Are you asking questions of yourself? If not, why not? If you think you are not where you “should’ be in life then ask yourself different questions. What happens when we feel that we are not where we “should” be is we have allowed a contradiction to germinate in our minds. As Francisco d’Anconia… Read More
Resources to Ready
Do you know what resources you can directly manage to bring about your vision in life? There is a fundamental set of resources that we all work with. First, time is a resource. There is known limited amount of time in each day and there is an unknown limit to our time in our life. … Read More
Resource Management
Who’s managing our resources if we are not? Is it our significant other? Is it our family? Is it our work? Is it our addictions? It’s an interesting question that implies control. More specifically, if we don’t exercise self-control, others will exercise control over us. When we let others manage us it sets up a… Read More
Caustic Opportunities
Joe’s comment to the last post got me thinking. There are opportunities that present themselves all the time to us. They range from little gains to big wins and from little distractions to those that burn up our available time with little to no gain. The key to our success is to recognize the down… Read More
Wisdom to say No
In discussing my blog with my niece, she had an excellent take on the business of you: “It takes a lot of control and wisdom to say ‘no’ to things and ‘yes’ to others, knowing which will be good in the long run. Looking not at the immediate profit, but what a certain situation might… Read More
Roots of Improvement
Many self-improvement schemes are simply the means to make money for the author, originator or seller. Some deal with weight loss, increase of sexual prowess, and of course the never-ending pursuit of success and fiduciary fecundity. However, many lack the understanding of the underlying factors that produce these desirable things. Additionally, each individual, each system,… Read More
Personal Management
It’s up to us to manage our personal business. So what does it mean to manager the business of ourselves? Our personal business management is the coordination of our efforts to accomplish something using our resources effectively and efficiently. It involves planning, organization, directing, resourcing and controlling ourselves in order to produce the results we… Read More
Do you manage yourself?
I’ll wager you do but may not know it. How well you manage is a question for you to answer. Here’s a consciousness raiser, you are a business and it’s up to you to manage the business of you. Often when people think about business, they think of profit, product, services and the dehumanizing side… Read More
Who?
Who looks out for the business of you? If you aren’t looking out for your business then who is and are they meeting your expectations for your own life? When we allow others to manager our business we fall prey to the ups and downs of daily existence and the success and failure of those… Read More
Business of You 