Whether you are in the 5th grade, a job or building your life, you are accountable for managing the biz of you. My daughter had her second 5th grade conference. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. My wife filled me in and to say the least my daughter is doing extremely well. So I sent… Read More
Working With Debilities
It’s hard to write when you can’t focus. It’s hard to write when you can’t sit for more than 5 minutes at a time. Struggling with a 7mm shift of my lumbar spine over my sacrum, the pain medications, muscle relaxers, and nerve desensitizers screw with my physical resources as well as my attention and… Read More
Balance
The biz of you is much to do about balancing both short and long term perspectives. Your future self is your customer. Found on http://poemsquoteswords.tumblr.com/
What’s Your Treasure?
Will Durant’s poses some basic questions in his book, On the Meaning of Life: What is the meaning or worth of human life? What meaning does life have for you? What keeps you going? What help — if any — does religion give you? What are the sources of your inspiration and your energy? What… Read More
The Biz of Life
It’s so easy to get lost in the chaos, trials and tribulations of work. We get absorbed and overwhelmed. Stress consumes us and we allow our lives to be eaten away by working extra to “stay ahead.” The fact is there is no staying ahead of it. In our modern world of push, push, push,… Read More
Following One’s Own Advice
It’s time to follow some of my advice. I’ve posted many times about the importance of incorporating and Honoring Our Feedback we get in our lives. If we do we find ourselves Improving. With truly Enriching Feedback we can get past our bubbles of ego and get on with our real tasks that fulfill our purpose.… Read More
Biz of Travel
There’s a most excellent blog about being on the open road, living life to it’s fullest while traveling from place to place in Europe. For more than six months, she’s been traveling in Europe on a shoe string budget and sharing her gastronomical, sight-seeing adventures. I have only positive things to say about her blog… Read More
Contracting Yourself
As we mentioned in a previous post, if we don’t use perks at work for our own benefit our jobs will use perks to help us work more and more to their benefit. If we are not careful perks at works can turn us into slaves without our awareness of it. Think about the perks… Read More
Internal vs External
I had a most excellent conversation with a fellow martial artist about balancing our internal and external work. For the last two years, he’s been focused on his job, rebuilding his house after the floods, and dealing with his mother passing away. As he described his focus and use of energy over the last couple…
Business of You 