Like my children, most people just don’t get the money value of time. My daughter was stressing out today trying to get her school iPad working. It’s glitchy and something I’m unable to help her with without significant effort and on top of that, the iPad doesn’t belong to me. I risk revocation of the… Read More
Seeing the Future
“If you’re too worried about the past, you can’t see the future.” Jordan Olson 18-Feb-16 My daughter Jordan reads my posts on occasion and even comments. She’s nine going on thirteen. Every now and again she comes to me with ideas about a post or some thought-provoking my interest. Just last night she asked if… Read More
Feedback on Integrity
This week was the audit of my company’s business management system. Today is the last day of the audit where we receive the final report indicating any major or minor findings and observations. To help my eight-year-old daughter understand what an audit is like I asked her what her standardized tests were like. She told… Read More
Do You Expect or Create?
I learn so much from my kids. I don’t know who’s wiser. Earlier this week, my wife and I had to get after them for bickering and even fighting. Well, my 8-year-old daughter smacked my 4-year-old son for something she didn’t like. We had to have discussions with both of them about how our son… Read More
Why Worry about what Others Think
I love it when my daughter reads my posts and comes to me with ideas of what to write about next. Earlier this week, she encouraged me to write about, “Not worrying about what people think about you. It only matters what you think about yourself. People can not force you to think differently about… Read More
Do Things Before Expected
My eight year old daughter gets it. As she reads the posts of this blog, some of her comments not only surprise me but inspire new ways of communicating the principles of managing ourselves. The other evening she told me, “I like doing things before I get asked because I don’t like being asked to… Read More
Our Inevitable Distractions
My daughter and I were discussing the blog the other evening and she asked, “Do you think it’s easy to get distracted from the things we really want to do?” “I don’t understand how it’s easy to get distracted when the things we get distracted with are things we want to do.” What an insightful… Read More
Dealing with Bullies
My eight year old daughter is taking an active interest in my blog. She’s reading the posts and commenting about what she likes and doesn’t. She’s also starting to throw out ideas for posts. One recent suggestion is to write about bullying. At breakfast the other day, our family was talking about bullying and how… Read More
Business of You 