Systems and Sisyphus
Do you think in terms of Systems? That many situations involve multiple players making multiple moves over time? Always focus First on Removing Restraining Forces…
How to Master Your Moods
Our emotions arise from the thoughts we allow into our minds, from the world view we’ve chosen to adopt. Change your mind, change your life.…
Resilience 101 “Consciously Building Your Coping Skills Before Life Tests You”
In life, it is inevitable that we will have valleys through which we must walk, times of despair, defeat and discouragement. These journeys will be…
Troubles Will Come, Two Ways to Build Resilience in Advance
Consciously Build Your Self Confidence/Self Esteem Get your inner voice fully on your side, not as a flattering sycophant but as a coach who lovingly…
What mistakes are you currently making today and what are you going to do about them?
It is astounding how much of our lives we spend on auto-pilot, unthinkingly performing the same, almost ritualistic behaviors. Reflexively feeling the same emotions because…
Claiming Your Golden Shadow
In Jung’s psychology, the “shadow” refers to an unconscious aspect of the personality, everything of which a person is not fully conscious, i.e. the shadow…
Don’t Be Your Own Biggest Problem: Three Ways to Freedom
I decided a long time ago that life holds enough challenges without the handicap of me not being fully on board, fully committed to loving…
Three Common Traps Successful Folk Avoid
Playing without Goal Posts “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra Most folks go the same…
The Many Possible Riches of a Poor Memory
The first thing to understand is that far from being akin to a marriage of video recorder and a computer data bank, our observations tend…
What is Your Prime Directive?
What is your Prime Directive? What is your Driving Force? Your North Star? Your Rationale for Existence? Your Controlling Principles? Your Mission Statement, Your Purpose?…
As an Owner/Operator of Real Estate with a “Digital Open Door”, I get “Questions For Chair” which I’d like to share:
What is the first business related thing you think about when you wake up and/or go to bed? I had a paper route as a kid…
Do These Three Hard Things to be Happy
Say no. Given that our time on this earth is limited and there are only 24 hours in a day, every Yes is a No…
As an Owner/Operator of Real Estate with a “Digital Open Door”, I get “Questions For Chair” which I’d like to share:
How would you describe your typical daily routine/schedule for success? STAY HUNGRY! I’m frequently pleased, NEVER satisfied! Specifics change with each decade and position! Coming up,…
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
We all have a world view, a perspective that we use to explain to ourselves, to make sense of, the reality we experience, to fit…
As an Owner/Operator of Real Estate with a “Digital Open Door”, I get “Questions For Chair” which I’d like to share:
What would your advice be for someone new trying to get their start in purchasing real estate/properties to manage? Go read Real Estate Investing Gone Bad: 21…
10 Things the Most Successful People Are Always Doing
1) Planning their Lives, Working their Plan. Ordinary folks with a plan will go further than a genius without a plan. Most folks go the…
Coming up Against Our Edge
We all have “edges”, areas we do not go, areas we hold back from, areas we are not comfortable in, areas we shut down in.…
The Back and Forth of Leadership
How to balance empowerment and control? Business guru Tom Peters quotes Alfred Sloan, former GM CEO, saying that management is “steering back and forth between: a)…
The Best Bosses Aren’t Always Bossy
Being a good boss has a soft side and a hard side. On the hard side, bosses provide training, instruction, guidance, goals and targets, resources,…
What Do You Tolerate?
What will you put up with before you move on? What are your standards, your acceptable minimum? Generally speaking, what we are willing to settle…
Are you Watering Dead Flowers? Stop Watering Dead Flowers
Where in your life are you wasting effort and energy? With who or where is your life force not being valued? Sometimes you have to…
Put On Your Own Mask First
Why do the airlines tell you to “Put On Your Own Mask First”? Because before you can help others, you must first take care of…
An Entrepreneurial Trait Anyone Can Emulate
A key trait of entrepreneurs is that they are Self-Directed. While entrepreneurs may look to many sources for inspiration and guidance, they do not need…
Seven Things Most Successful People Have Given Up
1) Successful people watch less TV, spend less time aimlessly surfing the internet. Successful people tend to lead disciplined, focused lives. 2) Successful people release…
The 5 Whys: Getting to Root Causes, Fast!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys The “5 Whys” spring from Toyota and are a simple problem-solving exercise designed to go beyond symptoms to unearth the root cause of problems.…
In Search of (Productive) Dissatisfaction
Ah! Why would anyone go in search of dissatisfaction? Well, complacency is the biggest enemy of champions. As Andrew Grove, the founder of Intel, famously…