It is up to us to feed our brains and there is a plethora of information, stories, experiences and distractions available to us. Just as we feed our bodies with the food we eat we feed our minds with those things we focus on. The ideas we consume add to our mental models thereby enabling… Read More
Embrace the Mistakes
My wife has been working with our daughter on the importance of going through the grading of her homework when the teachers give it back. Of course, our daughter doesn’t like it when she’s wrong. Most people don’t. She take’s it personally and gets down on herself. Being wrong is a misconception and to take… Read More
Trust is Like Cooking
An analogy for trust our five-year old picked up recently is cooking. I love to cook and have taken it on as my chore for our household. The family has grown to like my food. My wife’s family has grown to like the food as well. At least that’s what they tell me. When talking… Read More
Own Up and Put Out
Transformation of inputs into outputs – this is the process by which the goals are obtained. I found the above line while poking around some system thinking pages on Wikipedia. This is a basic idea of not only systems thinking but also the process approach mentioned in a previous post. It’s also key to leadership.… Read More
Trust & Respect
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
What’s Worthy of Your Strife?
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” -Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning What’s the goal… Read More
Process Approach
Enabling the next step by doing things now is using a process approach. This process starts with a recognition of what’s needed by ourselves or others in the future after we get done doing what we have to do. We follow through on the process approach when we take extra care now to enable the… Read More
Biz We Love
“To business that we love we rise betime, and go to’t with delight.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra betime: Middle English “to happen” intransitive verb, to occur What do you love that get’s you out of bed and has you going to it with delight? Perhaps its time to focus on that aspect of your… Read More
Warm Work Relationships
What about work relationships? A friend from South Africa emailed me and asked me follow up on the recent post about “the warmth of our close relationships have more to do with our success than money or fame” After high school or college and prior to retirement we spend the majority of our lives interacting… Read More
We vs You or I
Managing the Biz of You is not as self-centered as it sounds Read More
Business of You 