Pinochle is the Biz

Life is like a game of pinochle; you bid on what you’re dealt plus gut feel, trade your weak cards for new ones, meld with your partner, and see what tricks you pull together. A good team plays off one another finding fun no matter what cards come their way. Connecting with one another enables… 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

Why shouldn’t we grow continuously?

We are a set of interacting elements forming an integrated whole with relationships within ourselves and to other systems beyond ourselves.  There is a structure and interconnectivity within our mental models that connect with our environment.  The behavior we exhibit is unique to our personal system.  We are open systems exchanging matter and energy with… Read More

Finding the Essence

There is a feeling, thought and spirit that is you.  Do you know it?  Within this feeling, thought and spirit is our fundamental essence which has intrinsic value, usefulness and worth.  It is the root of our experience.  It is the basis of our interaction, integration and interconnectivity with our universe.  It is also the… Read More