Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
May 22, 2022
Via Negativa- It’s an ancient Latin phrase, and it means “by way of negation.” The origins of this term can be traced to a concept in ancient theology which sought to understand God by negating everything that God was not. Read more…
May 21, 2022
Steve Jobs once famously said something profound. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that Read more…
May 20, 2022
Last weekend I was re-reading Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning. I came across a paragraph on Success that I had highlighted during one of my earlier reads of the book. It is a good life mantra worth adopting. Reproducing it below. Read more…
May 18, 2022
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. ==================================== There can be no better Read more…
May 17, 2022
A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw, the less he spoke The less he spoke, the more he heard, Now, wasn’t he a wise old bird?
The kind of life you are leading today is a compounded consequence of all choices you have exercised all your life-up until this moment. The tricky thing with our day-to-day choices is that the consequences are never evident in the Read more…
May 15, 2022
Once upon a time, in a small village, there was only one clean drinking water well that every family relied upon. One day a stray dog was playing along the skirting when it fell into the well and died. By Read more…
May 14, 2022
There is a difference between data and information. Data is a collection of facts, while Information is the organization, analysis, and interpretation of the facts. We make our decisions and choices based on the information we have. Data is everywhere, Read more…
May 13, 2022
Colin Powell was the first black U.S. Secretary of State. (Despite the smoking gun fiasco at the UN that led to the Iraq war!!) In the foreword to his acclaimed memoir It Worked For Me: In Life And Leadership, Colin Read more…
May 12, 2022
Whether you are a busy business executive dealing with a colleague who never sticks to deadlines, a frustrated customer seeking a response to repeated complaints, or a parent trying to get your teenager to be more compliant, we often find Read more…
