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How Free Imprisons You
It’s either one of life’s cruel ironies or a brilliant example of the Golden Rule in practice, that the same unwillingness to pay for things on the internet—or the willingness to buy pirated material—may also be keeping you trapped in a job or career that you are indifferent to or hate. You won’t even try… Continue Reading
Oh, please don’t you rock my boat
… cause I don’t want my boat to be rocking.” (Bob Marley) I love this song (Don’t Rock the boat) and everytime I hear this refrain, “Please don’t you rock my boat,” I smile. How’s that for an anti-change mantra? I smile because it’s simple and yet profound. It brings up such satisfaction with life;… Continue Reading
Do You Know the Costs of NOT Managing your Commitments?
In the quest to improve performance we’ve gone through several useful philosophies about what to manage, specifically we’ve been told to practice managing: time people projects energy These are all valuable management philosophies but they do not acknowledge the most fundamental practice: the practice of managing commitments. What are commitments? Commitments take several forms e.g.… Continue Reading
Two Principles for Getting More out of Life
Everybody loves simplification so here are two simple principles you can use in the practice of your life; two principles you must own to get more from life—and by “own” I mean not just understand and explain, but know and act from (without thinking) like an extension of your own mind and body. These principles… Continue Reading
How is purpose related to performance?
What explains the energy and enthusiasm that is either present or absent when people take action? I’m sure you’ve noticed it. Some teams or individuals bring determination, creativity, responsibility and joy to their work and others bring resistance, avoidance, resignation, disdain and fear. The first group take effective action and the second group move things and themselves around… Continue Reading
“That’s not what I asked you to do.”
Have you ever been on the receiving end of that one? No? How about “That’s not what we agreed.” Well it’s no fun to be the one transmitting the same message either, especially to your web designer, mechanic, or plastic surgeon. There’s no simple or single answer to why these breakdowns in people’s promises and… Continue Reading
If you want something done properly, do you have to do it yourself?
Have you heard anyone express this? Perhaps you say it about yourself. “If I want anything done properly around here, I have to do it myself.” Most often this is a passive aggressive complaint about how incompetent, stupid or lazy everyone else is. A complaint that suggests how competent, intelligent and industrious the complainer is. … Continue Reading
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What is your concept of truth?
What is your concept of the truth, and why is it germane to the practice of your life? Well think about it. If you live your life according to things that you believe are true, and they’re only partially true or flat out wrong, what do you think the impact would be on your life?… Continue Reading