Empowering people to reach their full potential
I recently read D. Michael Abrashoff’s It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, and I found it a very enjoyable read. I’d highly recommend it for anyone, but especially those in leadership positions. Abrashoff walks us through 11 fundamentals of leadership he used to turn the USS Benfold around …
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett
If people ask me, “What does it take to be happy?” I always tell them one word: “Progress.” Progress equals happiness. Even if you’re not where you want to be yet. If you’re on the road, if you’re improving, if you’re making progress, you’re going to love it. You’re going to feel alive. On the …
We’ve been told our whole lives that life is hard, but it’s not. Life is incredibly easy if you skate by. Living, truly living — chasing a dream and truly living — is hard. Living is a bitch. The wealthiest place on the planet isn’t in the far east where there’s oil in the ground, …
The guidance on whether or not you should set resolutions for yourself at the start of a new year is a mixed bag. Some say it’s a good practice, while others say it’s a waste of time as most people fail to keep their resolutions through January. Personally, I think it’s always a great idea …
2015 saw me start keeping track of the books I read, and sharing that with the world directly from my reading list as well as on Goodreads. I managed to read a respectable 43 books in 2015 (my goal was 24). Some of them took me a while, some I breezed through in a day. …
The Bodhisattva learns that to be angry at the imperfections of others is, in the words of Shantideva, like resenting fire for its heat or resenting the sky for having clouds. S/he understands that the actions of other people are like forces of nature that arise from causes and conditions that are enormously complex. Rebecca …
I came across a fascinating article recently about Bhutan, a country that despite being one of the poorest in the world, is also one of the happiest in the world. Say what!? That’s right. In the article the author has a conversation with a man responsible for promoting tourism in Bhutan who tells him the …
This is probably going to seem to run counter to everything you might hold near and dear. After all, I’m supposed to be all about improvement, right? We constantly hear about improving ourselves, getting better, this and that. But I’m here to tell you that it’s OK to suck. Sometimes. I mean, don’t go out …
