How do you expect to finish if you never start?
When we allow ourselves to get lost in our thoughts and explore every inch of a subject we are able to find details that we didn’t know existed. Allowing ourselves this time lets our minds wander and learn, which is crucial to problem solving and critical thinking. To keep our heads down all day and not let our minds explore… Continue reading How Going Down Rabbit Holes Helped Me Stay Sane
Nearly every job in today’s marketplace requires some sort of creativity. We don’t all need to produce oil paintings or music to make good use of creativity. It comes out in our day to day interactions with customers and peers, in our problem solving, and even in our accounting processes. If we are always giving our best to our work,… Continue reading Seven Creativity Tips that are Right Under our Noses
I have had blessings beyond belief in my lifetime, and now is no different. Even as I write this I have no shortage of food, a roof over my head, a woman that loves me, as well as friends and family that would be here to help me if I needed them at the drop of a hat. I have… Continue reading Thanksgiving
We all need things to aspire towards and people to look up to, but too often we see those we people we long to emulate in a jaded lens. By now it’s no secret I’m a huge advocate of setting and following through with goals. Goals to accomplish specific tasks and creating baby steps that helps us get there. And… Continue reading Why heroes are bad for us
We have interactions every day with various businesses from coffee shops to hardware stores to beauty salons and everything in between. Many of these experiences are exactly what we expected, and some of the special ones are even memorable for a period. But what we don’t encounter every day are unforgettable experiences. Experiences that make us tell friends and family… Continue reading Memorable is Bad
Any piece of general information we could ever imagine needing is readily available with the click of a button. It’s easy and fast for us to get the answer to anything we want, just by pressing “search” on a screen. So it stands to reason when we’re in a position of managing others that we have the inclination to want… Continue reading Informational Bottlenecks
I went to Seacoast Church this morning and the message was powerful and inspired me write this today. It’s funny how we can draw inspiration from the varying experiences in our lives if we just look for the connections. I was inspired on one level from the biblical message, but what struck me was their celebration of 25 years since… Continue reading Stand Firm
Wednesday was the beginning of our series on goals and I wrote of the importance of goals as well as how to come up with them. Today I want to elaborate on how to set them in stone, what to do with them once we’ve set them, and how to actually achieve them. The point of setting goals is to complete… Continue reading Follow Through – Goals Won’t Just Attain Themselves (2/3)