Tension is created when we encounter different cultures or points of view. Arguments ensue when we hold onto one side or the other. The tension continues to build until something gives. Is this process necessary? What about using that energy to ask questions and seek understanding of the other perspective? When I’ve found myself in… Read More
Time Leveraging Our Actions
From Mignon McLaughlin’s The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook, “Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound Interest!” “What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.” Compound interest is the price paid for the use of borrowed money… Read More
Leveraging Our Future
As discussed the previous posts, Learning Our Leverage Points and Leveraging Our Interactions, we can make our lives easier if we know what force to apply when. We can also lighten our load so to speak as we can focus on applying effort where it’s needed instead of just working endlessly. The other leverage points… 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
Learning Our Leverage Points
Growing ceaselessly until our death, we have to shed the old so we can grow anew. This idea gives credence to the zen story of emptying one’s cup. “A professor who focused on religious studies went to visit a Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen and its relations… Read More
Business of You 