Dare To Fail

Dare To Fail

Carpe Diem! Seize The Day What a great rallying cry on a Monday morning. What a great way to start your day or the beginning of your project. Yes! Today will be a success! The enemy of “seize the day” is procrastination. Soon after you you cry out “Carpe...
Taking notes in the shower

Taking notes in the shower

  There are many ways that I take notes and put them into my trusted system. This could be a note in Omnifocus or a text file in a job folder for instance. Note apps that I use on my iPhone and iPad include, Drafts, Note2Self, Omnifocus, Simplenote and Evernote....
Is your path to growth Easy Hard or Hard Easy?

Is your path to growth Easy Hard or Hard Easy?

I have become a fan of Mark Miller’s blog Great Leaders Serve. Mark teamed up with Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager to write Great Leaders Grow: Become a Leader for Life. A great book that I recommend to everyone. You will know the name Ken Blanchard as...
In praise of the Williams-Sonoma dish towel

In praise of the Williams-Sonoma dish towel

When my wife and I married over 13 years ago we made sure to have a gift registry at Williams-Sonoma. Among the gifts we received were,what seemed to me at the time, some of the most expensive dish towels known to man. Not sure if the cost reflected the quality or the...
A SMART goal will deliver success

A SMART goal will deliver success

I was taking a training and at the end they assigned homework. They asked me to develop and write out my goal that related to the program. It specifically asked me to develop a SMART goal. If you are not familiar with this mnemonic it stands for: S – Specific M...

You need a white board

I love the white board. I didn’t think I would at first. I had been held captive in too many meetings where the presenter scribbled away as he spoke, thinking we would be able to decipher his frenetic chicken scratch. More than likely he did not have fresh pens...