My wife and I have been working with our five year old boy on trust and respect. Recently, we punished him for some negative behavior at school. As it was something the school had to call us about, we choose to take away his Legos until he can earn our trust back. I also let… Read More
Designing Future Happiness
I came across a quote on Tumblr that was interesting. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; It is something you design for the present.” I asked myself, “have I designed my present happiness” and “am I designing my future happiness?” Looking back, I intended to be where I’m at, not specifically mind… Read More
Feedback on Integrity
This week was the audit of my company’s business management system. Today is the last day of the audit where we receive the final report indicating any major or minor findings and observations. To help my eight-year-old daughter understand what an audit is like I asked her what her standardized tests were like. She told… Read More
Do you have a leadership gap?
I’m a division quality manager and helping the organization prepare for an audit. Next week we are being re-certified to the requirements of AS9100, the world-wide Aerospace Business/Quality Management System Standard. Stress rises for many people when they are interviewed during an audit. An auditor who you don’t know comes in and asks questions about… Read More
Why This Blog?
This blog exists for the the singular purpose of helping us think like business so we can change our world and the environment we live in for the better. I think you will enjoy it. I’m having fun in creating it. Each post is between 250-500 words and easily absorbed in our hectic lives. They… 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
Growing Up Never Ends
It’s time to grow up and accept we don’t know everything, start asking questions and learning how to be better. Read More
Providing for Tomorrow
We all have made choices favoring the short-term instead of taking into account the long-term consequences of our actions. Some of us do this regularly and a few fail to look beyond what’s in front of them. It’s easy to do when our societies push short-term gratification as it benefits the company selling this… Read More
Business of You 