Upgrade Your Life Operating System read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 4 minutes Your life, like everything in the world, is a system. By learning how these systems work, you can leverage them to produce the results you want. This is the essence of systems thinking. Systems thinking is a way of transforming the complexity around you into manageable visuals, ideas, and concepts that can be broken down, analyzed and improved. It’s about understanding how parts influence one another within a...
14 days ago • 3 min read
You need to answer these questions! read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 4 minutes Success is a journey that constantly requires clarity, focus and strategy. It is not uncommon to drift sometimes and miss the way. Here are twenty refined questions to help you evaluate your approach, align your actions with your goals and move closer to meaningful results. 1. Are You Busy or Productive? Take an honest look at your work. Are your actions moving the needle, or are they just filling the day? 2....
21 days ago • 2 min read
Balance Stocks and Flows: Why You Feel Stuck (and How to Fix It) read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 4 minutes Let’s talk about something that might be holding you back: the balance between stocks and flows in your life. Stocks are the things you build over time—like savings, skills, fitness or knowledge. Flows are the inputs and outputs—how fast things come in or go out, like the money you save each month or the energy you spend every day. When these are in sync, life feels smooth. Progress...
28 days ago • 2 min read
Break the Loops read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 3 minutes Here are some great ideas to help you improve this week.. Today at a Glance: Action: Break the loops. We all have loops. They don’t start as problems. In fact, many loops begin as strategies. They start out as ways to make progress, build skills or protect ourselves. But somewhere along the way, they stop helping and start holding us back. Loops feel safe. They feel productive. But they rarely move us forward. What is a Loop? A...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
The Most Powerful Paradoxes of Life read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 4 minutes Here are some great ideas to help you improve this week.. Today at a Glance: The world, and especially personal growth is full of contradictions. Here’s a collection of 20 powerful paradoxes. The Most Powerful Paradoxes of Life It’s tempting to see the world in black and white. It feels safer to assume that everything is predictable, that life can be neatly mapped out. But the truth is, the world, and especially...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
10 ways to become extraordinary read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 4 minutes In a world that wants you to be average, here are ten powerful, actionable ideas from award winning author James Clear on becoming extraordinary. Today at a Glance: Quotes: 10 ways to become extraordinary #1: Make good decisions It's hard to save poor early decisions with good late decisions. It's hard to write a best-selling book if you chose an unpopular topic. It's hard to build a happy marriage if you married an...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
10 Powerful Ideas to Transform Your Life read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 6 minutes Here are some great ideas to help you improve this week.. Today at a Glance: Inspiration: Powerful Ideas to Transform Your Life Derek Sivers is best known for selling CD Baby for $22 million at a young age and for writing the bestselling entrepreneurship book “Anything You Want.” In his new book How To Live, he shares 27 short lessons on how to live life. Here are 10 lessons and excerpts from the book:...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
The Two types of Knowledge, Possibility of better, & More read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 3 minutes Here are some great ideas to help you improve this week.. Today at a Glance: Motivation: The possiblility of better Story: The two types of knowledge Quote: Progress through discomfort The possiblility of better: Perfect closes the door. It asserts that we’re done, that this is the best we can do. Worse, perfect forbids us to try. To seek perfection and not reach it is a failure. Better...
2 months ago • 2 min read
How to Handle Mistakes & 5 Lessons From being Wrong read on kayodeomotoye.com read time 4 minutes Here are some great ideas to help you improve this week.. Today at a Glance: How to Handle Mistakes. 5 Lessons from Being Wrong How to Handle Mistakes Mistakes are an unavoidable part of life. Even the most skilled people make mistakes, because there are so many factors beyond our knowledge and control that impact our success. This is true especially when we’re pushing the boundaries of knowledge...
2 months ago • 6 min read