Working People

Working People

Working people mind their own business.

If they get too distracted complaining about other people’s problems, they make excess enemies and run a deficit of their own achievement. Survival requires getting work done. Getting work done takes time. Time requires focus, especially with all the distractions screaming for attention.

Busybodies are not the threat they like to think of themselves as. When a busybody complains about you, don’t worry. He’s focusing on your challenges because he hasn’t overcome enough of his own. Just keep working.

Working people are formidable, both in daily challenges and when the are confronted by challengers.

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Grow up and Teach Yourself

Grow up and Teach Yourself

One of the most important things to understand is knowing who wants to understand.

Time and again, an up and coming leader delegates design, manufacturing, marketing, engineering, software development, customer relations—while directing brand strategy in a vacuum from whatever they delegate. Brand graveyards are littered with flowers from copywriters who quit or were fired just before the brand failed. Do your research and find out.

In fact, always do your research. Work with people who do their own research. Teach people who teach themselves. Teach yourself so good teachers want to teach you.

Grow with people who grow up.  · · · →

Wise Tone of Voice

Wise Tone of Voice

America is seeing an epidemic of immaturity. People in their twenties and thirties are self-destructing like I have never known.

The story is always the same. “Adults and the culture didn’t treat me fairly when I grew up,” so they injure themselves, hurt themselves, fool themselves, squander themselves, and reject themselves—all because someone else treated them wrongly.

Really?

An entire generation made unwise choices because they were mistreated? It’s not their fault, even a little?

Don’t live that way. Don’t hurt yourself because of others. Don’t ignore good advice because someone told you in the wrong tone of voice.  · · · →

Killing Pity

Killing Pity

Pain doesn’t go away by focusing on it. Pain is a symptom, not a problem. Most problems need time and the body needs strength. Focusing on our own pain makes us weaker; then the problem grows, the pain worsens. And, if we don’t get wise to the cycle, the cycle will snowball into self pity.

As much as we’d like to think so, other people have much bigger problems than we do. They need us to put their problems ahead of our own.

In fact, as we help others, we might stay away from our own cycles of self pity.  · · · →