A better Way to Do Things Yesterday I wrote about business with Karis – grace, love, and kindness. Then today I met a guy who talked about the economics of dignity. And I’ve heard Dr Jackson, the founder of Project CURE, talk many times about the economics of goodness. What if the purpose of business […]
Persistence, courage, resistance, and risk
September 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Persistence, Courage, Resistance and Risk Persistence is a key success factor in any endeavor. However, persistence can easily get derailed if we don’t understand the relationship between courage, resistance, and risk. If there isn’t any risk in our lives, then we are not living a life that is worth living. We are not anywhere near the […]
Effective communication
September 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Effective Communication Effective communication (effective selling, effective speaking, effective relationship building, effective persuasion, effective discussion, effective asking for what we want) starts with us getting our attention off of ourselves and onto the other person or onto the “we” that makes up the relationship. If our attention is just on ourselves and how that other […]
Risk, vulnerability, and getting what you want
September 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Risk, Vulnerability, and Getting What You Want I recently witnessed a father daughter interaction. It seemed that the teenager daughter was supposed to go into the restaurant and buy some to-go food while dad stayed in the car. However, the daughter didn’t seem to want to go by herself and was begging the father to […]
Our packrat brains
August 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Our Packrat Brains Imagine a packrat’s room stacked full of old newspapers, boxes, and junk. The room isn’t useable because there’s so much unneeded and not useful stuff. And it certainly isn’t comfortable to be in that room. But if we start emptying that room, with every load of trash we carry out, the room […]
First choices and first impressions
August 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
First Choices and First Impressions Regardless of the first impression (or second or third or…) someone makes, we still get to choose how we look at that person. We can look through eyes of love, kindness, and compassion. Or, we can look through other eyes. Much Love, Jonathan Help me out please ~ if this […]
It is not up to us whether the fish bite
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Knighthood
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The cure for loss of momentum
July 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The cure for loss of momentum When we are driving, we lose momentum for all kinds of reasons – stoplights, stop signs, traffic patterns, detours, bad driving by others, etc. However, this is certainly not a problem. It is simply a part of driving. And, it is really easy to start regaining momentum – step […]
Procrastination always makes sense
July 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Procrastination always makes sense We can become very frustrated with ourselves when we procrastinate. However, when we uncover the lousy or limiting story that we are telling ourselves about that action or activity, we see that procrastination is always a perfectly appropriate response to that story. The cure then is simple. Tell ourselves a different […]
