Tools for Change – May 2024

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Welcome to the latest edition the monthly newsletter, Tools for Change – A Convenient Digest and Curated Collection of Information, Tools and Resources to Help You in Your Life and Work.

Well Said

“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.” - George Bernard Shaw

“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.” - Richard Feynman

"A vision gives a purpose to daily pursuits. A reason to push yourself out of bed each morning and do something. Without this purpose, it's easy to drift." -? Bob Bowman, Michael Phelps' coach

Tools for Being Smarter

How to be recognized as a thought leader on LinkedIn.

Things that don't work.

Smart words from smart people.

Find the savages .

Accountable to Darwin vs. Accountable to Newton.

Tools for Productivity ?

This graphic illustrates 15 popular time management tactics.

The delicate art of mastering work-life balance and productivity - Cal Newport on Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson.

5 tricks to beat procrastination , according a Google’s productivity expert.

How to stick to your long-term goals .

How to lead a more productive life at home and work.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

Every day to make your name, your word, your handshake, your counsel, worth more than the day before. Reputation means influence.

For a good life, think boundaries not balance.

The case for ambition.

No regrets: 5 strategies to get clear about what you want in life.

The most precious resource is agency.

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast , Mountaineer, Entrepreneur, Guinness World Record Holder, and Mom: Jenn Drummond on Becoming BreakProof.

We all have an Everest. Even if you are not an alpinist or mountaineer, we are all on individual journeys, facing ascents and descents as we strive toward our personal and professional peaks. Whether yours is to achieve a big, audacious goal, or to find a way to coexist better with your mother-in-law, how you navigate the journey is up to you. You can choose to stop, to turn around, or to keep going. And you can choose to find meaning in the challenges along the way and embrace the joy in the journey.

And what if you could transform challenges into triumphs? Well, Jenn Drummond has a lot to say about how to do that through resilience, determination, and mindset. Jenn is a Guinness World Record holder for being the first woman to climb all of the 7 Second Summits, and she’s also a successful business owner, international speaker, author, host of the Seek Your Summit podcast, and the mother of 7 remarkable children.

She also helps others create thriving businesses and lasting legacies of their own through her speaking and writing; in fact we’ll do a deep dive into her new book, BreakProof: 7 Strategies to Build Resilience and Achieve Your Life Goals .

I think Jenn’s life and adventures can serve as a blueprint for becoming breakproof. Jenn has a wonderful set of amazing accomplishments in all aspects of life that are models of empowerment and inspiration on how to live a life in full.

Tools for Your Career

"Sunday scaries" are real. Here are 20 ways to make Sundays your favorite day of the week.

How to create an amazing impression at work .

How to know when it’s time to quit your job.

Many job applications are never read by a human. Here’s how to make sure your résumé gets seen .

The secret negotiating power you have when you get laid off.

Tools Just for Fun

“How to choose the streaming services that are right for you ” - an incredibly helpful breakdown of the major streaming services and their costs.

The Greatest Submission Artist - Gordon Ryan.

A delightful Danish comedy about a bizarre lifestyle experiment is?streaming for free .

Simply beautiful .

Universe size comparison.

Throttle therapy and why we ride - the science of motorcycle stress-relief.

Tools for Leadership

Leaders need to prioritize these 3 things to build trust.?

How to help your underperforming staff improve.

My new hire backed out before starting the job.

How to quickly identify someone with bad leadership skills.

Five things Larry David’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ can teach you about leadership (all don’ts).

Tools for Founders

What Austin's tech startup scene taught me about the product and business strategy relationship.

Balancing business success with your own well-being.

Starting a Business – The Tim Ferriss Experiment.

Six mistakes digital health startups make when seeking funding or customers.

The Tory Burch Foundation just launched new resources for female founders.

Cameron Yarbrough coached Reddit, Twitch founders. How he gets behind the founder fa?ade.

Tools for Venture Capitalists

Here’s how Sequoia teaches founders to find product-market fit.

Tools for Relationships

Good news for the socially anxious: People like you a lot more than you think they do.

Watching the same thing brings people together .

A loneliness cure ?- make one friend a year.

Why genuinely connecting with other people (and building instant relationships) has very little to do with speaking.

How to respond to an insult.

3 Words you should never use that may turn people off immediately.

People who excel at starting a conversation always lead with this .

Tools for Health and Wellness

The longest-living people in the world all abide by the “Power 9” Rule .

Tools to dial down stress. ?

The science of magnesium and its role in aging and disease - Found My Fitness with Dr. Rhonda Patrick .

Brain health and diet: Nutrition helps lower dementia risk.

The latest on aging and immortality from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist.

The top four dietary adjustments for optimal brain health.

How to stay mentally young .

Tools for Fitness and Performance

How a runner’s blood test could improve both health & performance.

3 tips for choosing races this spring.

How to optimally plan your tune-up races.

Does it feel harder to exercise right now? Allergies might be to blame.

Tools for Digital Health

UMass Chan Medical School, MITRE plan to open assurance lab to test healthcare AI .

Tools for Being Ethical

What we’re seeing is not telehealth : alarm over doctors using AI and prescribing without seeing patients.

National Academy of Medicine drafts code of conduct for AI in healthcare.

Tools for Mental Health

Don’t let your strengths become your downfall .

Growth comes from discomfort .

Ways to instantly regain your calm in stressful situations.

The surprising psychological benefits of framing depression as a functional signal.

Tools for Creativity

10 Strategies for creative minds to lead with impact.

Design leaders are in their reinvention era.

A rare peek inside Walt Disney Imagineering.

Creativity can?transform your thought process and innovation skills .

Tools for Wealth Management

The Rational Walk on the new edition of?Poor Charlie’s Almanack .

6 tips for lowering your housing costs.

Tools for Investing

The great paradox of the U.S. market! - by Jeremy Grantham.

Benjamin Graham: Big moments on the way to big earnings.

The Best Essay - by Paul Graham.

Gems from two good friends - Richer, Wiser, Happier Podcast: Survive & Thrive with Guy Spier (Part 1 ,?Part 2 )

The psychologist who turned the investing world on its head - by Jason Zweig.

David Einhorn?presented at the Sohn Conference . [He also sat down for an interview after his presentation:?Video 1 ,?Video 2 .]

Tools for AI

DeepMind co-founder warns of AI hype and grifting .

AI will revolutionize higher education (if universities will allow it).

Why people and AI make good business partners.

Tools for Your Practice ?

What are some of the best tools for private practice? Find out here and here .

Tools for Technology ?

Is the ‘Dead Internet’ theory suddenly coming true? This could be a sign.

Tools for Technology & Healthcare Trends

Powering mental health assessments with AI: An SMB’s innovative solution .

Tools from TED

Shedding light on dark matter.

Solving social problems with a nudge.

Tools for Sustainability

Why are sustainable clothes so expensive ?

When trees are planted alongside crops, farms become more sustainable.

A nuclear comeback : Are new reactors the answer?

How a tiny design tweak helped Harper Collins save thousands of trees.

Nike was accused of greenwashing—a judge disagrees .

Tools for Inclusion

Diversity matters even more: The case for holistic impact.

Why white leaders were painfully quiet during Black History Month.

The ‘lazy girl job’ is just another example of white privilege.

The attack on Baltimore's Mayor is a new low for the anti-DEI Movement.

Tools for Advocacy

The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths.

Tools for Writing and For Getting Published

Join my Master Class in Getting Published – All 8 Courses are Free for a Limited Time.

Tools for Public Health

Public Health Foundation

Tools for Global Work and Policy

Center for Strategic and International Studies

APA’s Global Insights Newsletter

Tools for Finding Conferences

May 5-7:?American Telemedicine Association ATA Nexus 2024 ?(Phoenix)

May 5-8:?Milken Institute Global Conference ?(Beverly Hills, CA)

May 6-8:?Fierce Medical Affairs Strategic Summit East ?(Jersey City, NJ)

May 13-15:?Fierce Digital Pharma Engage ?(Newport Beach, CA)

May 14-16:?IHI Patient Safety Congress ?(Orlando)

May 14-15:?Fierce Pharma PR & Communications Summit West ?(Newport Beach, CA)

May 21-23:?Fierce Digital Pharma Innovation Week ?(virtual)

May 21-23:?WSJ The Future of Everything ?(New York City)

May 29-31:?thINc360 – The Healthcare Innovation Congress ?(Washington, D.C.)

May 31-June 4:?American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting ?(Chicago)

Conal Conference Alerts

Neurology and Psychiatry

Tools for Healthcare Career Insights

Curated from Medpage Today .

Tools for a New Gig

Here’s Behavioral Health Tech’s jobs board ?to see?all of the current?opportunities?from the leading companies in behavioral health. If you are looking for a new job and want BHT’s community of hiring companies to seek you out, then join their talent collective as a candidate for free here. Or, if you want access to the central place for job candidates of all levels and roles focused on mental health and substance use tech, then enroll as a hiring company here.

See?who’s hiring ?in health and fitness here .

New Scientist Jobs USA is the best way to take the next step in your career in the life sciences, biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and more.

From 80,000 Hours - There are a variety of ways to contribute to?global priorities research , including?academic research ,?working as a?grantmaker , and?doing charity evaluation.

To browse or search hundreds of recent job postings, visit the?jobs board?in PND , it includes foundation, public charity, education, and nonprofit jobs.

Positions from BioSpace

Academic ?

Biotechnology ?

Diagnostics ?

Government

Healthcare ?

Medical Device ?

Non-Profit ?

Pharmaceutical ?

Research Institute ?

DiversityMD is a Career Job Board and Information Resource for Physicians regardless of age, race, gender, religion, education, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or physical characteristics. They are a “niche” website for Physicians of all levels of practice from Medical Students, Residents, Fellows on up to Medical Directors and CMOs.

Tools to Travel the World

If you love an itinerary, try this?travel-planning app .?

Google Search’s?features?include ?a flight price guarantee badge on what Google thinks is the lowest price. If you book with Google and the price drops, you’ll be refunded the difference.

Flush Toilet Finder

GlobeTips - Tip Calculator & Tipping Guide

ExpressVPN

CBP MPC - Mobile Passport Control

TheFork - great app for booking restaurant reservations in more than 30,000 restaurants in Europe

Xe Currency Converter - Realtime foreign currency exchange rates

Grosvenor Teacher Fellowships From National Geographic

National Geographic professional development grants ?

Earth Expedition ?

Ford Foundation Global Travel & Learning Fund ?

Institute of International Education ?

Google conference and study scholarship ?

Omprakash Ethical global engagement grants ?

Tata Trust Travel grants

Travel Carbon Neutral Luggage Requirements State Department Warnings World Weather Customs Service Travel Documents FAA - Travel Advisory

International Travel Health

A Gym Membership for Your Brain

If you enjoy this newsletter, I suspect you’d enjoy our monthly podcast. Listen on your favorite platform https://pod.link/1281672367 and for a free subscription: https://tinyurl.com/ALifeInFullSubscription

Likewise, if you are not already following my LinkedIn Influencer/Top Voices posts in a group with almost a half-million followers, you may enjoy reading the posts there as well . ?

Tools for Humanitarian Intervention

Please visit our website: https://www.centerforglobalinitiatives.org/ . We’re proud to be a top ranked Great Nonprofit (since 2013!) and to have achieved Platinum Level from GuideStar .

Tools for Racing to Help Others

It’s my perspective that to properly live one’s Life in Full, you must include an aspect of being of service to others. That’s why we founded the Center for Global Initiatives , a 501(c)3 charity which has been a top rated nonprofit every year since 2013, and holds GuideStar’s highest rating of Platinum. An aspect of personally living my life in full has included climbing some of the tallest mountains in the United States and the world and founding Summits for Others , in the flatlands of the Midwest completing multiple charity stair climbs in the tallest buildings in Chicago, and even building custom show bikes for charity auctions , and other, what I like to call Weirdo Challenges . So, for me the natural evolution is venturing into motorsports and the combining of physical with mechanical challenges. For 2024, we plan to raise media awareness of our Center’s work as well as funds for our projects via these videos and at events.

It is a pleasure to announce that Young Automotive is a partner and sponsor of this Project. They are a second-generation auto service provider based in Sturgeon Bay and serving customers throughout Door County Wisconsin. They are recognized as a trusted, community-minded, locally owned business. In fact, their motto is “Changing lives by fixing cars.” Their ASE-certi?ed technicians are experts in servicing domestic, European, and Asian vehicles along with hybrids. They are MAP Accredited and an ASA Member.

Cal’s expertise in preparing the C8 for the racing season has made all the difference --both in the car’s on-the-track performance, and my peace of mind as the driver. Owner Fred Young and Service Manager Nick Krueger’s backgrounds, experience? and automotive knowledge are without compare.? Their commitment to helping others is a testament to their ethics and the shop’s ethos. Fred’s leadership in developing a positive, diverse and supportive workplace culture serves as a model for other entrepreneurs to aspire to.?

And on a personal note, I want to share my heartfelt thanks and deep appreciation for all they do, and to our collaboration in helping others, wherever we can. Visit their website at and be sure to check out the stories on their YouTube Channel , you won’t be disappointed.

I’m honored to have been selected as a 2024 Motorsports Brand Ambassador for Hammer Nutrition . A nice courtesy (thanks Hammer folks!) is that they provided a 15% Friends and Family Discount - just use this link . And hit me up for Hammer goodies at the races I’ll be competing in this year. Here's the unboxing of my Brand Ambassador Kit.

Tools for Connecting

If you would like to see more frequent updates and engage with others, please join the open Facebook groups at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALifeInFull and? https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives

In Closing

And even though I know our readers are very smart, I nevertheless have to say that this newsletter does not provide medical, psychological, legal, financial, healthcare, or any other form of advice. As I have said elsewhere, don’t be a knucklehead.

Big thank you to meta-sourcing sites and folks: BioSpace , Ron Friedman, PhD , Inc. , Farnum Street’s Brain Food , McKinsey & Co. , Medpage , MedScape, Joe Koster from Value Investing World , FirstRound , Get Rich Slowly , Ramit Sethi , Forbes InnovationRx , The Knowledge Project - organized by theme , 80,000 Hours , The Collaborative Fund , Colossus , Sonny Patel , Unmistakable Media , Top Tier ,?Fortune Well , NeuroFlow , Five-Bullet Friday , O’Shaughnessy Asset Management , Health Data Management Group , Fitt , PodcastNotes , SparkType , Budgets Are Sexy , Behavioral Health Tech , Next Big Idea Club – Heleo , Section 4 , Future of Health & Medicine Newsletter , Forbes, Harvard Business Review , Wired , Noah Kagen/AppSumo , Fast Co. , AI and Health , The Hustle , Tim Ferriss , Sparktype , TED , Good Life Project , AI Healthcare News , New York Times , Recomendo , We Study Markets , The Six Minute Mile , Oaktree Capital , Gust , Matter , and Morning Brew - be sure to check them out. And as always, I have no financial, marketing or affiliate relationship with any of the sources noted herein.

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Cheers, and keep in touch,

Chris

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