Over this past weekend I was blessed to present alongside an awesome lineup of speakers at TEDx MillRiver in Connecticut. One of my fellow presenters was Peter Bregman, author extraordinaire as well as leadership, productivity, and communication expert. His latest book 18 Minutes can be found in the featured section of any Barnes & Noble or any other major bookstore.
After both our presentations were over I sat down with him to ask a few questions regarding career and life, two topics
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Motivation
How to tell if an endeavor is right for you
Does it scare you? If no, then you can stop right there. It's not worth it.
If yes. How much does it scare you? Is it a completely debilitating fear? Or does it give you a queasy feeling where you stop breathing and forget your name for a split second?
If you list the worst things that can happen should you fail at this endeavor, and it still gives you that debilitating fear that the world will be over, then maybe it's not yet time for you to tackle this. But if you feel like you'll
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Bumps (ramps) along the way
When starting to do something new, the seemingly obvious problem is never the real problem. It's always the extra step, the extra coordination, the extra red tape that becomes the last frontier to getting a project off the ground.
The reason is that when we venture into something, we always tell ourselves "the reason no one has done this before is because they don't want to deal with X." X in this case being the obvious roadblock that seemingly prevents competition from entering the fray.
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