Steve Jobs is known for, aside from Apple and Pixar, his reality-distortion field. He simply made the impossible possible in the tech world.

Steve Jobs is a visionary. And many are like him.

Erik Calonius has documented the “why’s” of how these visionaries achieved great success at their respective fields in his book, Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us (affiliate link).

I kept Erik’s book in my personal library simply because I love it. Erik found out that these visionaries are not really apart from us – they are only ahead of us. We possess the same quality they possess. But the difference is how they see things differently. And, you, too, can learn to see things differently.

This is the main idea in my latest post titled, “Visionary: Seeing Through Defects” (posted in my personal blog).

Go one step ahead, read Visionary: Seeing Through Defects.

We all have our little habits; the routines and rituals that we adhere to on a daily basis, or the day itself just doesn’t feel right.

Many of these are rooted in our activity before and after work: that morning cup of coffee, that evening glass of wine and even certain clothing that we like to wear on certain days.If we miss any of these little rituals out, it can affect the way we feel and even the way we behave.

In a peculiar way it can have a pronounced on our productivity too. However, there are other habits that we take with us into the office – and these can have a more dramatic and negative impact on what we do. [...] Continue Reading…

One trending topic in the last years is time management. How to get better at it, what to do in order to be more efficient and what it really means. Few people take a minute to ask themselves a simple question: why should I manage my time better? [...] Continue Reading…