Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
The next time you encounter an obstacle in your path, immediately look for ways to maneuver around it, through it, under it, or over it. When the obstacle loses your focus, it loses its power.
Ghost Resources • 🔥 Why We've Misunderstood What It Means to "Focus"
Make aligned choices: Prioritizing what truly matters to you can help you make decisions that align with your values and goals.
Alex Mathers • The 80/20 Principle: Achieving More With Less
In most every other area of our economy, not only is productivity a well-defined concept, but it’s often central to how work unfolds. Indeed, much of the astonishing economic growth fueling modernity can be attributed to a more systematic treatment of this fundamental idea. Early uses of the term can be traced back to agriculture, where its meaning
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“Communication is about what is received, not what is intended. If there is a gap between what you are saying and what they are hearing, you have to find a new way to say it.”
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
—Anaïs Nin
Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the... See more
MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
We’ve gotten so damn good at making products with good physical attributes that the commercial war of the future will be about identity rather than value —Iannaccone
Yet the fundamental loss remains—it doesn’t just dissipate—and, in a strange way, I think it can become a magnet for other losses. We come to see we are all simply creatures carrying around our ever-deepening loss. Small griefs seem to collect around the bigger primary grief. I think this realization allows us to become a true human being.
