Your zombie attachment to your expectations is killing you and affecting the people around you. Read More
Your Time Is Limited
Invest your greatest resource where it will turn a profit. Read More
Happiness Hunters
To all the happiness hunters out there, of which I count myself one, we are hunting snipes. Just like snipe hunting which is typically a practical joke played on those as part of a hazing, snipes do exist (check out wiki page on it). Happiness exists but it is not something we can directly influence.… Read More
What’s Your Treasure?
Will Durant’s poses some basic questions in his book, On the Meaning of Life: What is the meaning or worth of human life? What meaning does life have for you? What keeps you going? What help — if any — does religion give you? What are the sources of your inspiration and your energy? What… Read More
The Biz of Life
It’s so easy to get lost in the chaos, trials and tribulations of work. We get absorbed and overwhelmed. Stress consumes us and we allow our lives to be eaten away by working extra to “stay ahead.” The fact is there is no staying ahead of it. In our modern world of push, push, push,… Read More
Learn to say “NO”
I’ve been reading Dr. Seuss to the kids while the significant other has been traveling for work. I’ve also been listening to The Ego is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday. Mashing things up with the Biz of You resulted in the following thought. It doesn’t flow as easily as Fox in Socks, but it… Read More
Warm Work Relationships
What about work relationships? A friend from South Africa emailed me and asked me follow up on the recent post about “the warmth of our close relationships have more to do with our success than money or fame” After high school or college and prior to retirement we spend the majority of our lives interacting… Read More
Warm Relationships Are Key
“Financial success depends on warmth of relationships and, above a certain level, not on intelligence.” source: Wikipedia, Grant Study I recently watched the TED talk given by Robert Waldinger on “What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness.” One of the key things he points out is how important relationships are… 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
Emergent Happiness
There’s an excellent post at The Good Vader by Julio Lara about the “Anatomy of a Happy Life.” He indicates freedom, variety and change are essential. He talks of his personal experience and observations which I find correlate well with my own. A few key points popped out at me including: not allowing our physical… Read More
Business of You 