Welcome back to part II of unlocking your true learning potential. Learning how to learn is a crucial skill and here we'll uncover some actionable tactics to boost that specific meta skill. Why is this important? Well, as an entrepreneur you’re faced with the challenge of ramping up your business quickly. Because of this, there’s [...]
Lesson #1 for overcoming anxiety: Anxiety is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and you get rid of your anxiety. Easy enough, right? Wrong. It’s perhaps the hardest thing to do. So it’s frustrating when we read articles or posts where all that’s said is “change your perspective,” and that’s it. What are you [...]
Effective learning isn’t as straightforward or intuitive as most people think. In fact, you are probably doing many things to limit your true learning potential. The learning strategies you adopt, directly impact how well you learn new topics and retain them, which is crucial for reaching your maximum potential. As an entrepreneur, you spend a [...]
Entrepreneurship comes with its fair share of stresses, anxieties, obligations, duties, and tasks. From retaining top talent and creating cultures of fairness, to guaranteeing financing and making the best possible decisions at every fork of the road - yes indeed, the stressors are plentiful. Effectively coping with stress, is a crucial factor in entrepreneurial success. [...]
Being an entrepreneur comes with benefits – a big one being job satisfaction. This makes sense as business owners tend to start their companies around topics they enjoy. Being successful in your role is dependent on how you handle situations – but also, how you learn. Learning how to learn is important in every facet, [...]
As a founder you’ve probably experienced your fair share of anxiety: The pang of fear felt in the pit of your stomach, or the dull throb of worry lingering in the back of your mind. You probably wished you knew a technique that could help with reducing these entrepreneurial anxieties. While a healthy dose of [...]
Personal uncertainty and entrepreneurship Uncertainty is inevitable for the entrepreneur and founder. In the words of author Stephen Covey, “if there’s one thing certain in business, it’s uncertainty.” There are many forms of uncertainty. But perhaps the most dangerous, the one that plagues the founder everyday, is that of personal uncertainty. In contrast to informational [...]
Maintaining focus and concentration throughout your day is imperative to your productivity. There are many ways to help maintain your concentration (e.g. through becoming more mindful, creating your own focus formula, start including short naps throughout your day, etc.) but we often forget that food is a major contributor to how we feel throughout the [...]
As you may have learned from the previous focus post, mindfulness and mediation have many benefits including: Improves your focus and concentration Helps you sleep Reduces stress Increases self-awareness Increases acceptance Increases happiness Improves immune health Slows ageing The list goes on. You will find a frenzy of articles, tips, tricks and courses all over [...]
Entrepreneurs have to be fantastic at conversation. There’s no way around it. Then again, entrepreneurs have to be good at a lot of things. Building a successful business requires a plethora of skill-sets. But while these people spend hours upon hours honing certain skills they deem useful, others get overlooked. Conversation is one of them. [...]