What’s Your Choice?
Happiness, for most of us, is a choice. Reality is not. It seems, though, that choosing to be happy ends up changing the reality that …
Public Service Announcement: The Wisdom Virus
Be careful now. No matter how young or old we are, wisdom can strike us any time and when we least expect it. Symptoms include …
What If It’s About Mirth?
What if all this is supposed to be fun, light, simple? What if that knot in our gut (or wherever) was not something telling us …
Getting A Job (Sometimes) Without Experience
After yesterday’s post about organizations not needing to hire based on experience, a reader rightly asked about being on the other side of this transaction, …
Why We Needn’t Hire The Experienced
Back in day, when things were more Industrial-Age-same-same, we could hire people based on their experience. The question, “Have they done this successfully elsewhere?” was …
Get More Productive with Well-Formed Tasks
When we come across a poorly-formed task on our task list, we either slow down to figure out what to do or just skip it …
Anticipate Something Good
What if, every time we caught ourselves anticipating something bad that might happen, we stopped and started anticipating something good that we would want to …
Model, Test, Learn, Repeat
Consider the theoretical physicist. She works intently, often for decades, on models and equations she hopes will better describe our universe. Yet the results from …
What’s Your Story?
Our successes today and tomorrow tend to follow the story we’ve been telling ourselves. Sometimes our stories are not front-of-mind. But we know by how …
Go Ahead, Look Deeper
Why are you doing what you are doing in your work and life? If we scratch just beneath the surface of our answers to this …