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Guide Thy Self
Good Idea Me
Whether you tell yourself you can or can’t, you are correct. So why tell yourself one way or another? When we tell ourselves we can’t do something, our brains see the ways that prevent us from doing it. When we tell ourselves we can, our brains see opportunities but when things don’t go as we… 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
Explore What Works
It is up to each of us to explore our lives by repeating the following: Observe with curiosity the activities around us and within without judgement while maintaining our connection to our environment. Orient ourselves to the possibilities presented to us that have the capability of bringing about what we truly want in a given… Read More
Working the Conflict
Conflict arises in our lives in all kinds of ways. It may be at work, with our significant others, our kids or our own competing desires. No matter where we encounter conflict the biz of you benefits when you allow it to happen with the intent of learning from it. Conflict is not necessarily a… Read More
Why delay?
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.“ –Mark Twain If only some of our leaders could embrace this, our companies and social institutions would be better off. I know countless examples of leaders, managers or peers who want to “get it right” or “make sure they’ve looked at the options.” Wanting to make things better,… 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
The Marathon of Life
We are running a marathon all the time yet unaware of it. In a marathon, runners have to learn how to fuel their body correctly, understand there is room at the finish line for everyone, carry as little as possible, enjoy the silence of tuning into one’s body, and let other’s pass you by. 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
Gaining Perspective
I had the opportunity to visit a key supplier for our company this week along with a few other folks I work with. The intent of the meeting was to share our performance measurements with them in comparison with other unidentified suppliers. As a key supplier who we’ve been working with for over 20 years,… Read More
Business of You 