Why Travel Is Very, Very Good for Your Résumé I’m saddened to hear about people who would love to travel more but are concerned about the impact taking an extended trip might have on their careers. You know that saying about regrets — I’m not sure all these people will get to seventy and say “I really wish I’d got one extra promotion”, but I bet a heap of them will think “I wish I’d traveled more”. Life is too short to spend too much of it working. So to help persuade these trip-taking fence-sitters I’ve put together this list of reasons why travel is actually good for your resume. Riding the Ferry, Washington State © woodleywonderworks Travel Develops Your Interpersonal Skills There is so, so much to learn from travel. Communication When you’re traveling, communication is almost equivalent to survival. Suddenly, when you’re traveling, communicating is almost equivalent to survival! Negotiation I was a hopeless negotiator when it came to money before I went traveling. Cross-cultural Understanding Self-sufficiency and Independence
4 Reasons Why Being Comfortable Isn’t a Good Thing We should all be comfortable, shouldn’t we? Well the answer may be obvious to most; yes of course everyone should have the right to a comfortable life. However comfort most often goes hand in hand with stagnation, in whatever your goals may be. Being comfortable means that you have accomplished what you think is necessary and have no further interest in pursuing goals of self-improvement in your health, career, mind and overall life. If you are comfortable and have no intentions of interrupting the daily motions of your current lifestyle, then read no further; however if you are looking to better yourself and pursue goals and dreams, I have compiled four reasons why you should never let yourself get comfortable until you have accomplished all that you have set out to accomplish. “Even though I played professionally in Cleveland, I still lived in Akron. 4. You may be suffering from the same dilemmas as Lebron was while playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers. You may be in the same situation.
Why the Five People Around You Are Crucial to Your Success One of my company's co-founders, Jeremy Weir, recently spent a weekend surfing with Uber co-founder Ryan Graves, enjoying talks about upending markets and fundamentally changing businesses. He returned from the trip having had an epiphany and possessed a renewed sense of excitement as we prepared to launch into a new vertical. Because Jeremy typically works by himself in a remote office, Graves’ influence proved to be a huge asset. It all proves that the company that a businessperson keeps can have a profound effect on him or her and subsequently the success of a business. Related: Getting Your Dream Mentor to Talk to You Renowned businessman Jim Rohn once said, “You’re the average of the five people you spend most of your time with.” You need people -- whether it’s co-founders, mentors, family or friends -- who will challenge you and make you better, thereby raising your average or helping you maintain a high one. When assessing your five people, consider the following: Be open to change.
The Busy Person's Guide to Content Curation: A 3-Step Process 841 Flares Filament.io 841 Flares × Museums curate works of art. We digital marketers curate blog posts. Though our link shares may not be artistic contributions, the idea of curation is at least the same at museums and online: We’re all seeking only the best material to pass along to our patrons, customers, fans, or followers. Finding and sharing exquisite content has never had more value than it does today. What is content curation? I’ve got a short definition for you and a long one. Content curation is sorting through a large amount of web content to find the best, most meaningful bits and presenting these in an organized, valuable way. For the slightly longer definition, I’ll paraphrase Mike Kaput’s great analogy on Content Marketing Institute about how curation has evolved to its place of prominence on today’s Internet. For a long time, our preferred method of consuming content was to visit blogs and websites that provided content specific to a niche or topic. All this is changing. 1.
Own Your Personal Development “Let him who would move the world first move himself.” — Socrates When it comes to your own personal development, who’s there for you? You are. Own your personal development. Nobody else will do this for you, or care about your personal development as much as you. In the book Leading with Your Legacy in Mind: Building Lasting Value in Business and in Life, Andrew Thorn shares a story to really remind us how important it is to own our personal development. A CEO Addresses the Workforce in a Town Hall Meeting When things are going well, it’s easy to forget how suddenly and swiftly your world can change. Via Leading with Your Legacy in Mind: Building Lasting Value in Business and in Life: “He spent some time discussion the impact of the losses the bank was experiencing, then said that in order to orchestrate a return to profitability, it would be necessary to reduce the workforce. Two Minutes on People, Forty-Two Minutes on Profitability It’s easy to talk about people development.
5 Signs You’re Going To Make It Big One Day Work harder on yourself than you do on your job 2.3K Flares Filament.io 2.3K Flares × This is the 7th article in our new series with advice on building a business, company culture and life-hacking from Joel, CEO here at Buffer. You can grab all posts here. “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn A long time ago, I came across the amazing quote above, which was said often by Jim Rohn. I feel that in a startup, the quote is even more relevant. It usually takes a few tries I certainly hope you do things better and faster than I have, and I know people far smarter than me building kickass products, but looking back and joining the dots of my own journey it is interesting to recall the number of different projects and startups I’ve started before hitting something that has worked. Unfortunately, the Internet is literally littered with my previous startup attempts, and it has taken me many tries and many years before I started Buffer and have started to have some success. Be open, vocal, and build your network P.S.
Become So Good They Can't Ignore You The Hard Truth About the 4-Hour Work Week 2inShare8 Think about it: four hours of work a week. Sounds great, doesn’t it? But it’s not for you. What makes you happy? You’re ambitious, desire success and won’t settle for just any job when you could be doing something meaningful that would make you happy. To quote Stephen King, who could easily kick back on the beach or drink fancy cocktails by the pool for the rest of his life: “I always wonder two things about these folks (writers with scanty legacies like Harper Lee — one book): how long did it take them to write the books they did write, and what did they do the rest of their time? King writes every day, without exception, because it makes him happy. If you think about success in life and still have a problem nailing it down, listen to Richard St. Passion. Does a four-hour workweek fit into that picture? “Get rich quick” and “do nothing and accomplish everything” recipes are like the Holy Grail. It doesn’t work in reality What’s the right thing to do?
The Most Valuable Lesson I've Learned as a CEO Fight Overthinking, That Destroyer of Decision Making When making decisions under pressure, many professionals are plagued with a fear of making the wrong choice, selecting an option that could lead to business failure. This fear of failure, in itself, is not a bad thing. In our new book What Business Can Learn From Sport Psychology, we examine how a fear of failure can actually provide powerful motivation for athletes and business professionals. But that's only if the fear of failure inspires thoughts of success and taking assertive actions toward a desired goal. So where does the fear of failure stem from? Related: The 4 Factors to Making the Best Decisions for You The root of overthinking. With overthinking, people want to make the right decision so much, they worry that they won’t be able to and lose sight of what it takes to make good decisions: a clear mind. Take driving for example. The trouble is, by examining all the component choices, you would be making decisions in a way that's very odd for your brain. Be instinctual.