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Kate’s Blog
Sharing my personal thoughts here after events I encounter in my life or in society, and impressions from books and movies. It’s generally my journal – the old style.
Featured Articles
Influence Does Not Start with Posts. It Starts with an Organized Mind
Lasting influence depends on communication, but communication depends on something deeper: an organized mind. Before we learn to speak well, we must learn to think well. The difficulty in expressing one's thoughts, in finding arguments to defend the position, or even...
What Hard Times Taught Me About Self-Promotion, Systems, and Self-Awareness
I picked up Hard Times by Charles Dickens with a simple goal: to improve my vocabulary. I did not expect the book to challenge my behavior, my beliefs, and the way I present myself to the world. Yet, through its exaggerated and often uncomfortable characters, the...
Should we give our students a chance
After years in coaching and training, I have noticed that successful mentors not only pick and choose students (they don't take everyone who can pay), but they are also very strict with the criteria. For a long time, I was trying my best to give everyone a chance, and...
Survivours
Sometimes I wonder: how is it even possible for some people to survive if they go with no life vision day after day, week after week, year in, year out? Desiring something great, but unable to achieve it, because of vanity. How do they survive? Their days are busy...
Never watch a video if..
Is it a secret that we are programmed on what to watch? And this is dangerous. Have you ever noticed that we are instructed and guided by algorithms on YouTube and by program directors on TV on what we are going to watch? I bet you have. Even on a subscription model,...
Counting my days
If you count your days.. How many days do you have left to live with a life expectancy of 70 years? I have 9K days plus something. Which is a bit over 25 years. Got me thinking. I have read in "The Almighty Formula" that to live an effective and fulfilling life, we...
No Jackpot in Social Media — Except One
A dozen lonely people sit in a row of slots and pull the lever of the slot machine over and over again, mesmerized by the information on monitors. The brain is eagerly waiting for this information. The brain knows that the probability of getting three strawberries in...
When AI becomes your enemy
It took me months to teach my students to use AI for batch production, brainstorming, writing. It might take me ages to unteach them. AI is very important time saving tool. I thank God for the opportunity to live in the era when AI is born and became massively...
Latest Posts
Weaponized Reading in Life’s Battlefield
The deadly sting of the Russia-Ukraine war has touched my family. My first cousin, dear brother, with whom we grew up in the same jampacked soviet appartment, survived the terrible 90's and navigated our adolescence years until I left to work abroad, was sent to his...
Influence Does Not Start with Posts. It Starts with an Organized Mind
Lasting influence depends on communication, but communication depends on something deeper: an organized mind. Before we learn to speak well, we must learn to think well. The difficulty in expressing one's thoughts, in finding arguments to defend the position, or even...
Can we achieve any goal without discipline?
Obviously there are people who achieve goals not through discipline but other values, like passion, action and persistence. There might be more. But to my opinion, people with those values are like hunters or wild animals attempting to achieve goals. Hunting is not...
What Hard Times Taught Me About Self-Promotion, Systems, and Self-Awareness
I picked up Hard Times by Charles Dickens with a simple goal: to improve my vocabulary. I did not expect the book to challenge my behavior, my beliefs, and the way I present myself to the world. Yet, through its exaggerated and often uncomfortable characters, the...
Should we give our students a chance
After years in coaching and training, I have noticed that successful mentors not only pick and choose students (they don't take everyone who can pay), but they are also very strict with the criteria. For a long time, I was trying my best to give everyone a chance, and...
I finally got my podcast
Favourite Quotes
Read moreYour life story and the knowledge you have acquired have a certain market value—provided they are presented in an original way. Moreover, their market value can be enough to support you financially for the rest of your life.
Author Unknown, the Idea is often attributed to Brian Tracey’s teachings
Read moreKeep in mind that if you do something quickly and poorly, people will forget what you did quickly and remember what you did poorly. If you do it slowly and well, people will forget what you did slowly and remember what you did well.
Sergei P. Korolyov – Academic, lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer behind the USSR’s early space triumphs
Read moreWhen you work for money the results are short-lived. When you are motivated to become the best you can be, you leave a lasting legacy.
(Excellence the Key to Elevation – Dr. Sunday Adelaja )
Read moreShow me your daily plan and schedule, and I’ll tell you where you’ll end in 25 years.
Sunday Adelaja, The Almighty Formula
Read moreWriting isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.
Stephen King, On Writing
Read moreIf you are afraid of failing, then you are not serious about succeeding.
(Dr. Sunday Adelaja – The Mighty Formula)
Thoughts
If the first book you have written is done by AI — you have never written a book
Looking for shortcuts makes you end up mediocre.
Shortcuts are not the same with more effective ways
People are living a mediocre life because they try to shrink, to be small and invisible, so that people don’t see them fail.
A lazy person = Someone who repeatedly chooses comfort over progress
We need to stop treating social media as fun.
It’s a powerful transformation tool.
Discipline = the ability to keep agreements with yourself.