Right or Happy Most people when asked whether they would rather be right or happy say that they would rather be happy. But most of the time, their behavior says just the opposite. Would it be possible to have a fight with your significant other (or anyone else for that matter) if you weren’t trying […]
Rejection
April 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Rejection Most people have a deep seated fear of rejection. And that rejection usually means: I don’t matter, I don’t belong, or I’m not enough. However, no one actually has the power to truly reject another person because rejection is just an opinion – not the truth. So when we experience rejection, we are actually […]
Look at me look at me
March 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Look at me look at me I watched a little March Madness basketball this afternoon. Baylor got upset by Yale. Based on a very small amount of data, Baylor seems to be a group of individuals who are more concerned about looking good and individual accomplishments than a team interested in winning. I saw a […]
Sloppy Language and questionable ownership
March 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Sloppy Language and questionable ownership We are very careless with the words “I am” and “I have”. Those are words of identity and declaration that are very powerful. And we use them so haphazardly, identifying ourselves as or with things that if we stopped to think about it we certainly wouldn’t want to identify with. […]
But what will they think?
March 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Coach gets his buttons pushed and pushes back
March 3, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Coach gets his buttons pushed and pushes back I’ve been thinking all day about a facebook thread I read this morning. It is a great case study. The volleyball coach made a substitution. The substitute promptly served into the net. The player who had been subbed for said, “seriously” and the coach heard her. She […]
Legal rights and self-condemnation
February 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Legal rights and self-condemnation Imagine that we have to go get a permit anytime we want to change ourselves and that the permitting process happens court room style. So there we are in court submitting our proposal to do better in business and then the prosecutor pulls out this long list of times and dates […]
Credo upgrade
February 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment
100 hash mark game
February 13, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Two Pitchers
February 12, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Two Pitchers We are always pouring into others. Imagine that you have a pitcher in each hand. One is filled with pure delicious cold clear refreshing water. The other is filled with warm cloudy polluted water. Which pitcher are you pouring into the people you interact with? Which pitcher are you pouring into yourself? Much […]
