Socially Acceptable Cynicism Building a quality business team requires a sufficient degree of mutual trust. Yet, if you’ve been in business long enough, you’ve learned to be at least marginally skeptical. We seldom get the complete picture the first time we interact with someone. Insurance companies rarely if ever give...
Repent
It’s Not What You Think In all likelihood, the greatest thing you can do to develop your business does not involve learning something new. That’s problematic for people in my business because we are all about helping people discover something new they have not previously known that can ignite productivity...
Choose
How Do You Make Decisions? Life is made up of one decision, one choice, after another. How do you make them? There are many things that are part of reality that we take for granted but that are actually amazing. Choices is one of those. To choose is to change...
Sanctify
“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind,” … so wrote George Orwell, author of the book, 1984. Orwell coined phrases or new definitions of phrases like: Big Brother, newspeak, doublethink, thought police, and more....
Simple Obedience
When we get sick of doing the hard thing of obeying what we already know, we go looking for new answers. Simple: With all of the amazing acrobatics basketball great Michael Jordan was able to do, a key thing that made him great was simply being able to make a...
More than Existence
Beyond my mother, I have three key girls in my life – my two daughters and my wife. All three of them love animals. I don’t mind animals… They love them. I can like your animal… I’m not necessarily wanting one of my own. For my three girls, life is...
Contentment & the Status Quo
Contentment, ambition, status quo, drive, driven, satisfaction, jealousy, achievement, desire, coveting, acceptance, rejection, dream, goal. Each of these words relates to motivation and to varying degrees provokes an internal reaction. Are they good things? Are they productive? Are they allowed? Does it depend on the circumstances? Truthfully, it is easier...
Perspective
Houses are clearly a lot bigger than ants. But if you look down on houses from a long distance, they look the size of ants. Train tracks are always perfectly parallel, but if you look at a long line of tracks, it looks like the tracks touch way in the...