“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
Scar Tissue
Maintaining relevance in our ever changing world seems hard but is rather simple provided we are open to change and continually seek to understand what, how, and why we do what we do. Read More
Consumption
We must determine if information is fit for use in our lives Read More
A Divorce From Work
‘It’s better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.” –Alfred Lord Tennyson This is true of any relationship including our bodies, minds, friends, lovers and yes even our work. I’ve been struggling with what and how to write about recent events at work. In the last few months, I lost a love… Read More
Striving To Be Normal
I had diabetes as well as high blood pressure and cholesterol. Let me stress the key word in the previous sentence, “had.” Managing the business of you involves ensuring we have resources to do what we need to do with our limited time, energy and attention in this life time. A key resource is obviously… Read More
Interviewing For Our Jobs
How would you react to being interviewed for your own job? Read More
The Leadership Bridge
Leadership, like character, is different for each individual. It doesn’t matter if we are autocratic, authoritative, pacesetting, democratic, coaching, affiliative, or laissez-fair style leaders; we all have our particular approach. Our leadership style may be different between work, home and social lives as well. No matter whether we pick one approach or mix it up… Read More
Communication’s Value
Passionate, principled, and idealistic are attributes that can get us hired in the jobs we want. On the other side of the sword these attributes can get us fired from the jobs we have. It comes down to how we use these attributes and more specifically the energy we derive from them. Each of our… Read More
Business of You 