by Gabriel Stein | Aug 15, 2015 | Personal Development
Posture in this context is like posture for your health, this is posture for personality. It’s essentially the external result of internal character. When we have bad internal character, we exhibit it externally in our proverbial “posture”. An...
by Gabriel Stein | Aug 14, 2015 | Business, Personal Development, Software
How you brand yourself is a large indicator of how people will respond and interact with you. You are essentially teaching other people how to treat you. This means using care and thought when creating your online identity is key in taking full advantage of...
by Gabriel Stein | Aug 12, 2015 | Personal Development
I highly recommend journaling for many many reasons. But a very powerful additional technique is instead of journaling about the past, journal about the future. So you’re still writing down what happened recently, just from the perspective of 1-10 years from...
by Gabriel Stein | Aug 12, 2015 | Personal, Personal Development
Everyone possesses a set of core resources, and how well we invest those resources based on ROI determines our results. Peter Drucker is right that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. But you can’t measure what you don’t know you have. So...
by Gabriel Stein | Aug 8, 2015 | Personal, Personal Development
As we live our lives, and either meet or fall short of our Present Potential, we collect experiences and external input from the world. These experiences can be anywhere from great to ugly. Of course how we respond to them through our decisions is huge. But holding...
by Gabriel Stein | Aug 7, 2015 | Personal
Box breathing is a very powerful technique that massively changes your body’s chemistry and your physiology. It’s most helpful in high stress, pressure, or anxiety situations. But it’s very helpful in any circumstance or emotional state! 1. Start by...
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 28, 2015 | Personal Development
There are many industries that I view as “nebulous”. So lofty, vague, complex, and/or risky, that they appear nebulous to those who don’t have a solid understanding of them. I know many people view spaces like legal, medicine, or taxes as nebulous....
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 28, 2015 | Business, Personal Finance
You can measure rough inflation by: 1. Take the price of gold in 1913 which was $20 per Troy Ounce (eg $20 gold Double Eagle is one Troy Ounce) 2. Take the current price of gold [gold-price] ($1,100 at time of writing) 3. Divide 20 by the current price of gold 4. That...
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 22, 2015 | Business, Personal Development
There’s two types of delegation in leadership: 1. Ego based delegation – centered around the principle that you’re “too good” or that a specific task is “below you” 2. Humility based delegation – centered around the...
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 14, 2015 | Personal Development
Framing (the act of producing a framework that supports and provides structure to an idea) is a very powerful effect. It happens whether or not we’re conscious of it. Which of course is why being conscious and aware of it is key. It’s very connected to...