When things go wrong and we feel failure and frustration, if we give some space it will allow us to get things done that we have been putting off. And that is a better result than continuing to shove the thing we don't want to do to the back of our minds. Regret is miserable, [...]
Sometimes when life is going really well, we have opportunities offered to us to go a different path. To fit another person's idea of success. Maybe you are doing well at your job. You love your job. Perhaps you view something else in the future, let's say opportunity X. But for now, you are good [...]
Often, the information that we don't want to hear is THE most important. We may want to hear that information, and be most grateful to those who do not take the easy way out. But that doesn't mean it will be easy, or that we will always be graceful. When we give feedback, it is [...]
I've been overcome recently as I notice how much I hate disappointing others. Sometimes it's subtle. These I need to work around, but it will be more challenging. Other times I am just being ridiculous. For example, we had a recent Airbnb guest who asked, the day before their last night, to stay an extra [...]
You are working with a computer software program from a large company. Something goes wrong. Or you want to learn how to do something, but can't find it in the help feature and do not even know how to begin searching to find the answer to your question. You really want to talk to a [...]
If you keep trying something and it isn't working, or doesn't get easier for you, maybe you are doing the wrong thing. This is advice I received recently, and I think it's good advice in the right circumstances. Generally, 'the right things', or the items that lead to success, happiness, and achieving our goals, are [...]
I was inspired by a story recently of someone who said that the more he learned about successful people, the more he realized how messy everyone's lives really are even though they still do great things. This recognition allowed him to get past some of his own barriers and led to achieving many goals he [...]
In the last few months I have been interviewed twice in very different contexts...and yet they are oddly related. The first I have been shy to share, but now, with the second, I feel it is a good time to share this personal story of sorts. There is an organization called Dads of Daughters, started [...]
We pay 10s or 100s of thousands to attend college. Some view this as a learning opportunity. If you go right after high school or shortly thereafter, it is a pivotal age of development, and in the United States anyway, students are often learning both in class as well as moving closer to learning how [...]
I just passed my two year anniversary of writing or sharing something here daily. It started to share stories and experiences with triathlon, then morphed to something else, and continues to morph. I'm not sure what this blog will become. Currently I'm all over the place, but I appreciate having a place to share thoughts, [...]
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