Don’t Compare Your Behind-the-Scenes to Other People’s Highlight Reel
I don’t know about you, but these days I’m feeling overwhelmed. Adding Sandy, the election, and a nor’easter to the regular business of work and life has left me feeling like I’m drunk and being tossed...
View ArticleBeware The “Have to’s”
Recently, I’ve made a point of flagging ‘have-to’ statements—my own and others’. What do these sound like? “We have to get together.” “I have to get you that information.” “I have to start going to...
View ArticleRight Now all You Need to Be is ‘Directionally Correct’”
It’s the first week of December and I’m guessing in thirty days there will be any number of people who are feeling crummy that they’ve already broken their new year’s resolution, or who are feeling...
View ArticleWow—It’s Time to Buy My Colleagues/My Boss/My Clients a Present
Yes, it seems it’s that time of year—not my favorite, if you must know. (In fact, in my dream world, I would be like Sleeping Beauty: eating the apple that has me fall asleep just before Thanksgiving,...
View ArticleDo the Next, Right Thing
Like so many of you, I’m currently caught between what the calendar is telling me (Tis the season! Peace on Earth! Good will toward men!) and what has been occurring in our world. I believe that, as a...
View Article“To Know is to be Ignorant.”— Or, “It’s 2013: Ask Questions”
One of my favorite philosophers, J. Krishnamurti, stated, “To know is to be ignorant. Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.” I’ve been thinking about this in ways large and small as I wound up my...
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