Innovation Can Help You Stand Out in a Crowd
Innovation can help your organization improve its products, processes, or business model. But maybe, innovation’s greatest strength is helping you stand out from the crowd. Let me give you a personal example where I learned this by accident. A few years back, when I lived in London, I was a member of a hip and […]
Creative Valentine’s Day Gifts
Valentine’s Day is coming soon. Do you know what to get your loved one? If not, definitely read this article written by my good friend – and creative genius – Ed Bernacki. He provides 3 simple yet powerful creativity tools for finding the perfect Valentine’s Day gift. Enjoy. —- If you’ve ever purchased a Valentine’s […]
Crazy Goals Drive Your Crazy
“43Things.com,” a community-based online to-do list, allows you to list your top goals in life. A blog reader, Antony, culled some interesting statistics from that website. 5,716 people set the goal: “Decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life.” 21,100 people set the goal: “Stop procrastinating” What’s funny […]
Do We Get Less Creative As We Age?
In an earlier blog post, I included a quote from Voltaire. He once said, “Man can only have a certain number of teeth, hairs, and ideas. There comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, his hair, and his ideas.” This quote sparked a small debate between 2 blog readers. Dr.YKK chimed in with, […]
What is Passion?
The other day I was having lunch with Mike Bell, the man who hired me for an engineering co-op job during university – an opportunity that changed my life. He has also changed the lives of over 250,000 students who have been educated with his math instruction methods. During our time together, he gave me […]
Play Like The Patriots?
Readers of my blog know that my “theme” this year is Play Like the Patriots. For those of you who missed it, my beloved team was defeated by the New York Giants in a major upset Sunday night in the Superbowl. After winning all 18 games this year, the Patriots lost the big one. I […]
Live and Love Like a Little One
Here is a beautiful passage that Antony, a reader in Australia, sent to me. It poetically describes how adults can rekindle their love of life by thinking like a child. This is an eloquent, simple, and compelling example of what I mean by Goal-Free Living. This is from Muhammad Ali: “Children make you want to […]
Can You Judge a Book By Its Cover?
In a previous blog entry, I discussed an Economist article that showed: There is a perception that particular traits are important to good leadership, namely competence, dominance, and facial maturity. Likability and trustworthiness are not. Just by looking at a picture, we can get a sense of someone’s leadership qualities and hence their personality. In […]
See Stephen Speak about Goal-Free Living on PBS
Are you in the Mt. Pleasant, Michigan area? If so, tune in to WCMU-TV Sunday night, February 3, at 11:30 PM. I am interviewed on the PBS television show, “Between the Lines.” This 30 minute show is dedicated to “Goal-Free Living.”
Quote of the Day
“Goals are for the future. Values are now. Goals are set. Values are lived. Goals change. Values are rocks you can count on.” From Gung Ho! by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles