So today we’re going to be talking about an important aspect of running a business of any size. That aspect is the division of labor. We’re going to be using an unnamed associate of mine as an example to illustrate a few points. Every business is about making money while providing a good or service […]
Read more "The Cost of Help: Division of Labor"Before we get into this topic I would like to say that there are absolutely times you need to walk away from a project or a give a project up. That could be from a number of reasons ranging from a moral choice to the after effects being worse than the loss of success. Now […]
Read more "Mindset: The Adoption of Failure."Today we’re going to be talking about something that affects storytelling, business, and our personal lives. That topic is motivation, and we will be looking at one of my regular Dungeons & Dragons games to illustrate the importance of motivation. I’ve been running a campaign for some of my friends for over a year now. […]
Read more "Motivation: A Rabbit To Chase"Today we’re going to be talking about switching our mindset to aggressive success. And we’re going to be using a number of different but semi related examples to achieve success, whether through the use of tools or changing our view of the situation. There are two reasons for this post. The first is an attempt […]
Read more "The Cost of Mindset: Run Through the Jungle"I’m a big believer that we create more problems for ourselves when we react without thinking. That’s how I managed to stab myself with a fork over Memorial Day weekend. But sometimes we move on from a project or an area prematurely. and when we feel that success keeps evading us we can return to […]
Read more "The Cost of Revisiting: Fixing Our Own Problems."In the last story of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has the world’s greatest detective lament the “Going out of the lights” across Europe. At the time World War I was looming over the Horizon, bringing with it the concerns of the future. Today we find ourselves in a mad world. Not necessarily in […]
Read more "Long Term Consequences: The Lights and The Goose"My writing has a taken a huge hit since Covid-19 started and the world started to apparently implode. So today we’re going to talk about opportunities, how to manage them, and perfect combinations. Today’s illustration comes from my bi-weekly Water World campaign of Dungeons & Dragons. Now I know at least one of my co-players […]
Read more "Managing Opportunities: Perfect Combinations"Sometimes problems just come back to haunt us. If you didn’t read my previous Zombie Problems post, one of the old projects I used to consult on is being re-imagined by someone else. If not completely reviving it, trying a new variation. Now the project is still pretty much an attempt to create a community […]
Read more "Zombie Problems: Mindset Blinders"“Some places are so hot you could boil water [with the radiation pockets].”– Armory Attendant in Metro Last Light. With everything going on from a global pandemic to people being required to wear filtration masks or just masks in their day to day interactions out in the world, I decided to revisit the Metro series. […]
Read more "Primary Problems as Tertiary Problems."I live in a world filled with tools. Some old, some new. Some are mental tools and others are physical tools. Either way there are millions and millions of options in the world for us to sort through in order to determine our toolsets. But sometimes we have nothing but options, with a wide variety […]
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