Having a little more time over the holidays affords a time for reflection. A year ago, I posted Managing Our Time and Distractions and linked to the YouTube video, Look Up. I still think it’s a good video. Others do as well as it gained another 11,000,000 views in the last year. Some of the… Read More
How to Stay Calm in a sea of Troubles
I had a friend take me to lunch this week at work. We continued a dialogue we started about how to stay relaxed and calm no matter what happens. We talked about not being disturbed at work, but the principles were easily applied to daily living and the biz of you. Everyone is different. There… Read More
Finding Our Inner Experience
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us an come to being happy. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Our inner experience has more to do with our success than anything else. Our ability to control our… Read More
The OODA Loop Part 1
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor E. Frankl from brainyquote.com Whether we are aware of it or not, we utilize processes throughout the days of our lives. When we make toast, get the… 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
Addressing the Critical Things
When observing and addressing the small critical things that add value and have an impact on manifesting our intent, there are a few considerations that promote an increase in effectiveness. Realizing we live with the very useful illusion of free will, including the freedom to choose during the execution of our plans at all levels… Read More
Finding our Center
I was having lunch with a friend when we began discussing being aware of our center. For myself I find there’s a still point within where things simply drop away. Pain, Pleasure, worry, happiness and thoughts aren’t there. For my friend, the experience is more akin to a soft light that gives energy… Read More
Integrating Our Business
The business of you is not self-centered and focused solely on the individual. Another perspective just as important is how our business integrates with the business of other individuals, organizations as well as nature’s “business.” We are a system that integrates with nearby systems as well as the larger systems around us. Even when we… Read More
Embracing Our Wiggle Worm
Watching my four and eight year old attend a martial arts class, I remembered what I’ve seen at work from technicians to executive management. There are times we all lack focus and become less effective. We get distracted by personal things. We get lost in our vision to the point of forgetting to interact with our… Read More
Kids are Awesome
Dropping my daughter off at martial arts after dark, my 4-year-old son said from the back seat, “All the lights have lines.” It took me a good 5 minutes before I realized what he was saying. He was squinting his eyes to diffract the lights in the night through his eye lashes. I was such… Read More
Business of You 