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How Do You Know What to Do Next?
Seneca wrote, “do not be unhappy before the crisis comes…” Avoid imagined sorrows and anticipated anxieties. Be ...
Three Reasons to Pick Up a Pen and Write
Introduction
Deciding to leverage your lived moments into wisdom, insight, and appreciation rather than ...
How to Say No (When You Know What You Want)
My Dad taught me the importance of keeping the “end in mind” when managing time. As a result, I pause and think ...
Write Thank-You Notes
Writing personal thank-you notes remains an effective way to stand out in the workplace. Thank-you notes send ...
Brooks Writes Stories: How Did It Go in 2021?
In mid-2017, I started submitting and tracking my fiction writing and posted updates in 2018, 2019 and 2020. How ...
Know What Matters: Baseball, Boundaries and the Astonishing Beauty of Things
The poet Robinson Jeffers[1] worried that people increasingly failed to engage with the world or to ...
Make a Decision and Act: An Ode to Star Trek and Stoicism
Growing up, I enjoyed the science fiction movies Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars, and television ...
Train or Hire? Both.
During my career in forestry, I learned that managing trees is about managing people. Forest resource ...
Checklists Improve Results, Reduce Errors and Save Lives
Four years ago, in September 2017, spacesuit technician Joseph Schmitt passed away at 101. The Economist ...
Brooks on Books: What are You Reading?
When visiting family or eating with friends (or interviewing job candidates), I often ask “what are you reading?” ...
Is This Meeting Necessary?
According to the late author and management expert Peter Drucker,[1] “one either meets or one ...
How to Improve the Communication of Research: Lessons from Forestry and Wood Bioenergy
In 2012, the Forest History Society published “Wood for Bioenergy: Forests as a Resource for Biomass and ...