We are addicted to positive feedback. We are addicted to being unique and different from everyone else. We crave standing out. Our addiction is fed by advertisements, information and products we consume. Materialism is not the problem. By going away from material or technology we stand out from the crowd once again and find disappointment… Read More
Embrace Your Ignorance
Ignorance is nothing more than a lack of knowledge or information. By accepting and understanding our ignorance we enable ourselves to gain knowledge and information. A child is naturally ignorant and does not fear or judge their ignorance. As we grow up, our peers judge us by our knowledge of things. It allows us to… Read More
Improving with Feedback
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man.” “True nobility is being superior to your former self.” Earnest Hemingway as quoted by Harry Hart in The Kingsman This quote captures the essence of continual improvement within the framework of Managing the Business of You. Improvement is about learning. It’s about increasing our… Read More
Finding Reflections of Ourselves
Last week we spoke of balancing the shadow and light within ourselves. Our ego-centric view is a tool. Like all tools we need to use our ego to the extent it’s useful. Being in the center of the universe can get in the way of our continual improvement and integration with our environment and the… Read More
Who’s Your Leader?
I had the opportunity to attend a Situational Leadership Training course through work this week. The situational leadership model is a leadership theory by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. Their theory combines recognition of individuals competence and commitment through four distinct cycles with a task based approach to helping people maximize their potential. The information… Read More
Our Goal of Eating an Elephant
At the grand tactical level it is extremely helpful to be specific on how we may achieve our goals. It is beneficial to think at a low level and list out all the steps to manage the goals that we choose just as much as we orient our goals to our objectives at the higher… Read More
Seeking the Best in Ourselves
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; ‘these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions’; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a… Read More
A Valued Life
Welcome to BizOfYou (BOY) is about living A Valued Live which is founded upon the axioms of: Becoming and Being alive requires us to act on our decisions. Our values drive our decisions You live the life you value A valued life is thriving through integrity. It’s about understanding ourselves as a system of elements just… Read More
Business of Who
WELCOME This blog is a look into our lives through the lens of business systems thinking. As individual businesses, our primary customer is our future self along with those we interact with and our environment. Our product is who we are now. We are the customers of our past decisions and actions. The service we… Read More
Who?
Who looks out for the business of you? If you aren’t looking out for your business then who is and are they meeting your expectations for your own life? When we allow others to manager our business we fall prey to the ups and downs of daily existence and the success and failure of those… Read More
Business of You 