Hell Is Not Other People
Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote (and others infamously misinterpreted), “Hell is other people.” He meant that it’s awful to restrict our understanding of ourselves to what …
Raise a Little Buzz
When a problem persists even if you seem to have tried everything, the temptation is to blame others, self, the world. It is far more …
Why Real Success is Simple
We usually think success is a result. Whether it’s a goal, end, possession, status, or achievement, we call something a success only after we have …
Buzz
We can plot every thought, feeling, emotion, and moment on a “buzz scale” that might go from from “dark and crappy” to “unbridled delight.” We …
Anchored Away
The extent to which you spend your quiet time (heck, even your noisy time) with your thoughts and words focused on what is, was, or …
Guilt and Delegation
As leaders (with or without title), we can sometimes feel guilty for delegating work to others especially when it is work that we have done …
Power and its Opposite
Let’s agree to be powerful leaders (with or without title). To do that, let’s first distinguish power from its opposite. Power is the stance of …
Overextended
What do we do when there is too much to do? How can we get to working on the big, important things when there are …
The Alternative to Control
Where we don’t trust the future, the universe, or others, we try awfully hard to control or avoid (and avoid is really another form of …
The Magic and the Mundane
Like a well-trimmed sailboat, we best balance on the edge between all magic and all mundane. Seeking to be all magic defeats the purpose of …