Time may be the fire in which we burn, but our focus is what catches us on fire. Our focus determines our reality. It has the ability to stress us out, feel tranquil or simply be happy. Time is a limited renewable resource provided we wake up every day. How we use our time and… 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
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
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
Our Goal of Eating an Elephant
At the grand tactical level it is extremely helpful to be specific on how we may achieve our goals. It is beneficial to think at a low level and list out all the steps to manage the goals that we choose just as much as we orient our goals to our objectives at the higher… Read More
What Goals do We Need?
Recognizing where we are in relation with our vision and objectives is vital to the success of what we endeavor to do with our life. Comparing where we are with where we desire to be is the foundation of managing the situations occurring in our lives. This level of awareness where we feel the tension… Read More
Our vision breathes life into our daily activities.
As Peter Senge points out in the Fifth Discipline, when there’s no shared vision within a company, there’s no common identity or goal amongst the employees. As employees, we can see this lack of vision. Division objectives are set without taking into account operational capability and efficiencies. Departmental goals are disjointed accomplishing an improvement here… Read More
Leveraging Our Interactions
Our paradigms are the beliefs about how our world works and ultimately guides our actions. As Andrew Bernstein points out in The Myth of Stress, “We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we believe them to be.” Thus, if we can change or alter our paradigm to better integrate into our… 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
Issues Arise out of not Managing Our Business.
Looking at my recent posts, I find I’ve had the opportunity to work and befriend some excellent people. However, things are not as rosy as I write it. I also work and know people who are on the other end of the spectrum. There are those who don’t manage their business and complain about what’s… Read More
Business of You 