Since the cognitive revolution 70,000 years ago, we have been changing our behavior and social patterns faster than our DNA is able to change. The cognitive revolution, according to Yuval Noah Harari, enabled humankind to imagine realities other than the perceived reality of the ground we walk on, the sky we look up to, or… Read More
Random Opportunity
What random opportunities to improve are you missing out on? Read More
5-Hour Rule
We don’t spend enough time feeding and exercising our brains. We get wrapped up in this or that thing. We say to ourselves, “I have so much to do,” or “I don’t have time.” A healthy and active brain requires new material to digest and problem solving just like our bodies need diet and exercise.… Read More
Embrace Your Ignorance
Ignorance is nothing more than a lack of knowledge or information. By accepting and understanding our ignorance we enable ourselves to gain knowledge and information. A child is naturally ignorant and does not fear or judge their ignorance. As we grow up, our peers judge us by our knowledge of things. It allows us to… 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
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
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
Honoring Our Feedback
I recently attended an on-line Writer’s Digest bootcamp for finding and keeping a literary agent put on by the ladies of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. It was an excellent learning opportunity concerning inquiry letters and the first few pages of any book. After incorporating the advice, we were allowed to submit our inquiry letter… Read More
Always Updating
As I tell my son and daughter, “I want to be learning to the end of my days” and “everyday we should be improving.” This is true for everything we do. I recent came across a blog post indicating that the most important pages on a website is the about pages. This person summarized “How… Read More
Seeking the Best in Ourselves
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; ‘these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions’; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a… Read More
Business of You 