Podcast What Makes You Happy? It’s the age old question about leading a rewarding life: What makes you happy? In this episode I detail my experiences answering this question and provide a framework for
Freelancing vs. Full-Time – Which Is Better? A Framework for Choosing Do you prefer being a full-time employee or working as a freelancer / consultant? Is one a better choice than the other? Which is right for you? Great questions. In this episode, I walk through the differences and what it takes to get started as
Podcast Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome So many accomplished people suffer from the Imposter Syndrome. The good news is that it is fairly easy to overcome. In this episode, I discuss exactly how to do that.
Article Regrets of the Dying Several years ago a palliative care worker named Bronnie Ware wrote a very powerful blog post detailing some of the experiences she shared with her patients during the final phase
Article Cultivating Self-Motivation Why do you think most college entrance forms require a written essay? Partly to assess the student’s linguistic aptitude, but primarily to measure motivation. Motivation, after all, is perhaps
Article How to Overcome Inertia When I was selling healthcare software to hospitals, I was very proud of the fact that we never lost a sale to a competitor. Unfortunately though, I was still losing.
Article Overcoming Fear In 1932 – during the Great Depression – the unemployment rate for the US was at a staggering 24%. This period of agonizing economic hardship was preceded by two tumultuous days of
Article Making Sense of Relative Deprivation One of Malcolm Gladwell’s many terrific books is David and Goliath. One of many counterintuitive inferences drawn in the book has profound implications for hiring managers, students, and parents.
Article Crazy Bets and the Nature of Sure Things Are you a betting person? I like to play craps in the casino. Not because I think I can win – the house has an edge in every game. But craps
Article How To Avoid Demotivating Employees Consider this experiment. Students are asked to solve a word-find puzzle – a kind of puzzle where letters are arranged in a large grid and one must find certain words “hidden”
Article Public Speaking – A Skill That Can Change Your Life Public Speaking. Yes, I know it is scary. Yes, I know many people are more fearful of public speaking than of dying. But learning how to be an excellent public
Podcast Meaningful Living and Extraordinary Results through the PSI Framework In this first episode of my Anthony’s Desk podcast, I share the background on how I discovered the problem-solution-impact (PSI) framework and the way it has significantly changed lives
