

You’re still here? Okay, I’ll see what I can do to persuade you to stop listening to my …

Dylan Evans (@evansd66) had an intense experience with uncertainty. He was fifty percent certain that civilization would collapse within several years.

So, he sold his house, gave up his job, and set…

In the 1600s, Penelope Kent boarded a ship from Holland to the New World with her new husband. Their ship wrecked off the coast, but still, Penelope and her husband made it to shore.

There, they were…

Dr. Aziz Gazipura is author of a great book, Not Nice: Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking Up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, And Unapologetically Being Yourself.

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When I was writing my first book, Design for Hackers, I developed a ritual. I would lay all of my research materials on the floor. Graphic Design history books were splayed out. I had research papers…

Demir and Carey Bentley are co-founders of Lifehack Bootcamp, where they help professionals make more of their time and energy, to get more results. They once found themselves getting sucked into the…

As I kicked and punched at the man, I glanced at the knife in his right hand. And I felt it dig into my side.

It all started as I crossed paths with the man. He reached in his pocket, and pulled out …