Have you ever been backed into a corner with too many expectations of your time and energy? Perhaps there are too many subjects in school and your unable to upload it all. You may have kids, a full-time job, and health issues on top of it all. There are times in our lives where things… Read More
Factoring in the Crap
It’s up to us to include the crap factor of others as well as our own when planning to accomplish something. One method of dealing with the crap factors is to plan for contingencies. A contingency is nothing more than a possible future event we know may happen but are unable to predict with certainty. … 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
Understanding What’s Critical
As Dwight D. Eisenhower is quoted in Six Crises by Richard Nixon, “In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.” The universe responds to action. Within every moment a bias for action enables us to take advantage of the opportunities to fulfill our goals, meet our objectives… Read More
Our Goal of Eating an Elephant
At the grand tactical level it is extremely helpful to be specific on how we may achieve our goals. It is beneficial to think at a low level and list out all the steps to manage the goals that we choose just as much as we orient our goals to our objectives at the higher… Read More
Accepting and Planning for Randomness
It’s up to us to give ourselves flexibility of schedule. When have things ever gone as planned. It does happen, but there are always things that come up. On a trip to the store traffic is horrible for no apparent reason. Getting our license renewed there’s a three-hour wait instead of the typical hour and… Read More
Business of You 