What if we managed our lives as successful businesses do? How are businesses similar to our individual lives? Businesses have a purpose and provide products and/or services to customers in exchange for goods, services or money. They manage resources to achieve the objectives they set to bring about the vision they have. Successful businesses plan… Read More
Out To Lunch
When was the last time you took yourself our for lunch? Not because no one else was available. Not because there was extra time in your schedule. Not because you needed to grab something on the go. Rather, when did you schedule time for yourself, go sit down, relax and enjoy some good food? It’s… Read More
Embrace Your Ignorance
Ignorance is nothing more than a lack of knowledge or information. By accepting and understanding our ignorance we enable ourselves to gain knowledge and information. A child is naturally ignorant and does not fear or judge their ignorance. As we grow up, our peers judge us by our knowledge of things. It allows us to… Read More
Gathering Our Attention
Music is a wonderful way to gather our attention, focus and center ourselves. My wife and I sat down to relax with our cup of coffee after breakfast this last weekend and listened to some music as we usually do. This particular morning the kids didn’t interrupt us with nattering or idle talking. We were… Read More
Words on Purpose
“The great and glorious masterpiece of men is how to live with a purpose.” – Michel de Montaigne “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” -Eleanor Roosevelt “Living in a way that reflects one’s values is… Read More
Finding Our Serenity
How we respond, not react, to the issues presented to us determine how well we resolve it. Last week the doctor working with my daughter called my wife who was on travel for work. In the call she communicated our daughter has a tumor with hardly any more information. Rightly so, my wife called me… Read More
Prune the Drama
Our thinking and feeling is not the problem. Our thoughts and feelings about our thinking and feeling is the problem. Feelings and thoughts arise without our direction but often related to our current focus. Our judgement of our thoughts, feelings and experiences is what generates the stress and problems in our lives. Many of the… Read More
Loosen Your Expectations
Things do not work out as we expect. When setting up a surprise or gift for someone, their reactions and reception of our energies will be in line with their experience and not ours. Others simply do not think as we do. We all experience different universes. Over the holiday break I observed my daughter… Read More
Keep the Head Up
Having a little more time over the holidays affords a time for reflection. A year ago, I posted Managing Our Time and Distractions and linked to the YouTube video, Look Up. I still think it’s a good video. Others do as well as it gained another 11,000,000 views in the last year. Some of the… Read More
Biz of You Inspirations
I’ve had people inquiry about what inspired me to write about the Biz of You. As the end of the year is a good time to reflect on past connections, here some of the ideas and paradigms forming the basis of the biz of you. Aside from relating my recent experience as a quality… Read More
Business of You 