You know you have a lot of potential and creativity. You know you want to be more successful. You know you don’t want to keep feeling stuck and overwhelmed. But you are not sure how to start moving forward again.
I have news for you. You can either bemoan how your are getting older and can’t change things around, or you can decide to take control of your life and do whatever it takes to get to the next level of success. Continue reading »
Practicing any skill, like golf, or horseback riding, should improve it. When you practice on your own, without deep understanding of what you are doing, you may end up repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Thus, you develop bad habits which are hard to break.
Empathy is the ability to experience and relate to the thoughts, emotions, or experience of others. It’s more than simple sympathy, which is being able to understand and support others with compassion or sensitivity. Empathy is fundamental to leadership, as many leadership theories suggest. Do you understand empathy at least at a second grade level? Continue reading »
Mother's day is around the corner. Also, today is my mother’s birthday. She would have been 85, but I lost her when she was only 72. What I have not lost are the lessons she taught me, both with her words and her example. I’m sharing with you today a few of those lessons. Continue reading »
May 1 is a non-working national holiday in more than 80 countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries. Ironically, although this celebration of working-class solidarity originated in the U.S labor movement in the United States and soon spread around the world, it never earned official recognition in this country. May 1 is rarely recognized where it began. . . Continue reading »
Here in the northern hemisphere Spring seems to be finally starting. Things in front on the house are starting to grow. Trees show their tender buds and leaves. Tulips spread their color. I love this time of year.
The awakening of Spring brought to my mind a quote by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. . . Continue reading »
Your brain likes surprises. Curiosity is rewarding in itself. Exploring a different way to do something is exciting. Starting a new project you are not totally sure how will turn out is invigorating. Those Eureka moments that come with innovation are very rewarding because they usually come as surprises when we least expected them. Continue reading »
