Money and Wealth

• Decide on your mission for your quarter.
• Break mission down into objectives. 
• Draft your Key Results. Key Results are specific, timely and measurable indicators of your progress.
• Consider the purpose of each KR.
• Find an accountability partner. 
• Check in every 2–4 weeks with your partner. 

Having a life plan makes one get past the distractions and focus on what matters.Set aside an hour to do this planning exercise:

• List 1: Jot down your lifetime goals, listing everything that comes to your mind.
• List 2: Ask yourself ‘How would I want to spend the next five years?’ and note down the unbiased non-judgemental answer that comes in your mind.
• List 3: Ask yourself ‘If I was to die in six months, how would I spend the time I have?’
• List 4: Finally, list your most important goals, finding the common goals and aspirations from the previous three lists.

Looking through the most important goals, find the common thread and draft a plan of action for your life, a compelling Mission Statement, taking as much time as you want. Let it sit there for a few days and do not think about it.

Review the statement after a few days, see if it carries the magic that can be a guiding torch of your life, making any changes if required.

Everything starts with a wish. But don't transform that into fantasy.

When you fantasize, your brain thinks you’ve actually achieved your goal. So rather than ramping up, motivation dials back.

Be specific about the form your wish should take.

For example: If a "better work-life balance" is your wish, your outcome  could be “No work on weekends."

• Prioritize: The clearer your priorities, the more focused you can be on the task at hand. 
• Generate: Build a creative habit. Make a daily deliverable, whether it’s 100-words a day, a 30-second song etc...
• Explore: When you Explore, you collect the raw materials for the insights you’ll have when you Generate.
• Research: To solve a creative problem, you have to learn whatever you can about that problem.
• Recharge: When you rest, you allow your unconscious mind to work on your creative problems.
• Polish: A great idea won’t work if you don’t execute it well.
• Administrate: make it all work, so you can keep doing what you’re doing.

1. Build a tiny creative habit: Find the time of day with the best creative energy and make your daily deliverable so small, you can’t stand to fail.
2. Take time to Prioritize: Once you’ve established a habit, dedicate an hour a week to a “weekly review”.
3. Rest with a purpose: Establish times during your day and your week when you’ll do something that Recharges you.

A well-thought-out mission statement provides everyone with your core leadership values and priorities. It identifies the general direction of your actions to you and your team.

It also can vocalize your priorities to your team when you are not physically present.

Determine your core values, key traits, and beliefs.

Ask yourself what you believe to be necessary to succeed, and what traits you wish to see and not see in others. Clarify each aspect with yourself and be concise in creating the mission statement.

Get to working on improving your finances today, not tomorrow. Reading the steps and thinking you’re capable of doing it but postponing it is just an excuse, an unprofitable one.

Talking about your financial goals, and scheduling time once a month to go over your finances together can prevent money from affecting your relationship.

New formats are exciting and scary, and definitely worth doing if you want to stretch your writing muscle.

Try new kinds of content (articles, opinions, announcements, etc.) and play with different formats, to see what works best (images usually make a post more interesting, regardless of format).

Try different methods, environments, and schedules in your quest for a workflow that suits you.

Experimenting is really helpful in determining what works and what doesn't.

People don’t trust faceless corporations. They trust people. And intersecting your personal and business brands gives an invaluable human touch.

• Through a platform like LinkedIn, you are shown as a part of your organization (or industry) but your personal profile still stands distinct and is recognizable as your own personal brand.
• Twitter is another network where the personal and professional mix. 
  

21–35% of our life is spent at work, making it a crucial part of our lives to spend at something we find meaning in.

Meaningful work should be:

• Motivating and purposeful.
• Should be coherent and make some sense.
• Should be significant.

Meaningful work is when we feel a genuine connection with what we do for a living and our larger spectrum of life.

It is motivating, creates deep relationships and helps others.