Based on our research and your response, we’ve listed this years top 10 blog posts.  Several hit a real “need”  in your lives.  Some of my favorites were not on the list, but yours are. Here’s what we did. A. We identified our top 10 posts. 1. Email Insanity and Other Neurotic Behaviors 2. A Changing of...Read More

ALERT! Almost half of Americans will set New Year’s resolution.  Only 8% will be successful.    92% will have failed by February 1st. Here’s the good news 🙂 You have a healthy desire to improve on your life. You would like to delete some behaviors and add others. Here’s the bad news 🙁 Autopilot takes...Read More

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I think the reason I appreciate it so much is because it helps simplify my life.  It focuses on gratitude and a thankful disposition.  When I begin to think and feel what I am thankful for, it usually excludes many of the things that complicate my life.  I see them...Read More

The world that lies before us is often a mysterious, and sometimes a frightening place.  Navigating it effectively takes a personal quest for authenticity. Authenticity allows us to live a life of courage, compassion, and connection.  It does not eliminate anxiety, but it tempers it so that it does not become a lifestyle.  As we...Read More

Failure and mistakes don’t create anxiety.  Anxiety is created by the fear of failure and mistakes.  Anxiety takes our precious energy and consumes it in a future place that is not real.  Energy is only productive when exercised in the present. “Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly experiencing failure in advance.  What a waste.” —Seth Godin...Read More

I recently spoke to the Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium in Oklahoma City and then Tulsa on 6 strategies to strengthen our integrity in a greedy world.   How is it possible to “Face the herd?”  As a result, I was interviewed by The Company Ethicist, a San Francisco based organization, on what it means to...Read More

The study of happiness goes back thousands of years.  So much of it deals with the human brain.  The experts—neurologists–remind us that the brain is still a mystery.  Yet it is helpful at a layman’s level to understand some basic things about the way our brains function in relationship to happiness. For the past few...Read More

Trust is key to an individual’s or a company’s success, yet only in recent years has any thoughtful discussion of anything to do with trust appeared in business school curriculum.  Too often it’s not talked about until it’s hurt or eroded.  Even then, rather than discussing it, we simply choose to show it in our...Read More

How things have changed!  What use to be derogatory — “having your head in the clouds” — has become the best connected way of life. It amazes me how cloud computing has integrated all my apparatuses and made my computing a little more seamless. As long as my wireless is working I have instant access...Read More

The Boston Consulting Group gives some interesting trends. By 2016 there will be 3 billion internet users globally—almost half the world’s population. The internet economy will reach $4.2 Trillion in the G-20 economies. As a national economy it would rank in the world’s top five, only behind the U.S., China, Japan, and India, but ahead...Read More