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
Christmas in our Interactions
What happens to the biz of you during the holidays? It’s so easy to get wrapped up in things (pun intended). Whether you on giving gifts to people or a receiver who loves the joy of the new and unexpected in unwrapping some gift, life seems to slip by and our time, financial, and relationship… Read More
Make Your Own Music
As we stated last time in not so certain terms, listening with all of our senses is key to connecting with our environment and ourselves. When we listen, we enable ourselves to understand the vital few things in our lives. It allows us to recognize what’s important. It allows us to let the noise of… Read More
Music or Noise?
We live in environments overloaded with information, stimulation and distraction. It’s so easy to get lost in the alleyways of the information highway or sucked into distraction with various mental or physical stimulants. There’s so much available to us it is simply overwhelming. There is a concept in of science and engineering called “signal to… Read More
How to Stay Calm in a sea of Troubles
I had a friend take me to lunch this week at work. We continued a dialogue we started about how to stay relaxed and calm no matter what happens. We talked about not being disturbed at work, but the principles were easily applied to daily living and the biz of you. Everyone is different. There… Read More
Finding Our Inner Experience
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us an come to being happy. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Our inner experience has more to do with our success than anything else. Our ability to control our… Read More
Why delay?
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.“ –Mark Twain If only some of our leaders could embrace this, our companies and social institutions would be better off. I know countless examples of leaders, managers or peers who want to “get it right” or “make sure they’ve looked at the options.” Wanting to make things better,… Read More
What should we expect of the world around us?
My wife made an excellent observation the other day. She told me the books we’ve been reading recently while gathering ideas for my Biz of You series of books over the last couple years seem to have a similar underlying theme. (list of books below) Our stress, problems and difficulties with life are an inside… Read More
Our Freedom in the Balance
Every decision we face with presents us with a balancing act. The consequences of our decisions take us to future responsibilities. For example, deciding to have sex with someone when we are young brings about a great responsibility especially if we choose to act without protection or a plan for the “just in case” scenario.… Read More
Embracing the Dark Side
This post could come from different angles as the “dark side” can refer to many different things, some quite fun. To keep with the nature of this blog, the dark side I refer to is what was previously posted. The dark side of freedom is our choice and the fantasy of everything we could be or… Read More
Business of You 