‘It’s better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.” –Alfred Lord Tennyson This is true of any relationship including our bodies, minds, friends, lovers and yes even our work. I’ve been struggling with what and how to write about recent events at work. In the last few months, I lost a love… Read More
Scope This!
The scope of our attention determines our reality. We create more work than necessary and hubris when our scope of attention extends into details not mattering to our particular task or intention. We create uncertainty and fear of the unknown when our scope of attention does not include the pertinent details for our task or… Read More
Where Have the Leaders Gone?
To be a leader you have to get over yourself, which takes constant learning. Read More
What’s Your Treasure?
Will Durant’s poses some basic questions in his book, On the Meaning of Life: What is the meaning or worth of human life? What meaning does life have for you? What keeps you going? What help — if any — does religion give you? What are the sources of your inspiration and your energy? What… Read More
Know What You Value
“Happiness does not come from a job. it comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.” -Mike Rowe, Host of “Dirty Jobs” To know what you value is the cornerstone of managing the biz of you. You get caught up in the currents of your environment… Read More
Ongoing Processes
We are constantly evolving through incremental changes brought about by the processes we execute. We’re not just evolving as a species but as individuals in how we think and live within our bodies. Change is ever present as is process execution. As we age, the oxygen uptake in our brain changes which leads to different… Read More
At What Cost
When we go about our day-to-day activities, we can easily get lost in the repetitive, lackluster nature of things. We turn a lot of things in our daily lives into habits so we may accomplish more without using precious energy to think about our actions. Freeing energy to focus on more threatening things is the… 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
Leveraging Our Future
As discussed the previous posts, Learning Our Leverage Points and Leveraging Our Interactions, we can make our lives easier if we know what force to apply when. We can also lighten our load so to speak as we can focus on applying effort where it’s needed instead of just working endlessly. The other leverage points… Read More
Our Manageable Properties
The means by which we achieve our desired states like pleasure, happiness and satisfaction, are the properties that we can directly influence. Manageable properties are intrinsic and naturally belong in our lives. A symbol of this is the center of a wheel. By directly affecting the hub, we move all attached to that hub. And… Read More
Business of You 