Comments on: Quitting To Win

By: niki

niki — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:13:09 +0000

A very timely article right when I need it the most!
Thank you Celes, I sure learn a lot from this article.
Great & insightful writing as usual!

By: Connie

Connie — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:08:34 +0000

I love it! Thank you for writing this! It serves as a good reminder to consider why we’re doing what we’re doing! (:

By: PluginID Turns One! Baie Dankie

PluginID Turns One! Baie Dankie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:27:11 +0000

[...] are so many people I want to thank that I’ve resorted to linking to their latest blog posts in this sentence; in fact, [...]

By: Law of Diminishing Returns

Law of Diminishing Returns — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:09:53 +0000

[...] If you are not conscious of the point of diminishing returns, you will fall into the trap of investing more input then your return is worth. That results in ineffective usage of your energy. This is something neurotic perfectionists are often guilty of. They keep hammering at a task, refusing to let go of it even till the last minute, because they want to beat them into perfection. In trying to fulfill their satisfaction of having a ‘perfect’ or near perfect outcome, they jeopardize the bigger picture. The effort they invested in trying to get the last few nuggets of output in place could have been more effectively spent in generating a lot more output in tasks. This is why quitting to win is so important. [...]