Science Says Having This Will Make You More Successful and More Productive. It Doesn’t Take Much Time

One of the most successful investors of our time, Ray Dalio, once said, recognize that it doesn't take a lot of time to design a good plan....

Move. 3 Easy Ways to Make Getting up From Your Desk Easier

Moving changes your state, gets your blood flowing around your body, can snap you out of that daydream and helps stir creative thoughts. It’s good...

Email Organization Hack that Will Increase your Inbox Productivity

There's no avoiding it. We all spend a ton of time in our inbox. And here's the thing, the most efficient way to use your inbox to make sure that you ...

How to Use Voicemail to Increase Your Productivity

The best way to use voice mail is to not use voice mail and here’s why… You’re already using at least three other forms of communication as your...

A Partner from Sequoia Capital Showed up at My Door

A Partner from Sequoia Capital Showed up at My Door How it All Started On a fall morning in 1998 I was working at our headquarters and there...

The Ideal Vacation Length

The Ideal Vacation Length Ever feel like your vacation ends just as you’re starting to relax? Or maybe you come back feeling more stressed than when...

Forget about keeping up with the Joneses. Here’s why.

Forget about keeping up with the Joneses. Here's why. The phrase "Keeping Up with the Joneses" was created by Arthur R. "Pop" Momand in 1913. The...

Charles M. Schwab Paid Over $400,000 for This Daily Routine That He and His Team Used for Peak Productivity – The Ivy Lee Method

Charles M. Schwab Paid Over $400,000 for This Daily Routine That He and His Team Used for Peak Productivity - The Ivy Lee Method Bottom Line Up...

How to Write a Business Plan [updated for March 2024]

How to Write a Business Plan [updated for March 2024] In this article I show you how to write a business plan in just 11 simple slides. This will...

How I Built an Online Business Of My Dreams

How I Built an Online Business of My Dreams Note to you before reading: this is a working post, I add, edit often. Last update April 1,2024I wrote...

A lesson about achieving your goals from Darby

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): You’re going to want to quit your goal(s) when it gets really tough and your success feels unlikely. Change direction...

Slay Your Dragon

Explorers took the dragons literally and that thought kept from from pushing into new worlds Centuries ago when mapmakers ran out of the known world...

Lesson From the Recent Rain Storms Here In Northern California

The rain storms this winter in NorCal have been nothing less than incredible. Roads washing out, crazy wind, surf, mud slides, trees falling,...

This How to be Happy image is the most popular on my blog

We’re revamping my personal website (you're seeing it now, what do you think?) and as we’ve been cleaning up and re-writing some old blog posts, I...

I started a SaaS (software as a service) company and I’m sharing the journey with you so you can see what it takes AND what it costs.

I started a software company originally called Attachment Cloud, now called File Finder, as a side hustle a few years ago as a result of Ivette (my...