Improving Self-Awareness By Exploring Personality
Take a Test, Any TestLast week I wrote about self-awareness. One of the ways we can start developing self-awareness is by understanding our personality. There are several developed models for doing this and many online resources for taking personality tests. If you’ve never done a personality test (and you’re a Harry Potter fan), maybe you […]
A Secret Weapon
Want a Secret Weapon?Wouldn’t you like to have a secret weapon you could just pull out anytime and neutralize any threat that came your way. You’d swagger through life confident, knowing that any situation was within your control. Your current life would instantly become manageable and you’d eagerly look for the next challenge, ready for […]
Here’s to an Awesome 2019!
First, I just want to say a huge thank you to you for subscribing. This is a new and fairly intimidating venture for me, but exciting and fulfilling at the same time. None of it would be possible without you, though. I sincerely appreciate you reading and accompanying me on this journey. For 2019, my […]
Prevent Unreasonable Regret
You’ve heard a story like this: a grandpa got up every Saturday morning to visit the grave of his late wife, placing a flower on it. One day, as his granddaughter accompanied him, he said, “I wish I had given her a flower every Saturday when she was alive. She’d have liked that.” We instantly […]
Learning From Mistakes
Not long ago, I had a gruesome accident involving potatoes, a kitchen mandolin, and me trying to move too quickly. In an instant, my finger slipped, hit the razor thin blade, and the the tip of my thumb was removed and left resting on top of the sliced potatoes. I swore, not because it hurt, […]
A Little Gratitude Can Change Everything
You just came through Thanksgiving and a focus on gratitude. It felt good, didn’t it? Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and one reason (as if turkey and stuffing weren’t enough!) is because I’m spending more time thinking grateful thoughts. Expressing gratitude puts me in a better state of mind. A better state of mind can […]
Three Techniques to Manage Regret and Make Better Decisions
Pain can be a powerful teaching mechanism. We make a mistake, experience pain, and learn to do something different. However, as we go on in life, it can have negative consequences and impact our decision making. As we face new decisions, we consider consequences may feel anticipated regret as we approach decisions. Anticipated regret can […]
A Personal Mantra
I am a person that has a lot of interests, a lot of ideas, and a lot of desires. It can drive me crazy. I get distracted, feel unproductive, and then get discouraged. Maybe you can relate?Several years ago I spent some time thinking and cataloging the things that made me content and happy. If […]
The Problem With Talent Acquisition
HR is about people. And don’t you wish you could rename your department or your title to something that gave proper credit to the importance of those people, rather than referring to them as resources? Google did; they call themselves People Operations. But, they often include a subtitle of (known elsewhere as HR). And that’s […]
Collaboration – Embracing the New World
I was reading a book about the new model of business (http://www.amazon.com/Quit-Your-Job-Months-Should-ebook/dp/B00Y78Y17O) and I came across a phrase that was simple, but one of those forehead-slapping, of course it is, realizations. “… collaboration is the name of the game on the internet-not competition” – Buck Flogging So true, I thought, it’s a different world. I want […]