Getting Better.

What are we intending to accomplish today? Getting Better.

What are we intending to accomplish today? Productivity

What are we intending to accomplish today?

“The most meaningful rewards, with the least wasted effort.” - Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

What are we intending to accomplish today? Motivation




“Expending energy trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time…If you have the right people on the bus, they will be self-motivated.” - Jim Collins, Good to Great







“People who know how to self-motivate, according to studies, earn more money than their peers, report higher levels of happiness, and say they are more satisfied with their families, jobs, and lives.” - Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better


What’s your sentence…?


“Self-motivation, in other words, is a choice we make because it is part of something bigger and more emotionally rewarding than the immediate task that needs doing.” - Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

What are we intending to accomplish today? Goal Setting


S.M.A.R.T. Goals and the World’s First Bullet Train



In particular, objectives like SMART goals often unlock a potential that people don’t even realize they possess. The reason, in part, is because goal-setting processes like the SMART system force people to translate vague aspirations into concrete plans. - Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

What are we intending to accomplish today? But…we also need more.


“Numerous academic studies have examined the impact of stretch goals, and have consistently found that forcing people to commit to ambitious, seemingly out-of-reach objectives can spark outsized jumps in innovation and productivity.” - Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

What are we intending to accomplish today? Expertise


Selling: the ability to influence, to persuade, and to change behavior while striking a balance between what others want and what you can provide them. -Daniel H. Pink, To Sell is Human


In all my years of research, I have found it is surprisingly rare to get clear evidence in any field that a person has reached some immutable limit on performance. Instead, I’ve found that people more often just give up and stop trying to improve. - K. Anders Ericsson, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise


You could have been like Mozart, you probably just didn’t know it…

Getting Better.

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