Hello! My name is Kenji and welcome to my blog. I'm a writer, coder and right brainer. I write about personal growth, the creative process, career development and web technology. I also practice Vipassana Meditation.
In his audio series, The Psychology of Selling, Brian Tracy tells the story of a top salesman who attributed his success to just one thing: affirmations. Just before the salesman went to meet with a client he would repeat to himself: “I am the best! I am the best! I am the greatest salesperson in [...]
As some of you know, about six months ago I shut down my freelance writing site full-time-writer.com (notice the blank home page) and have let some real good articles on my old site lay dormant without many people visiting them. At first I thought about submitting them for guest posts but as they were published [...]
Why should you learn how to sell ideas? Can’t you just write and let the ideas sell themselves? It’d be nice, but in most cases you can’t. It’s not enough for ideas to spread solely based on their merits. There are countless writers, artists, university professors, and inventors who devote their whole lives to creating [...]
Note: This article appeared on my old website full-time-writer.com. As it most definitely applies to the theme of this blog, I’ve re-published it. Enjoy. The idea that we should turn our weaknesses into our strengths is a common theme in the self-help community. There are countless books and blogs that tell us to focus on [...]
Just because specialists aren’t doing as well as they used to doesn’t mean that being a generalist is easy. In the corporate job market, specialists are still the ones who are picked first while generalists seemed doomed to fight each other for the leftover scraps. There is, however, a growing breed of generalist that doesn’t [...]
As a specialist your job security is vulnerable to market forces and technological progress. The next big innovation will make it possible for a less skilled person to perform the same tasks as you do now. When this happens you’ll be given a choice between a pay cut or the door. If you choose the [...]
Have you ever let your lack of knowledge and skills keep you from doing what you really want to do? If so, you might want to check out this guest post I did at the Skool of Life: How to Teach Yourself to Do Anything. Check it out!
When it comes to your marketable job skills are you a koala or are you a crow? Koalas are super-specialists. Over the past few million years they’ve managed to evolve the capability to eat and metabolize poisonous eucalyptus leaves. This is great for the koalas because it ensures a stable food supply. When it comes [...]
Srinivas Rao blogs about personal development at his blog The Skool of Life. I’ve appreciated his insights both on his website and the myriad sites where he has guest blogged. Recently Srini was kind enough to post a short article here at Unready and Willing. I hope you enjoy it. Persuasiveness, goal setting and accomplishment [...]
I originally published this book review several months ago on my old website full-time-writer.com. I have, however, added a followup to the review where I explain how finding my genius has helped me over the past couple of months. How can you find your genius? How can you find the one thing that you do [...]