“Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality (not yours).” ~Don Miguel Ruiz Are You Taking Things Personally? Nearly 30 years ago author Don Miguel Ruiz published his ground-breaking book, The Four Agreements. In his book he wrote that…
“Money Changes Everything” – Cyndi Lauper Two Sides of the Same Coin Money is an extremely powerful force. There are volumes and volumes written about its impact on people and society. As with all things there are two sides of every story, coin, and situation. What you choose to believe about that particular topic…
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” ~ Stephen R. Covey Your greatest ability to influence others comes from the fact that influencing others is not an outside-in job … it is an inside-out job! Before I explain why … answer the following questions and be brutally honest with yourself: In most of your…
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ~ Joe Klaas With what seems like a continual flow of untruthfulness and dishonesty from our politicians, the media, and practically every institution, is it any wonder why we have become numb to the whole idea about what it means to be…
“Your extraordinary life will be comprised of all the small incremental choices you make, inching you forward every time you go outside your comfort zone.” ~ Joe Contrera (*An excerpt from Joe’s book, Extraordinary Results For Life, Discover Your Path to Be UN-ordinary) The world will tell you that you are not enough of…
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” ~ Babe Ruth As I reflect over the last twenty-six years of my business, I am struck the…
“Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide things into two distinct groups, with nothing but an empty gap in between.” ~ Hans Rosling The other day I was chatting with a client about the inner-workings at a gold mine. Like many organizations they seem to have an ongoing…
“Time waits for no one.” ~ Yasutaka Tsutsui We all experience times in life when you feel like you get a couple of fast balls thrown at you. They brush you back from the plate, grab your attention, or wake you up rudely. Life deals out it’s fair share of adversity, and it shows up…
“You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one! I hope someday you’ll join us, And the world will be as one” ~John Lennon A number of years ago there was a series of Hewlett Packard commercials whose tag line were “What If?” Since then, a number of folks have adopted…
“Do not fear the loud things that you see and hear, nearly as much as the quiet, silent things that sneak up on you when you stop paying attention.” ~ Joe Contrera Lately, I have observed and heard from folks about number of situations in business that have taken place in organizations that are…