Matthew Kelly is a fellow Australian based in North America. He is a real force for change in the world of great work and following your dreams. In his 12 books, his consulting work and speaking work (he’s spoken to over 4 million people in the last 20 years!) he addresses how we fulfill the best version of ourselves.
Matthew has sold millions of books, including The Dream Manager, The Rhythm of Life and The Seven Levels of Intimacy. He has also created the The Matthew Kelly Foundation to spread his strategies on how we become the best version of ourselves and to help high school kids figure out what they’re going to do with their life.
In this interview we talk about:
- The insight that people don’t exist for organizations. Organizations exist for people.
- The 12 dream areas: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, psychological, material, professional, financial, creative, adventure, legacy and character
- How to get members of your team to become dream managers for each other
- Why you need your own dream manager, whether you’re the janitor or the CEO
Visit www.floydconsulting.com or www.thedreammanager.com to learn more.
Tech writer and coder. That’s the header on Gina Trapani’s website, and it’s strikes me as exceedingly humble for someone who was named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology in 2009 and 2010.
Gina is the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, the popular blog on productivity in the digital age, which was nominated for Blog of the Decade and led to the bestselling book, Upgrade Your Life.
Even though things were going great at Lifehacker, Gina left after 4 years to find her next challenge. Currently, she is a Project Director at Expert Labs.org, where she’s leading development on ThinkTank, which is an open source crowdsourcing platform that the White House will use.
I could go on and on, but you’ll have to listen to the interview to hear what else Gina is up to.
- Why Gina left Lifehacker, even though she loved her title, her staff, and her paycheck (and how she decided when was the right time to leave)
- Why it’s a good thing when a new job makes you uncomfortable and maybe even makes you cry
- How doing work for free can lead to work that pays
- Being a distracted email-overloaded fool, and how to trick yourself into being productive and get peace of mindGet all the details on Gina’s latest projects at www.ginatrapani.org.
Listen to my interview with Gina Trapani
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“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.”
~ Mother Theresa
I found this quote in this article from Fast Company about ad guy Alex Bogusky. It’s a powerful call to stay the path, stay true to what matters, and pursue Great Work.
One of my favourite blogs is SwissMiss – she’s a treasure trove of the smart, funky and unusual, all connected by the slender and strong thread of design.
She put me on to this fantastic poster by Joey Roth that made me smile:
