“We are one decision away from changing our life.” Mel Robbins A friend of mine shared with me this morning a brief video explaining how motivation is garbage. Something else that resonates with the Biz of You is Mel’s comment about, “Your life comes down to your decisions and if you change your decisions, you’ll… Read More
We lose ourselves running away from our problems
The other morning my wife and I were admonishing our eight year old daughter for some misbehavior. My daughter’s coping mechanism is to shy away. She walked away from the breakfast table as she didn’t want to deal with the reprimand. We were telling her that she has to deal with the problem, to fix… Read More
Always Updating
As I tell my son and daughter, “I want to be learning to the end of my days” and “everyday we should be improving.” This is true for everything we do. I recent came across a blog post indicating that the most important pages on a website is the about pages. This person summarized “How… Read More
Adjust Your TEA
Managing our biz is a daily affair and includes adjusting our use of TEA as appropriate to our particular situation. Read More
My Old Friend
A couple of very good friends like the following letter to an old friend. I hope you will as well. Death my old friend. You are always so quiet but always there ready to give guidance unlike your sibling, life, who knows no end to expressing the desire to connect and grow. We walk through… Read More
The Unspoken Quality Tool
An experienced auditor uses this tool to elicit more information than necessary. Quality engineers use it during investigations of anomalies to bring pertinent information to the surface. Quality inspectors use it during source inspections at a supplier to give the space for details not captured in the paperwork. And, quality managers use this tool to… Read More
Problem Principles
The questions we ask about our problems once we have a clear picture of the issues directly effect the solution and potential outcomes Read More
Time to Evolve
Adopting network thinking evolves not only ourselves but all of our interactions at work and home. Read More
Knowledge Bullies & System Prophets
The amount of confirmation and negativity bias used by leaders to sway personnel to their point of view is alarming some days. In a meeting they may even have someone pull up data and looking at one data point tell everyone how it shows their supposition is correct. Occasionally, someone who has some inclining of… Read More
Master Of Our Biz
No matter where we are at along the spectrum of managing our lives, we all have the capacity to become the masters of our biz Read More
