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
Guiding Ourselves Through Time
There is one more time horizon that many people do not take into account, that is time scales beyond our life time. There is a treasure trove of things we can learn from the past. The actions we take in our life can have an impact on the future beyond our time on this planet… Read More
Needs and Consequences
Each moment we are given another opportunity to observe, orient, and decide how to act. This is our immediate experience and the most intimate of time horizons. Our immediate apprehension of the reality of our situation is our tactical interaction with our environment. In this time horizon, situational awareness is all about the immediacy of… Read More
Our Primary Resource, Time
The first resource we all have some measure of control over is time. As Dr. Tolian Soran said in the movie Star Trek Generations, “Time is the fire in which we burn.” This is a common sentiment especially when we do not use that fire to accomplish what we choose. When others choose the objectives… Read More