Mike "Bagel"

@bagelpuc

Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector

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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"

Work will feel different when you shift from seeking enoughness through work to a place where you already believe that you are enough. You start to choose work that you genuinely enjoy. I’m finding joy in my work today that I’ve never known before.

David Spinks • How to Downshift

🥰 working with emotions and the world of work

“Hello” happens long before you speak. We can tell from across the room when a salutation might soon occur. Start your hello adjustments (mind, body, voice, attention) sooner than later. A challenge: can you walk into the room already adjusted?

James Buckhouse • How to Say Hello

🤝 A delightful introduction

Some thoughts on posting:

You should get to the point where you post enough to not get triggered by other people’s posts - this is often a challenge for new posters. They start posting more and start replying but the ratio of disagreement to agreement is off. Once you post enough you see the subtle difference between an interesting disagreement and

substack.com • Home | Substack

writing on substack and just start writing

KNOWLEDGE WORK (GENERAL DEFINITION) The economic activity in which knowledge is transformed into an artifact with market value through the application of cognitive effort.

Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Thumbnail of Humor, Satire, and Cartoons—The New Yorker

Wendi Aarons • Humor, Satire, and Cartoons—The New Yorker

humor in politics

When I try to make the best thing, it feels different. It feels like I’m trying to prove something to someone instead of trying to discover something for myself. It feels dishonest and disrespectful of where I’m at. I’m not the best, so why should I try to make the best things? I’m just me, so I should make me things.

I don’t like making the best things - internetVin

Thus our strange relationship with the pain of grief. In the early days, we wish only for it to end; later on, we fear that it will. And when it finally does begin to ease, it also does not, because, at first, feeling better can feel like loss, too.

Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All

death & grieving

The workers eventually—inevitably—fought back against this grim situation. They pushed for reform legislation, like the Fair Labor Standards Act (passed by the US Congress in 1938), which fixed forty hours as the standard workweek, limiting the fraction of the day that could be snared in monotonous effort without extra pay. They also formed labor