New Year: How to Change the Stubborn Issues
In this time of resolutions, reflection, and list-making, we can become understandably skeptical. Often the things we really want to be different just don’t change. …
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Compelling New Year’s Resolutions
Before you set any New Year’s resolutions, consider this: you can only keep a resolution if it is compelling. And compelling feels good. Resolutions like, …
Why Don’t People Listen?
Why don’t people listen? Oh, that’s easy: They start defending against what we say–often before we speak–based on how we say it, We tend to …
Items Lingering in Your Inbox
Items that linger in your inbox sap your effectiveness. The longer they remain, the more pressure, guilt, or distraction you will feel and the less …
A Natural Plan
When you have a big goal, the distance from where you are to where you want to be can seem huge. You might be tempted …
What’s On Your List?
My son Jack did something quite instructive this morning. He took out a piece of paper and started writing. 1. Family 2. Dogs 3. Friends …
An Awful Way to Sell or Buy
“Lowest Price Guaranteed” is an awful way to sell or buy something. When you compete mainly on price, your quality and service suffer and you struggle …
3 Ways to Un-Inherit the Criticism Habit
In the past two posts we’ve covered The massive avoidable waste caused by criticism, finding fault, focusing on incompetence, and The inner shift that lets …
Don’t Blame Your Smartphone
It is not our technologies that cut us off from each other. And our technologies are not to blame for our hurried lives. It is …
Leading Without All The Effort
Last night, my wife hosted a small meeting at our house. The group was gathered to plan an important, impactful event. My role was logistics: …