Consider the difference between these two phrases: “I have to.” vs. “I get to.” Imagine you’re going to spend the day taking care of a sick family member. Maybe it’s your father, or your brother, or maybe it’s your child. You’re going to spend a day taking care of.
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Are you looking forward to the next round of family holidays? I’m lucky, I like my family, in fact, I love them. Yet as I listen to people complain about their awful in-laws, crazy sister or cheapskate uncle, I realize, not everyone is so lucky. If you have horrible.
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Have you ever tried to eat a live scorpion? I hope not. But if you ever want to try, get a meerkat to train you. Adult meerkats have to teach their young pups how to dismantle a live venomous scorpion and then eat it. They’re a great model for.
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Do you make big decisions using logic, or emotion? We’ve been taught not to let emotions cloud our decision-making. But there’s a big difference between making an emotional decision and making a rash decision. As humans, it’s impossible to strip emotion from our decision-making. Nor would you want to..
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Do you want people to care about your cause, idea or product? A client of mine, we’ll call him Don, was struggling to get funding for his startup. He had a promising software product; he’d done a test market; he had the data. People liked his presentation. Yet he.
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Companies want customers to love them. Bosses want people to love their jobs. Yet many leaders will tell you, emotion has no place in business. This is cognitive dissonance at best, dangerous at worst. Let’s start with the cognitive dissonance. To think you can strip emotion out of the.
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The data shows firstborns are more likely to become U.S. presidents, CEOs, surgeons and MBAs than later-born siblings. One could argue whether overachievement is a positive outcome or not. Studies indicate while firstborns are more likely to be dutiful type A’s, their younger siblings are better collaborators and more.
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Could you do me a favor? It’s a common phrase, but it’s packed with meaning. Most of us like to do favors. But we’re often uncomfortable asking for favors. I had to ask a favor recently, from someone I didn’t know. It got me thinking about how asking and.
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I don’t yell as much as my mother. I consider that an accomplishment. Unfortunately, my kids never knew my mother, so they have no idea how well I’m doing. That’s the problem with comparisons. We all live in our own world, a world forged by our experiences. Consider these.
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Have you ever experienced death by PowerPoint? How about your boss asking you to read the endless business plan? We’ve all been there. A well-intentioned person puts pen to paper, or hands to keyboard, and they cram everything they know into a document. Their intention is to share important.
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