What are you?
When we talk about people in broad terms, we use lots of descriptive nouns. I’m not talking about the role that specific people play, like student or mother or engineer. […]
Accountability
I’m glad you’re still reading this. Many people find the word “accountability” so threatening that they don’t even want to think about it. Let’s start with the basic concept. When […]
How to Be More Productive and Maintain Good Relationships by Taking Care of the Simple Things Quickly
For years, time management experts have recommended that we first focus on the big, important things, and then squeeze the smaller tasks in between. It’s not a bad theory, but […]
Just-in-time worrying
Here’s a simple, but interesting concept I’d like to throw at you today. How much time and energy do I spend worrying about the future? I might lose my job. […]
Understanding the problem helps find a better solution
As a coach, I work with clients all the time who struggle to make tough career decisions. Here’s what’s interesting about this: usually they’re so focused on trying to find […]
Giving to get
How do you convince people to like you and give you a break? Here’s a core principle of human behavior, so simple: When people receive something they value, they’re more […]
Just take the plunge
This has been an eventful week for me and my business – a key turning point. This is the week I moved from planning to doing. It’s scary, but it’s […]
A fresh start
Well, we survived the first decade of the third millennium. It’s been an amazing and ever-accelerating ride for me, and I hope that you can see your own sparks of […]
A DECADE already?
When I was growing up as a child in the 1960s, I thought about the upcoming turn of the century – 2000 seemed so impossibly far away. But here we […]
What’s the best that could happen?
Sometimes it seems like I’m hard-wired to look for risks, for dangers. Perhaps I am. So here’s a powerful question that I use to help break me out of that […]