Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead. – Tom Peters
The only job security, if there is such a thing, is intelligently growing your skills and abilities to meet future challenges and opportunities with ambition, capability and capacity.
What your learning plan?
How are you growing?
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is. – Publilius Syrus Language is everything to our lives. How we talk about who we are, what we want and what we get is so, so important. The question is: how is your speech? Do you build yourself up, or tear…
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. – Maori proverb Do you, typically, move away from what you don’t want, or towards what you do? The latter is always preferable. I know there are times when moving away is necessary. Just make sure as you’re backing away you turn around…
A good buddy of mine recently asked me how he might invest a nice chunk of money he recently got (a work bonus). Given that I’ve been wanting to start blogging again, I figured I’d gather my thoughts in a blog post, so others might [possibly] benefit. SAVING VS. INVESTING First, there’s the difference between…
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain Your opportunity today (and always): to share your joy with others, and vice-versa.
Make sure you take the time to regularly schedule nothing. If you’re in the habit of always scheduling something, of filling your schedule, make sure you take time for nothing. Not “nothing” in an absolute sense, but times where you just relax or practice being present, with no particular agenda, maybe with a certain (restorative/renewing)…
Who begins too much accomplishes little. – German Proverb Scattered. Harried. Stressed. Frantic. . . . * * * These are the words that describe the day-to-day lives of so many people. It’s what happens when you try to do too much. When you don’t know how to say “No” to the things that match…