Here Are 5 Ways To Develop It click hear to listen to the audio blog “I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein We live in a target-rich environment.  As a result it’s easy to get distracted from a strategic life and chase after so many things that seem important. ...Read More

It’s hard to stand up for someone you don’t know, including yourself.  The task of defining one’s self gets caught up in our attempts to protect ourselves with a bucket full of defense mechanisms.  This in turn confuses the journey of discovering who you are.  Self-understanding is warped with the image we attempt to project. ...Read More

(5 Habits Of Highly Interesting People)   I love “The most interesting man in the world” commercials.  Like — “He would not be afraid to show his feminine side – if he had one.” “His mother has a tattoo that reads…’Son’”. “At museums he’s allowed to touch the art.” “There is a place in Siberia...Read More

Be Wise…..Prioritize! Now we know Santa manages a large staff and produces a huge volume of products.  He is obviously very skilled at producing the right culture and motivating a very large workforce with a variety of talents.  I’m sure he deals with the budgetary constraints that come from running a worldwide enterprise. Yet there...Read More

Why Is It So Difficult and What Does It Have To Do With Resilience? Let’s start with a self-assessment.  This week did you… *procrastinate more than you wish you did? *exercise less than you wish you did? *eat more than you wish you did? *think more negatively than you wish you did? *react more unkindly...Read More

Do you remember what you did the first hour of every school day?  You went to your Homeroom.  In doing so you would enter your day slowly.  You would catch up with friends and get a couple of things done so you could focus on the day before you. Those days are long gone.  Most...Read More

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Albert Einstein We manage time, waste time, spend time, save time.  We wish the time would come.  We wish the time would pass.  We see time fly.  We feel time drag.  We watch clocks and carry calendars, creating the illusion that we...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

What Does Science Say? The concept of multitasking has grown in concert with the rapid increase in technology. For me on a personal level, this has blurred stopping points, boundaries, and finish lines. You’ve experienced this. No matter where we retreat, our work follows us closely. Like a bad rash, we know that scratching the...Read More

Is Multi-focusing Possible? When we hear admonitions like, “eat less”, “floss your teeth”, “exercise more”, we know intuitively that we should.  Yet we often live as though it’s not true.  In a similar way, deep down inside we have this sneaking suspicion that ricocheting from one thing to another is not as productive as we...Read More