A self contract is an agreement between your present and future self about what’s most important to you. It may be written or simply internalized. It draws together the critical aspects of yourself and applies it to what you want out of life. It requires a vision of yourself in the future and an understanding… Read More
Being More Human
A friend of mine shared a Fortune Magazine article with me. In Humans are Underrated (http://fortune.com/2015/07/23/humans-are-underrated/) by Geoff Colvin, there are some excellent observations and feedback we can learn from and continue adapting to our modern age. Technology is replacing jobs around the world. Think of robot surgeons, cars and truck drivers. Software can research legal… Read More
Time Leveraging Our Actions
From Mignon McLaughlin’s The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook, “Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound Interest!” “What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.” Compound interest is the price paid for the use of borrowed money… Read More
What is your Grand Strategy?
“It’s not what the vision is, its what the vision does.” Peter Senge The imagination is an amazing thing. It allows us to see the future and reconstruct the past. It helps us to understand what we can not directly experience while creating the folly of misunderstanding or miscommunication. It can give us pleasure and… Read More
An Honest Day’s Work
Just because we show up to work doesn’t mean we work the full day. We all have inefficiencies. There are distractions. There are interruptions that take our focus off the task at hand. In science, there are no methods of work that are 100% effective. The second law of thermodynamics which deals with disorder and… Read More
Giving Ourselves Mental Workouts
In order to get the most out of our mental assets, we need to manage those factors that affect them. Our beliefs about ourselves and how we work can directly affect our success. Specifically, our beliefs about our intelligence and memory are of interest here. Is our intelligence something that is given to us through… Read More
Unexpected Learning
I was cooking in the kitchen as I normally do on the weekends when I over heard my son saying to my wife, “fuss over me.” “Mom, fuss over me.” Being four years old his mind is pretty straight forward. I tend to be more of the disciplinarian in the family and my wife is… Read More
Seeking Emergent Properties
There have been some people who have questioned why I chose to have a picture of water waves in my header. It’s quite simple. The standing wave in a river is an excellent example of emergent properties. Emergent properties are extrinsic in nature. They unfold or reveal themselves like a wave in a river. The… Read More
The Gift of Accepting our Sexual Nature
Along with the power of our butt, getting moving, exchanging energy and our health in general, another physiological asset is our sexuality. Sex is a fundamental energy of life no matter what we are told by our peers, society or religions. Reproduction is the basis of perpetuating life. This is a biological fact. Sexuality has… Read More
Our Health is an Asset
Whether young or old, when we are active we bring more energy and spirit to our lives. Health emerges from our activities. The types of movements we partake in affects how we think. When we move, do we move with all aspects of our body? When we walk, do we walk with just our… Read More
Business of You 