There are three simple steps for dealing with difficult people and one path to increasing the value of our lives. Read More
Are You Professional?
What is professional? According to a dictionary, to be professional is to be engaged in an activity as one’s main paid occupation rather than a pastime. What is unprofessional? Looking at the same computer dictionary, to be unprofessional is to be below the standards expected in a particular profession. What the…? Being unprofessional is about… Read More
What if…
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
Improving with Feedback
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man.” “True nobility is being superior to your former self.” Earnest Hemingway as quoted by Harry Hart in The Kingsman This quote captures the essence of continual improvement within the framework of Managing the Business of You. Improvement is about learning. It’s about increasing our… Read More
Taking Our Lives
This week I’ve witnessed an interesting constellation of events. I recently reposted a page and linked to pages from the Tarts and Travels blog as examples of managing the biz of you. My wife and I are working with her twin sister and husband on retirement plans and the possible purchase of property. I had… Read More
It’s up to You
“Things aren’t gonna change unless you do.” These was said to me in a conversation with Ron, the gentleman who checks people in at the doctor’s office. We were discussing having fun with what we do. Both of observed that more than half the people we interact with complain about things and most especially work.… Read More
Business of You 