Without clear direction established by the purpose we give ourselves, time becomes the fire in which we burn. With no drive towards something, our time and energy is used by others for their own purposes. Marketing agencies use advertisement to drive us towards their purposes. Our friends and family can use us to get things… Read More
Trust is Like Cooking
An analogy for trust our five-year old picked up recently is cooking. I love to cook and have taken it on as my chore for our household. The family has grown to like my food. My wife’s family has grown to like the food as well. At least that’s what they tell me. When talking… Read More
Keep the Head Up
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
Taking Our Lives
This week I’ve witnessed an interesting constellation of events. I recently reposted a page and linked to pages from the Tarts and Travels blog as examples of managing the biz of you. My wife and I are working with her twin sister and husband on retirement plans and the possible purchase of property. I had… Read More
Focusing on the Important Things
Determining what’s important in the moment is a key to the unlocking the door to an enjoyable life. As we mentioned in the last post, importance and urgency can be arranged to form a matrix. This matrix can be used to understand how we need to focus our attention, attitude and actions to create the… 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
Timing of Now
When we lose a loved one or friend, we often think of the time lost to the past when we could have spent more time with them. We think and feel we could have taken more time to enjoy our relationship or experience more with them. We do what we can. We make choices 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
Managing Our Time and Distractions
The internet is an amazing invention born out of the minds of millions of people. It’s an pattern of our collective minds. When I was a Large Scale Information Space Research Engineer, we found the internet is strewn with all kinds of off topic information intended to draw us to websites. In creating a topically constrained… Read More
Deciding to Play
Play is unstructured fun where there are few or no expectations on the outcome. When we are young, playing comes natural. Kids naturally play alone or with other kids. They don’t worry about what needs to be done next or when the recess bell will ring. They simply play. They have fun with what they… Read More
Business of You 