A while ago, Unsplash came out with this nifty MacOS Menu Bar utility app. Every day it changes out your desktop wallpaper with a random photo from the Unsplash vault. If you don’t like a day’s photo, you can easily click refresh to grab a new one.
Here’s the desktop wallpaper it served up for my iMac today:
P.S. And, speaking of Unsplash, here’s a page full of holiday and wintery images if you want to get your iPhone, iPad, et al. into the holiday spirit.
Kieran Snyder with an excellent twitter thread on leadership. Here’s part of it:
The best leaders lead from the front when things are tough. They are visible, accountable, and own the challenge + their own failings. Sometimes the only way to guide or coach things to improvement is to live in the difficulty yourself.
The best leaders lead from the back when things are going great. When things are going great, that’s a sign that the organization knows what it’s doing, and you’d be foolish to mess with the day-to-day. Your job in that case is giving credit + setting up the next challenge.
Ineffective leaders often make the choice backwards: they stay in the background when things are difficult, hoping someone else will figure it out. They get in front when things are going well, hoping to take credit. No one wants to follow these leaders for long.
(Via Sean Sperte.)
Jocko Willink’s chapter on Focus from his new book, Discipline Equals Freedom, is so awesome and so intense.
Sometimes, in day-to-day life, you can lose track of the long term-goal. It fades from your vision. It slips from your mind. WRONG.
I want that long-term goal to be so embedded in my mind, that I never lose sight of it. EVER. […]
Embed that long-term goal in your mind. Burn it into your soul. Think about it, write about it, talk about it. Hang it up on your wall. […] Every day: Do something that moves you toward that goal — that keeps that goal alive and in sight and in focus.
Also, check out Jocko’s special episode on the Tim Ferris Show where he shares topics from his book such as success mindsets, overcoming laziness and procrastination, behaviors that lead to failure, and more. I love his advice for how to stop procrastinating.