Do you know you the point beyond which you are unable to produce a desired or intended result? There’s a point when we don’t have enough energy to focus due to not enough food or sleep. There’s a level of alcohol past which we lose the ability to maintain control of our actions. There’s point… Read More
What is Accountability?
In the simplest biz of you terms I can think of accountability is saying what you do and doing what you say. This taking responsibility for your actions in a manner that others can count is the basis of integrity. It is fundamental to managing the business of you as stated in a previous post… Read More
Do You Answer?
We all look for answers outside of ourselves at times. We look in books, follow spiritual gurus, seek truth in relationships, religions and elsewhere. Sometimes we go back, reread, review and rehash things over and over agin. Why? Did we actually learn? Were the answers we found not good enough? Did they not fill our… Read More
Are you overwhelmed?
If you are overwhelmed, why? Have you accounted for the things pushing you into your overwhelmed state? Perhaps you should. We can get to the overwhelmed state easily when we don’t take control of our own lives. We become pray to external forces when we allow others to push us into doing things not aligned… Read More
Who’s your Master?
Last time we spoke of our negative and positive motivations. We have fear and hope. We avoid somethings and seek others. Knowing what motivates us is a key component of managing the business of you. It’s also critical for organizations external to us if they want to manage their business. Our fears and hope are… Read More
What’s your Motivation?
We are motivated by fear or hope. We either avoid things we don’t want to deal with for whatever reason or move towards the things we want. Our decisions and actions are driven by our desire whether negative or positive. There is an enormous amount of research in psychology and economics about our motivations. The… Read More
Time to Correct Ourselves
We received the final audit report yesterday. My company received a few findings from the AS9100 audit. A finding is a lapse in conformance or in other words a situation where we don’t do what we say we do or not doing what we are expected to do. A finding shows our integrity is not… Read More
What the Balance of your TnR Account?
Did you know you have a Trust and Respect account? I didn’t until this last week when a discussion with HR and an employee brought it into my mind. We were discussing being a team instead of a working group and the difficulties of dealing with different people. Our actions affect the accounts we hold… Read More
Creating Bright Lines for Ourselves
Last time we talked about our daily problems and seeing them for what they are, a disconnect between what happens and our expectations of what happens. We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we believe or want them to be. We interpret our experience to fit the mold of our mental… Read More
Why do problems abound?
Everyday we are faced with problems. Some are as benign as making sure to use the restroom when we are out and about. Some are full-fledged issues that required our full attention. Then there are the problems that haunt us day after day like the time we spend at work instead of our family, sexual… Read More
Business of You 