by Peter Fritz | Inspiration, Life, Work
When I was a kid, our family had one telephone. It was a heavy green device with a rotary dialer, a separate handset with a curly cord, and another cord between the base and the kitchen wall. Because it was fixed to our home (as was everyone’s back then) we...
by Peter Fritz | Inspiration, Life
So here we are again. It’s another year, and we’ve already knocked over the first quarter. Can you believe it? With barely a thought for the year that was, we’re back to the 50+ hour work weeks – paying bills, fixing things around the house we...
by Peter Fritz | Inspiration, Work
There are dozens of ways to improve productivity and I’m betting you’ve read about most of them. Entire industries exist just to help us squeeze more out of our already bloated schedules – from software and boot camps to gurus and gadgets.I’ve...
by Peter Fritz | Inspiration, Life
You’re going to die one day; perhaps quite soon. Maybe even this year. And when that day comes and you’re laying in hospital under sheets that smell of bleach, I promise you that all the distractions you’ve indulged and the things you’ve...
by Peter Fritz | Inspiration, Life, Work
In June 2005, Steve Jobs gave his famous Stanford University commencement speech. In it, he said:“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have...
by Peter Fritz | Inspiration, Work
A quick Google search reveals most of us are stressed about work. Depending on whose research you read, around half of us love our jobs about as much as dental work. We’re leaving our families each morning to commute to a place we don’t like, to do things...
