I Want an Accountant Who Goes Home at Six
I was in a meeting today and one of the attendees is a tax professional. It’s tax season of course, so she was explaining that she will be working until midnight. Maybe I’m odd, but my first reaction is that I don’t want my taxes to be prepared by someone at midnight. Or 11 PM […]
Un-Tether from Technology Safely in 2014
If you’re a thoroughly modern person, you are probably pretty well tethered to your technology. That means you are never far from your email, cell phone, text messages, and social media. Generally speaking, these are good things. But you might be too connected. If you are too connected, your addiction to these technologies is actually […]
Some Days Are Just Good Days
Yesterday, my daughter wandered in and asked me if I had a good day. Yes. Yes I did! “Oh,” she said, “What happened?” Oddly enough, nothing spectacular. It was a not-too-busy day, but still filled with lots of good little things. No big events. No big projects. No surprises. Nothing spectacular. But . . . […]
Put More Balance in Your Balance!
I’m a big advocate of balance. In work and play and everything else. Ironically enough, you have to WORK at balance: It simply won’t happen by itself. Part of balance means saying no. Make that “NO!” Business owners tend to be doers and joiners. When someone drops a request on our laps, we tend to […]
Vacations and Balance
As we prepare for the Christmas vacation in the U.S., my mind wanders to vacations and family gatherings. These are sometimes combined and often separated. I remembered, as a kid, that traveling to see cousins in another city was just was much fun as driving to see a national park or an old fort. For […]
I Broke My Addiction
Phones haven’t been phones for awhile now. Those who use their phones to make phone calls are “quaint” to the technorati that use their phones for buzzing around the world, twittering, Facebooking, searching, browsing, yelping, 4squaring, texting, and . . . well . . . everything but making phone calls. I used to have a […]
Too Excited to Make Good Decisions
Last week I had a chat with my girlfriend Ronda about some changes to my business. Like many of us, Ronda leads a busy life and can get caught up in the daily buzz, buzz, buzz. But in this instance, she showed me two very important lessons about important decisions. I have a tendency to […]
Relax . . . I Am Already!
Focus will allow you to accomplish amazing things in a short amount of time. But you also need the relaxation component to make that work.
Game Theory
In college-level psychology courses, one of the fun things you get to do is train mice. In addition to being easy, training mice helps you learn a lot about behavior generally and rewards and punishments specifically. Someone should write a book on training mice for kids. It’s simple. An 8 year old that can learn […]
Leave Room for a Personal Life
If you don’t leave an opening in your life for a personal life to show up, then it never will.
