Category: Planning

Build Others 

Build up other people.  We are too often concerned with recognition and credit. Competition in our careers and lives can, indeed, be fierce, and human nature compels us to ensure

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Difficult Conversations 

We have to have them, and we often procrastinate, avoid, or ignore them…difficult conversations.  But life doesn’t wait for us. Too often, in our rush to put off the tough conversations,

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Pay Taxes Gladly 

At least once a year, maybe once a quarter, we deal with our taxes. But a quote from Ryan Holiday’s Daily Stoic made me think about this differently recently. 

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Enough…Again… 

I still think this idea is important enough to re-visit it at the end of the year, so here we go again…  Merriam-Webster defines “enough” as “occurring in such quantity,

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Do Good 

We spend a lot of our lives working with, working for, serving with, and serving others. However, customer service seems to be getting worse and

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Contributions 

So many businesses and business owners look for recognition and appreciation. Look instead to make a contribution.  I used to ask college students in my

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Fewer, But Better 

Do fewer things but do them better with greater focus and intensity.  Success breeds all kinds of new opportunities, requests, and competing demands for your

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Do Your Part 

We spend a lot of time trying to change others, molding the world to work the way we want it to, and expressing frustration when

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