Safer to Disengage This little head trash gem, “It is safer to disengage” creates a lot of hesitation, procrastination, and avoidance. Countless dreams have died from this. After all, safety and survival is the number one human need so if it is not safe to engage, we probably won’t engage. Pay attention to your body […]
Value of one push up
August 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Value of one push up One push up. Does it really matter? By itself, one pushup is insignificant. It isn’t going to change our bodies. But we cannot have a lot of pushups without a bunch of individual insignificant pushups. So, maybe one pushup isn’t so insignificant after all. Each one matters. Each one we […]
Unfolding Perfectly
August 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Unfolding Perfectly Being in Alaska has given me several opportunities to reflect on my life and how it has perfectly unfolded. Looking back, I can see those forks in the road where if I had turned a different direction, my life would look very different than it does now. Laura, who took us on a […]
It isn’t about choosing between hard and easy
August 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
It isn’t about choosing between hard and easy Because people typically look at things from a very short term view point, they often think that the choice is between hard and easy. And then, people are inclined to choose easy. But when we expand that view point, we see that the choice is between hard […]
Flower Gardens and Personal Growth
June 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Flower Gardens and Personal Growth I was looking at my flower gardens this morning and comparing the 4 different flower beds. One is new this year. Two are three years old. One is older. They are all planted with perennials. The new garden looks good. The plants are small with plenty of space between […]
Hopeless and helpless
June 19, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Hopeless and helpless If we have a situation in our lives that we have been unable to change or even to make progress on over quite some time, there’s a very good chance that we have developed some beliefs that the situation is hopeless and that we are helpless to do anything about it. Check […]
Layers of the Onion
June 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Bonus Audio from Hugh Liddle show
April 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
My friend, Hugh Liddle, invited me to be a guest on his Sales Chalk Talk Radio Show last week. Hugh is a fan of the Daily Dose. So on the show we went into greater depth on some of the Daily Dose topics. Hope you enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/sct-show/sales-chalk-talk-184-jonathan-manske Much Love, Jonathan I write these Daily Doses because I […]
Crazy Paralyzed
April 23, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Crazy Paralyzed We’ve all had those experiences where we know there’s something that we should do and for the life of us we cannot bring ourselves to do it. It is like an alien took over our brain or something crazy like that. The thing to remember in these situations is that there is a […]
How do I overcome what my brain sees as normal, a set point?
April 5, 2016 by Leave a Comment
How do I overcome what my brain sees as normal, a set point? I was asked this question today and here are a couple of thoughts: It’s useful to view ourselves as sculptors. They take thousands of hammer swings as they chip away and the work of art emerges. Every swing moves the project forward. […]
