Muhammad Ali passed on yesterday. He left a legacy in and out of boxing. His win record is impressive to say the least. He faced aging and the end of life with courage and poise. The following are a couple of quotes that relate to the biz of you. “Live everyday as if it were… 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
Know What You Value
“Happiness does not come from a job. it comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.” -Mike Rowe, Host of “Dirty Jobs” To know what you value is the cornerstone of managing the biz of you. You get caught up in the currents of your environment… Read More
Use It or Lose It
Without clear direction established by the purpose we give ourselves, time becomes the fire in which we burn. With no drive towards something, our time and energy is used by others for their own purposes. Marketing agencies use advertisement to drive us towards their purposes. Our friends and family can use us to get things… Read More
Make a Damn Decision
If you can’t decide for yourself, someone else will. Indecision is surrendering one’s inalienable freedom to choose. Indecision facilitates purposelessness and if practiced long enough may lead to a feeling of dread for the meaningless of our actions. I’ve been working with my kids on making decisions and following them through. A couple of years… Read More
Working with our Ego-Bound Delusions
Sometimes it seems like everyone is so ready to point out mistakes and put us in our place. Leaders tell us how we are not looking at this or that perspective or dabble in our work and undermine our own efforts. Co-workers tell us our questions are not useful or mask our inquiry with their… Read More
Can’t Lead From the Weeds
There are those in positions of power who get lost in their own egos and need to be in the center of things. These people wind up leading with techniques like micro-managing, helicopter-managing or incessantly dabbling in the workings of their particular organizations and even the work of other organizations. They get placed in these… Read More
Nothing Like Getting Laid Off
Getting laid off, fired or let go in any capacity sucks. It peaks emotions and some folks lose control. Our mental model for life begins breaking down. Our house of cards tumbles down and it’s easy to get overwhelmed with thoughts of, “What am I going to do?” or “I didn’t see this coming.” We… Read More
Soap Operas and Beer
The family went to Ridgway last weekend. We stayed at a hotel and met a most patient friendly hotel manager but the name of Patti. She put our 5-year-old to work helping set up evening drinks for the hotel guests. We got to talking and she mentioned how she came to her current position via… Read More
How Much Kool-aid Are You Drinking?
There’s one thing we all believe in. We all believe in the story we tell ourselves. This story is a composite of our past experiences, what we’ve accepted as truth, stories from others, our continuously unfolding experience, and the reality of our environment we interact with. The problem is this story does not represent the… Read More
Business of You 