by John | Dec 30, 2020 | Attitude, Planning
Urgent and important are not the same the thing. Something can be urgent or important or both or neither. A phone ringing is urgent (answer now answer now answer now) but it usually isn’t important. What are you spending your time on? Urgent? Important? Neither?...
by John | Dec 28, 2020 | Attitude, Planning
Taking a deep breath from time to time is a good idea. It slows you down, re-centers you, it just feels good. The week between Christmas and New Years Day has always felt like a deep breath to me. I take this week to summarize my past year and plan my next. I’m...
by John | Dec 23, 2020 | Attitude, Purpose
Hope is not a wish. We seem to use the word that way sometimes, but it isn’t quite right. Hope is a confident expectation of a positive outcome. Expectation. That is the key to hope. It isn’t just wanting something to happen, it is expecting it to happen....
by John | Dec 18, 2020 | Attitude, Good
You know, being a friend doesn’t mean agreeing with everything the other person says. It doesn’t mean liking all the same books or movies. It doesn’t mean dressing the same. All of these can be true, but it isn’t what’s important. Being a...
by John | Dec 14, 2020 | Attitude, Planning
Do you have any goals? Most people don’t. A lot of people have wishes about someday. There’s nothing wrong with that. If you want that goal to really drive you though, you need to make it specific. What do you want (exactly) and when will you achieve it...
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