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Make a Damn Decision
If you can’t decide for yourself, someone else will. Indecision is surrendering one’s inalienable freedom to choose. Indecision facilitates purposelessness and if practiced long enough may lead to a feeling of dread for the meaningless of our actions. I’ve been working with my kids on making decisions and following them through. A couple of years… Read More
Sea of Troubles
We face a myriad of difficulties changing day-to-day, month to month and year to year. At times it is overwhelming. It’s easy to get lost in our woes and worries when constraints out number the freedoms in our lives. In these times it is extremely important to use the social resources available in our lives and… Read More
What if…
What if we managed our lives as successful businesses do? How are businesses similar to our individual lives? Businesses have a purpose and provide products and/or services to customers in exchange for goods, services or money. They manage resources to achieve the objectives they set to bring about the vision they have. Successful businesses plan… Read More
Contracting Yourself
As we mentioned in a previous post, if we don’t use perks at work for our own benefit our jobs will use perks to help us work more and more to their benefit. If we are not careful perks at works can turn us into slaves without our awareness of it. Think about the perks… Read More
The OODA Loop Part 2
As we learned in The OODA Loop Part 1, the first step in the process we enact every waking moment of our lives is to Observe. The second step in the OODA process is the most important. How we orient ourselves to the observations we make can determine the course of our lives down to… Read More
The Fire of Focus
Time may be the fire in which we burn, but our focus is what catches us on fire. Our focus determines our reality. It has the ability to stress us out, feel tranquil or simply be happy. Time is a limited renewable resource provided we wake up every day. How we use our time and… Read More
Just a Little Buffer
Let’s say you value yourself and know what you value in life. Let’s also say you have an idea of how to create the vision you have for yourself. As life unfolds, if you don’t have any buffer or contingency plan, the present situation can be pretty stressful. What is buffer and what is contingency?… Read More
Our Inevitable Distractions
My daughter and I were discussing the blog the other evening and she asked, “Do you think it’s easy to get distracted from the things we really want to do?” “I don’t understand how it’s easy to get distracted when the things we get distracted with are things we want to do.” What an insightful… Read More
Unexpected Learning
I was cooking in the kitchen as I normally do on the weekends when I over heard my son saying to my wife, “fuss over me.” “Mom, fuss over me.” Being four years old his mind is pretty straight forward. I tend to be more of the disciplinarian in the family and my wife is… Read More
