No matter where we are at along the spectrum of managing our lives, we all have the capacity to become the masters of our biz Read More
The Story We Tell Ourselves
What illusions have I been telling myself and how is that interfering with my success 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 the Mistakes
My wife has been working with our daughter on the importance of going through the grading of her homework when the teachers give it back. Of course, our daughter doesn’t like it when she’s wrong. Most people don’t. She take’s it personally and gets down on herself. Being wrong is a misconception and to take… Read More
Observing and Orienting Ourselves
Most of my posts follow the same structure. There’s an observation followed by an orientation to the idea of managing the business of you. This approach illustrates the first two steps of a process we all follow when awake. We observe or experience what’s happening around us. We naturally orient our experience to our map… Read More
Do you know the roots of your issues?
Without knowing the cause of our issues it’s really hard to make changes last beyond our attention spans. As indicated in the previous post, the first step in correcting a problem is to contain the situation so there are no further negative impacts. The second thing to do is seek an understanding of why the… 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
Finding Reflections of Ourselves
Last week we spoke of balancing the shadow and light within ourselves. Our ego-centric view is a tool. Like all tools we need to use our ego to the extent it’s useful. Being in the center of the universe can get in the way of our continual improvement and integration with our environment and the… 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
Loving Our Learning Opportunities
The gear heads I know will no doubt be a little disappointed in me upon reading this post. With the cold weather in the last couple of months, I’ve had issues starting my truck when it gets below 10 degrees Fahrenheit. I would go to start my truck, it would crank but not fire up. … Read More
Business of You 