How often do you finish the projects you start? How often do you get started, and then see a new opportunity and switch to that? When you start on a project there's usually a reward at the end, a reason you are doing the project, but how often do you get the reward? How do you properly value the reward at the end of the project versus a new opportunity? The answer lies at The End Of The Road which is Why You Should Finish.

How do you figure out what is truly happening when you can't explain the results. Expectations are being missed and results don't appear to align with the strategy in place. Use The Alien Observer Model.

Step 1) Assume you are alien and don't speak the language. Step 2) Observe all the actions. Step 3) Write down a strategy that supports the actions. Step 4) Given the derived strategy, optimize it for the the actual results. The problem or opportunity is the difference between this strategy and you stated strategy.

What do you do when you can't find the simple linear path forward? How do you create momentum from a state of being completely stuck? Learn how to reframe the problem, create momentum, and start the path forward.

In 2011, Daniel Pink suggested in his book Drive that the secret to workplace motivation is a combination of mastery, autonomy, and purpose which combine to form Drive. We examine this idea and how we can use it to troubleshoot your life.

We feel powerless about many things in our life. We don't want responsibility for the things we can't control. But when you refuse to take responsibility, you give up all power for the things you care about. The secret is to take ownership of everything.

Most jobs present themselves as success games when in reality they are status games. The difference between these two types creates the majority of frustration that we experience with our profession. Find out if you're playing the right game.

How you do one thing is how you do everything. ~Old Zen Saying

Pick a side. Start a war. ~Reggie Watts