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How to Find Your First Mentor
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Every piece of career advice you’ll ever get talks about the value of a mentor.
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Mentors in Conversations
Naturally, everybody who doesn’t have a mentor wants one.
So they approach potential mentors with emails about what they need. What they don’t realize is that the mentor-mentee relationship is something that occurs organically, when both of them have something of value to offer each other. All of the following are patterns I’ve observed over 700 plus interviews and conversations with friends about how people found their mentors.
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The Power of Setting Goals You Can Accomplish in 90 Days
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The great thing about having a 12 week year is that the deadline is always near enough that you never lose sight of it.
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Time Is the Most Valuable Asset at Your Disposal
You can always make more money. But the one thing you can never get back is your time. One of our biggest misconceptions about time is how long something should take. We don’t see that we are the ones who determine how long we think something will take. To our detriment, we usually overestimate the time and make slower progress towards our goals.
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If You Want to Design Your Life, Start by Designing Your Environment
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A few nights ago I was teaching the first session of our Fearless Writer’s workshop.
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The Designing Your Days
One of the common challenges people had was maintaining some semblance of consistency. It was the same problem I had before 2013. But once I understood the impact that environment has on behavior, and started to design my environments for my desired behavior deliberately, my daily writing habit became automatic.
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