At some point in your life you have a wake-up moment. It’s that instance in time when you quit going through the motions and actually think about your life and what it all really means. My first big wake-up moment occurred at my mother’s funeral. I was 29 years.
[Read More]Almost everyone has a home office, but almost no one has a good looking one. I used to hate my home office, but several years ago I had an epiphany. I was about to order new dining room furniture. I’d spent months browsing magazines and stores and was about.
[Read More]Why do people fail? Is it because they’re lazy or incompetent? Perhaps the Universe conspires against us sometimes. We tend to think of failure as catastrophic. It’s a big scary horrible thing to be avoided at all cost. But the truth is – Failure is the ambitious person’s constant.
[Read More]Many people believe that the sole purpose of business is to make money. They’re wrong. When you overemphasize profit – particularly short-term profit – you wind up creating a culture that underemphasizes customers. Just ask the fine folks at Goldman Sachs. In a scathing op-ed for the New York.
[Read More]Do you ever compare yourself to other people? Of course you do. We all do. People are always telling you not to compare yourself to others, but it’s part of human nature. Humans are called the comparing creatures. It’s not always a bad thing. Here are three ways comparing.
[Read More]Do you ever get annoyed with yourself for procrastinating? You knew you had the deadline; you had plenty of time to work on it. But there you are, at the last minute, scrambling to get it done. Yet somehow, it always seems to get done. Doesn’t it? Deadlines ignite.
[Read More]There are two kinds of “I’m sorry.” The kind where you feel bad for the other person, and the kind where you take personal responsibility for what went wrong. The first kind of “I’m sorry” is easy. You say it at funerals, “I’m so sorry you lost your mom.”.
[Read More]They might seem like the same thing, but they’re not. Being aggressive turns people off. But being assertive is a critical skill for anyone who wants to have fulfilling relationships, personal or professional. You’ll never get anything done if you don’t know how to be assertive. Words are tricky..
[Read More]Two weeks ago I forgot to bring my contact lens case to the eye doctor. So they gave me one of theirs to store my contacts in during the exam. It was much smaller than my normal case, the kind you get for free with the solution. But it.
[Read More]In an era where it seems like many companies have become heartless sweatshops grabbing for every nickel they can get and squeezing their employees for more and more, having a larger purpose still matters. People have become jaded about mission and vision statements. Too often, they become meaningless platitudes.
[Read More]
