Simple rules

Rules exist to guide and provide clarity for engagement. Unfortunately, we tend to think of them as those that apply to society, organizations, and games where multiple people interact.  While those do exist and have value, the rules we apply to ourselves are...

Easy or doable

Do we want to do things because they are easy to do?  Possibly you have done it the same way for years, and it is now a routine. So why do you do it? For the love of it, the purpose or it’s your responsibility. If it was simple, would you talk about it?...

Every cloud has a silver lining

Today you will encounter an issue that is not according to your plan. If not today, maybe tomorrow. How we choose to react to this is our choice alone, and we can see it as an issue or an opportunity. With each negative encounter, we learn. What we are good at, what...

Growth is by choice

When we are faced with a perspective that does not meet our initial assumptions, we have two options available to us: we can choose to listen, learn and possibly consider new information or thinking to alter our initial views, or we can work to prove the alternate...

No is positive

We are accustomed to ‘no’ being a negative response. ‘No, you did not get the new position.’ ‘No, the loan was not approved’, and on it goes… ‘No’ is the positive you have been missing all this time. It is likely that job was not the right one, and...