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One of the most difficult things a manager will ever undertake to understand is how to motivate people. The field of industrial psychology has entire subfields dedicated to this topic, as do the fields of education and of course, general psychology. Motivation is an important concept, and it’s worthy of a lot of study. But [...]

The condition of life is one of sometime discomfort, and that the thing we need to do is learn to experience the discomfort, instead of trying to mask it or reject it. If we just let ourselves feel the discomfort and accept it for what it is, we don’t feel compelled to layer on more failures by doing artificial things to mask the discomfort. That way, we learn what needs to be learned from the situation without making additional mistakes. That, by the way, is the original purpose of meditation. If we learn to simply empty our minds of all the “content,” we can learn to be present in the given moment.

If you’ve ever eaten lemon meringue pie (it helps if you enjoyed it, but it’s not essential), the following thought should make some sense to you. It’s even better if you’ve made lemon meringue pie, but I think I can get the non-pie-bakers past the lack of experience. Over the years, colleagues and I have [...]

Having a successful business isn’t just about doing more of what we do well, or doing what we do well even better – it’s about finding out what we should be doing. Now I know there are a bunch of brilliant geniuses out there who can pull this information out of their um, ear, but [...]

In preparation to sell our house, our real estate agent made us thin out our bookshelves. This was no small feat. We have 20’ ceilings in our living room, with built-in book shelves that require a ladder to reach the top. After packing up only half the books we had nearly 40 boxes to take to storage. [...]