Have you been entirely truthful with everyone you've met? If not, then join the club. Many of us think telling white lies is OK, and happily do so all day long.That's because white lies often come from a harmless, even kind-hearted, place. Be careful, though, since lying can quickly get out of control. Tell the wrong kind of lie, or too many, and you'll have quite the tangled web on your hands.

Do We All Lie?

Sometimes it's so much easier (and kinder) to drop a bit of a white lie. Just make sure you cancel in time.

When You Want To Cancel Plans

You always have the right to refuse to share personal information. Sometimes it is more practical to avoid an awkward situation to save yourself with a white lie.

When Asked For Your Personal Info

When Running Late To Work

It's OK to tell them they look great — even if you highly disagree. "We are not obligated to tell the whole truth if it hurts someone’s feelings,"

When Complimenting A Friend's Appearance

It's OK to say that you are fine even if you don't feel good. Not only do you not have to share, but they likely don't have the time to listen anyway.

When Someone Asks How You Are

Where babies come from, or creating a side story to hide family drama.

When Preserving A Kid's Innocence

Mild false truths make it easier for people to get along and are primarily harmless in most cases

When Partaking In Someone's Cooking

Say you're sorry, tell them they're right. If it’s just a little disagreement, there’s no harm in letting [them] have this one, just for the sake of your sanity.

When You Need An Ongoing Fight To End

Sparing people's feelings, smoothing over awkward social situations, and getting you through the worst of them as painlessly as possible.

When Receiving An Odd Gift

Ultimately, the consequences can be measured by considering the balance between any harm prevented and any trust or integrity compromise.

Concl

Think back over your day so far. Have you been entirely truthful with everyone you've met? If not, then join the club. Many of us think telling white lies is OK, and happily do so all day long.
That's because white lies often come from a harmless —…

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

Learning platforms like YouTube use algorithms that often trap us in a loop of familiarity, hindering true learning.

The Algorithmic Loop

Chatbots challenge our thinking by introducing diverse perspectives, pushing us beyond the echo chamber. Learn to ask the right questions. Challenge your views and biases.

The Role of Chatbots

Diversification can enhance one’s ability to adapt to new situations and solve problems by drawing from a wide array of knowledge. On the other hand, specialization can lead to a more focused and detailed awareness within a specific domain

Diversification and specialization

We must actively seek out diversity in our digital diet and embrace the discomfort that comes with new knowledge

The Necessity of Discomfort in Learning

In the pursuit of knowledge, the internet has become a modern-day oracle, a repository of endless information.

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<ol><li>Evaluate current situation</li><li>Vision of what you would like the situation to be</li><li>Plan</li><li>ACTION </li><li>Measure results</li><li>Repeat with new knowledge and experience </li></ol>

Steps

<ul><li>Try to understand the situation. </li><li>What is good what is bad.</li><li>What got you in the situation in the first place.</li><li>What is under your control</li><li>What is not under your control</li><li>How important is it to change the situation. </li><li>What price are you prepared to pay</li></ul>

Evaluate

What is the best possible future, starting from your current situation. Don't be shy go big. Learn to set SMART goals.

Vision

<ul><li>The plan will be reviewed in the future don't spend too much time. </li><li>What resources are available. </li><li>How will the resources help you to reach your goals. </li><li>Plan the steps to get you there. </li><li>Smaller steps are easier to get you going. </li><li>Learn but you don't have to know everything. You will learn and understand more later. </li><li>A workable solution is good enough, perfection is not the goal. </li><li>The next step is the most important of the entire system</li></ul>

Plan

<ul><li>This is where change happen. </li><li>One step at a time. Small steps builds momentum</li><li>Once you see results it will get easier. </li></ul>

ACTION

<ol><li>What is working what is not working. </li><li>What lessons have you learned. </li><li>What do you still have to learn. </li><li>What change is required</li></ol>

Measure Results 

This time with new knowledge and experience. Stop when you are happy with the results and ready for the next opportunity

Repeat

System thinking allows for continuous improvement.

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System to improve any situation

A world-class business education in a single volume. Learn the universal principles behind every successful business, then use these ideas to make more money, get more done, and have more fun in your life and work.

About The Book

<ul><li>Value creation</li><li>Marketing: attracting attention building and demand</li><li>Sales: turning prospective customers into paying customers</li><li>Value Delivery</li><li>Finance</li></ul>

Fundamental Business Processes 

To satisfy and support the following hunan drives. <ul><li>The drive to acquire - physical objescts, sfatus and power. </li><li>The drive to bond - make human connection</li><li>The drive to Learn - aquire knowledge and to grow</li><li>The drive to Defend - protect what you already have</li><li>The drive to Feel - experience, pleaure, exitement and anticipation. </li></ul>

Business Purpose 

Discover the world of business and economics.

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The Personal MBA

A skills audit is a written document that clearly lays out all the skills you currently have and how advanced those skills are. It will also document what skills you need for your dream career, where the gaps are in your skill set and how you gain the skills you need.

What is personal skills audit?

Prepare a list of skills you have gained through expetience education and training.

Make A List of Your Skills 

Rate, How advanced is your skills on a scale of 1 to 10 in each of these disciplines.

Rate your expertise for each of the skills

List them all, it’s important to know which direction you would like to take your career in.

Write a list of jobs you would like to have

FInd job descriptions and identify what the requirements are to be successful in these roles.

Identify the skills required to do those jobs

Spot any gaps between the skills you have, and the skills required to do your dream job

Spot any gaps. 

Consider, education, training and on the job experience to improve and develop your skills.

Look at what you need to do to develop the skills

Being strict with yourself on when you would like to have achieved certain things will help you stay on course

Set yourself deadlines

This will help you stay motivated.

Keep the plan visible

Working on a skills audit is a great way to establish what skills you have and what your level of expertise is for each of the skills. Find out more here.

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Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. In 2021, it falls on July 29.

Earth Overshoot Day

(EOD) is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. The term "overshoot" represents the level by which human population's demand overshoots the sustainable amount of biological resources regenerated on Earth.

In 2020 the calculated overshoot day fell on August 22 (more than three weeks later than 2019) due to coronavirus induced lockdowns around the world.&nbsp;The president of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Footprint_Network" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: var(--link-color);">Global Footprint Network</a>&nbsp;claims that the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: var(--link-color);">COVID-19 pandemic</a>&nbsp;by itself is one of the manifestations of "ecological imbalance".In 1987 this date fell on October 23

Historical EOD

According to Global Footprint Network, throughout most of history, humanity has used nature's resources to build cities and roads, to provide food and create products, and to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_emissions">release carbon dioxide</a> at a rate that was well within Earth's budget. But by the early 1970s, that critical threshold had been crossed: Human consumption began outstripping what the planet could reproduce. According to their accounts, humanity's demand for resources is now equivalent to that of more than 1.7 Earths.

We need 1.7 earths 🌎 

Overshoot occurs when humanity's demand on nature exceeds Earth's biocapacity. In 2021, Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 29.

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Agility is the ability to be quick and graceful. Agile mindsets focus more on core values such as: Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, Being adaptive to change, learning cycles and improvement.An Agile mindset helps to easily overcome obstacles and not get stuck when unexpected events happen.

Agile mindset

Stemming from Toyota's lean manufacturing concept of the 1940s, software development teams have embraced agile methodologies to reduce waste and increase transparency, while quickly addressing their customers' ever-changing needs. A stark change from waterfall project management that focuses on "big bang" launches, agile helps software teams collaborate better and innovate faster than ever before.

History

Scrum is a framework for agile project management that uses fixed-length iterations of work, called sprints. There are four ceremonies that bring structure to each sprint.
<ul><li>Sprint PlanningSprint 
</li><li>DemoDaily 
</li><li>Standup
</li><li>Retrospective
</li></ul>

How scrum works

Kanban is a framework for agile project management that matches the work to the team's capacity. It's focused on getting things done as fast as possible, giving teams the ability to react to change even faster than scrum.

How kanban works

Whatever agile framework you choose to support your software development, you'll need a way to see your team's progress so you can plan for future work or sprints. Agile project estimating helps both scrum and kanban teams understand their capacity. Agile reports show the team's progress over time. And backlog grooming helps project managers keep the list of work current and ready for the team to tackle.

Estimate, report, and plan

Agile leaders focus on the needs of others. They acknowledge other people's perspectives, give them the care they need to meet their work and personal goals, involve them in decisions where appropriate, and build a sense of community within their teams.

What makes an agile leader?

Agile project management is an iterative approach to managing software development projects that focuses on continuous releases and customer feedback.

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Sometimes there are certain situations or challenges that are completely out of your control (such as the power going out on your block) that can prevent you from being as successful as you otherwise might be. But, there's also the possibility that you're holding yourself back because of one of the following twenty-five reasons.

What is holding you back?

"Every single successful person works their butts off to get where they are. It's ok to be lazy if you want to. Just admit it. But don't whine about not being rich and successful, okay?"It might also be procrastination that is all in your head. Use Deepstash to learn more and start working on it.

1. You‘re Lazy

Stop wasting your time asking why other people are successful and you're not.Everyone get to take their turn at hardship. Maybe it's your turn. Instead of complaining, make a positive change that will help you pull out of your slump and find success.

2. You Keep Asking "Why Not Me?"

You'll notice that there's a common theme with successful people. They act on their dreams.Instead of only dreaming and overanalyzing - they start laying the groundwork.

3. You Get Stuck in Your Head

Engaging your customers and influencers is important, but you don't need to spend every free moment on social media.Develop a strategy for social media use and stick to it. Be cautious of not spending more time than is neccsary.

4. You‘re Spending Too Much Time on Social Media. 

Remember, success never happens overnight, and anything that is really worth doing takes time and effort.Look at your unfinished projects an think where you would have been if you have completed them.

5. You Never Finish What Your Start

Whether you're a freelance writer or owner of an eCommerce site that sells basketball shoes, you'll never be successful if you believe that you're not actually a business.

6. You Don‘t Think a Business

Even if it's celebrating a small victory, like getting the contact information of a potential client, you need to find ways that will give your confidence a boost.It usually takes effort and doing the hard work that give actual better self-esteem.

7. You Don‘t Believe in Yourself

You're not owed anything. If you want something badly, you're going to have to go out there and earn it.

8. You Feel Entitled

When you're more concerned about what's trending on social media, as opposed to following up with a lead that has the potential to make some cash, then that's a problem.

9. You Obsess Over Things That Aren't Important

You'll never be able to grow and develop if you stay in one place.

10. You Stay in Your Comfort Zone

Invest in time management and time tracking tools to discover how productive your days really are so that you can make the appropriate changes.

11. You're Not As Productive As You Could Be

The most successful entrepreneurs and business owners aren't fixated on money. They are focused on a making a great product first.

12. You Focus Too Much on Money

Without passion, you won't stay inspired and motivated - especially when times get tough.

13. You're Not Passionate

Work on a becoming a positive thinker by surrounding yourself with positive people and becoming more aware of your self-talk.

14. You‘re a Negative Thinker

Start with being a small planner and a small list maker. One goal and one thing on the list at a time is fine

15. You Haven't Established Goals

Knowing who you are and what skills you have, will guide you to success. What are your likes and dislikes? Start noticing.

16. You Don't Know Who You Are

The thing is, success doesn't come easy. It's a part of the journey. Just because things aren't going your way right now doesn't mean that you should give-up on your hopes and dreams. Baby steps.

17. You Give Up Too Easily

There's a myth that successful businesses were built by just one individual. That couldn't be further from the truth. Jobs, Gates, and Zuckerberg all had assistance from Wozniak, Allen, and Saverin.

18. You Think You Can Do Everything On Your Own

If you're spending too much money in contrast to what you're bringing, then how can you expect to pay your bills and set money aside for emergencies or retirement?

19. You Haven't Managed Your Money Properly

One foot in front of the other, on a daily and consistent basis helps. Timing yourself and doing solid good work and then you're finished works pretty well, too.

20. You're a Perfectionist

Have big enough dreams that will take you years ahead into the future.

21. You Think Too Small

Successful individuals are always looking for ways to enhance their lives by learning new information or skills.Be interested in things that others are doing.

23. You Aren‘t Constantly Learning

Be a connector and someone who includes everyone no matter who they are. Don't be someone who excludes a person that is different or unusual. You never know when that person will be the one you need or the one who needs you - and you can do some good for someone.

24. You Don't Network

I mentioned earlier that you shouldn't give up too early. But, you also need to be aware of when it's time to let go.

25. You Don't Know When to Let Go

I'm guessing that you're holding yourself back because of one of the following reasons.

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Self-Feedback requires no one but yourself. It is not meant to replace feedback you receive from others. The idea is to regularly review your progress and adjust your efforts and strategy on an ongoing basis.

The Art of giving  feedback to ourselves. 

<ul><li>Research shows humans aren’t very self-aware, so we aren’t always that accurate in our self-evaluation.</li><li>We can’t have a full view of the results of our behaviors – our perspective is necessarily limited.</li><li>We tend to see our actions through the lens of our intention, rather than the lens through which others see it.</li><li>We don't know what we don't know. </li></ul>

Do not rely on self feedback exclusively. 

<ul><li>Focus on improvement. If we are thinking about what we are doing well and/or want to improve, we are doing some internal prioritization.</li><li>Examine our motives and results. When we own our outcomes, we naturally begin to ask ourselves what we could have done differently or better.</li><li>Raise our curiosity. Giving feedback to ourselves can lead to us asking for feedback from others.</li><li>Build our confidence. Giveing yourself a pep-talk, is a useful form of self-feedback.</li></ul>

How Self-Feedback Can Help

Here is a four-step process to help you do it.<ol><li>Ask yourself. What went well? What could I have improved? Which parts surprised me? </li><li>Listen to yourself. For self-feedback to be helpful, it must be heard and valued.</li><li>Try something. Now you can test what you have learned! Try something new, based on the new insights. </li><li>Start over. Start with step one again. Doing this loop creates greater self-awareness, and most likely, improved performance and results.</li></ol>

How to Use Self-Feedback

When you actively give yourself feedback and actively seek it from others as well, your performance, results, and confidence will grow, and who doesn’t want those things?Journaling is a good way of keeping record of your feedback sessions and monitor progress.You can also read more about <a href="https://dsta.sh/nyH4D9WhQUrDksvr5">self reflection</a>.

Taking Action 

Feedback from others is important, and but self-feedback – learning from ourselves - is a powerful way to grow, improve, and learn.

Self-Feedback: The Art of Giving Feedback to Ourselves

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