All I Want For Christmas
Perhaps the world’s most popular Christmas song is Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas”. The song dominated the charts when it was released in 1994, and it’s since remained a holiday staple for every Christmas playlist. But do you know how long it apparently took to write the iconic song? 15 minutes. That’s all. […]
What example is set?
You can tell a lot about the culture of an organisation when someone resigns. Take special note of how key personnel respond to their announcement. Do they focus immediately on the individual and seek to foster their connection? Or is their focus on how they may personally benefit, as if the person has already left? […]
Weekly sprints
There are many benefits to planning each week around a specific project. There’s a lot you can do in a week. It’s enough time to tackle something meaty and make things happen. A week is a good amount of time for us to grasp. If we set ourselves a deadline for one week away, we […]
Giving people ownership
Creating change with other people comes down to one thing – aligning incentives. And there’s no better way to align incentives than to give people ownership of their actions and decisions. Consider how much more invested you become in an initiative when you’re able to influence the outcome on your own terms. The key to […]
Done is better than perfect
The value of a product or service can only be realised if it is delivered to the world. This means the most important thing you can do is let go of what you create. However, our perfectionist tendencies can make this really hard. We keep wanting our work to be just that little bit better. […]
Prioritising relationships
At Quarter Life Academy, we focus on three areas of life – career, health and relationships. This is because these areas have outsized potential for the rest of your life when effectively considered early. Career is the most common topic that people want to discuss, as our 20s and 30s are marked by big transitions […]
Your elevator pitch
If you have an idea or started an initiative, are you able to communicate this clearly to someone in the time it takes to ride the elevator together? It is important that you can for two reasons. First, it helps you to fully understand what you want to do or are trying to do. The […]
Text replacement on mobile
Do you ever need to type a long string of text on your mobile, like your email address? And every time it feels like ages to type it in, and you usually make a mistake and have to retype it? Well here’s something that you’ll love. There is a function on your mobile called “text […]
Confirming engagements
It’s amazing how much your schedule can change around life, rather than the other way around. This means that many of the engagements you agree to won’t happen on the day and time that’s set. Typically it’s because something more pressing appears and the meeting needs to be rescheduled. But it could simply be because […]
Meritocracies
We like to think that the best ideas and decisions will rise to the top in a group. Unfortunately, many environments that you’ll work in aren’t a meritocracy. That’s because everyone has their own interests, and what’s best for the group may not be best for the individual. It all depends on who has the […]