by Gabriel Stein | Jun 12, 2017 | Personal, Personal Development, Personal Finance
Most people use the wrong signals to stop and start behaviors, and therefore get the wrong results. Imagine you’re eating some great cake, and you’ve eaten a single slice and it was excellent. That signal of “this is good” should actually be an...
by Gabriel Stein | Apr 21, 2017 | Personal, Productivity
Imagine every task you had on your to do list, cost $5 per month. This would fundamentally change how you viewed them. Working on 10 tasks 10% each month would still mean you’re paying $5 per month for all of them for the whole time for 10 months until...
by Gabriel Stein | Apr 12, 2017 | Productivity, Software
Imagine you had a single folder with 10,000 documents, or 10,000 folders with a single file? How about 100 folders with 100 files, which is more preferable? And what if you had structure dictating some top level folders, and some lower level folders? Say categories,...
by Gabriel Stein | Apr 5, 2017 | Personal Development, Productivity
I’m sure you’ve experienced it, you’re in a meeting of some kind and trying to tackle an important topic, and someone cracks a joke. Regardless of the quality or appropriateness of the joke, a threat to the effectiveness of the meeting has been...
by Gabriel Stein | Mar 31, 2017 | Personal Development, Productivity
If you were an airplane, what kind of airplane would you be? Most people live their life like a fighter jet, or even worse, a UFO. But in reality, the most highly productive people are like 747’s. Let me explain. Because time is really a subset of physics, this means...
by Gabriel Stein | Jan 27, 2017 | Personal, Personal Development, Software
Sleep is a critically important activity, one that we ideally spend one third of our life doing. And the quality of it determines the large majority of our life. So with that in mind, here are some of the most helpful things I’ve found for improving sleep...
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 8, 2016 | Personal Development
Defined by Dictionary.com as: “any system or network of interconnecting and interacting parts, as in a business” We all have ecosystems — aka large interconnected areas of our life — but we usually don’t break them down into their component systems. This means we lack...
by Gabriel Stein | Feb 5, 2016 | Productivity, Software
This is probably one of the best. Using a fill in the blank style you can generate a lot of ideas in a short amount of time. Here’s a sample of some I whipped up. Check it out here: http://www.impactbnd.com/blog-title-generator/blogabout Some wacky ideas and fun...
by Gabriel Stein | Jan 5, 2016 | Business, Productivity
I often hear people expressing frustration at finding “business ideas”, but you can’t (and shouldn’t) start with “business ideas”. You have to go through a full loop of the OODA process to create a successful business. Most people...
by Gabriel Stein | Dec 24, 2015 | Personal Development, Productivity
If you know you have an addiction to anything, spending time around both the thing and the people who abuse it will increase your chance of relapse or abuse to near 100%. Sadly, what most people attempt is to continue to spend time around those people and use...
