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Do less, focus more
A McKinsey colleague, curious about my policing experience, once asked me, "What was the most difficult aspect of leading a police force?" The biggest challenge was not the riots or hooligans. It was that everyone thought that everything was urgent...
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Real Life Is Right Now
Your life = Your time. We know it, but we still don't "get it." Wasting our time somehow seems ok. But wasting our life feels criminal. And yet,...
Allocate Time Wisely
If every Sunday evening fills you with dread, you probably need to rethink your job. If you somehow survive the weekdays only to live on the...
Seize Your Mornings
We love to start new things every New Year because, in our mind, it gives us a fresh start. Yet, isn't every morning an equally good fresh start...
There Are No Shortcuts to Real Change
From 1998 - 2000, the internet promised to change the world. Then in Mar 2000, it all crashed -- we thought, the internet was all hype. Turns out,...
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Simple Steps to Shift Your State of Mind
Do psychiatrists also get depressed or anxious? The answer, unsurprisingly, is yes. Just because you know how your brain works doesn't change its working one bit. So when a psychiatrist hears some bad news, his body activates the fight or flight...
Everybody Needs Downtime
Back in the days when I headed a police organization, we had 1,200 armed policemen in our reserves for handling contingencies. These policemen were supposed to frequently undergo a 2-week intensive training in batches of 100. But for decades, this...
Keep Life Simple
A TikToker Canadian mom got hospitalized after drinking too much water as part of a '75-Hard' challenge. Another influencer died of starvation after eating only uncooked vegan meals for 10 years -- you might have seen that news. What is going on...
The Familiarity Trap
Many professional thieves exhibit a curious behavior pattern -- they follow the exact same methodology and rituals (modus operandi) every time they commit a theft. In fact, policemen even call them Modus Operandi (MO) criminals. But this phenomenon...