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Complacency is a Champion’s Greats Foe
Q: “Do you feel rich?” A: “No. I think I always have a fear that whatever I have could leave, and it’s very temporary. I’ve…
October 20, 2008
Two Sets of Skills
It takes one set of skills to get to the mountain top, a whole other set of skills to stay there. The drive that propels…
October 13, 2008
If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority.
When everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. If everything is important, then nothing is important. Medicine responds to this potential dilemma with…
October 2, 2008
Practice Dying
I read recently about a yoga meditation where you lie down, close your eyes, and imagine your own death. You “practice dying.” The point is…
September 10, 2008
Truths Are Caught, Not Taught
I believe that the task of a leader, as a parent at home or as a supervisor at work, is to find ways to bring…
August 29, 2008
Debt: Friend or Foe?
Debt: Friend or Foe? In some respects this is a silly question. I might as well ask “Food: Friend or Foe?” In moderation, consumed intelligently,…
August 7, 2008
“I intend to” vs “Immediate I have”: Empowerment and win-win performance agreements
Empowerment has been globally defined as “the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into…
August 4, 2008
A Plug For Contentment
I think of contentment as the stepsister of happiness. If happiness is the swan, contentment is the ugly duckling. Everyone is pursuing happiness. Happiness gets…
August 1, 2008
Take a Deep Breath. Stretch.
Breathing is one of the most under-noticed, under-rated body functions. Yet there is a lot of power in controlling your breathing. “Take a deep breath.”…
July 29, 2008
Chicken Little Rides Again?
“Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them,” by John E. Mueller “False Alarm: The Truth About…
July 25, 2008
Does Screaming Improve Behavior? An Error in Intution
In the mid-60s a future Nobel Prize winner (2002 for Economics), Daniel Kahneman, lectured to a group of Israeli air force flight instructors on the…
July 15, 2008