“It’s not what you do, it’s why you do it that matters” – Simon Sinek
What is Your Identity?
One evening a co-workers called me and offered me a position in his department. It’s a great opportunity, but it’s on night shift which would have taken me away from participating in many of my kids’ activities. So I let him know I’m not interested. I also make sure to thank him and let him know that it means a lot that he would consider me for that position. He responded by saying, “are you kidding me, of course I…
Be Spontaneous, Be a Planner
Have you ever tried tickling yourself? Go ahead, pick your most ticklish part and try it if you haven’t before……..nothing right. So why is that? It turns out that to be tickled requires unpredictable movement/touching and the movement of our own hands is of course predictable to us. This is why we do get tickled when someone else does it or if we touch that same spot with a feather. The movement of others as well as the movement of…
A Great Way to Teach and Get Buy-in
My son came up to me one day and asked me how a certain word is spelled. I responded back with a question, “how do you think it’s spelled?”. He got a look of frustration and eventually answered the question. He responded with the wrong spelling, so then I asked him, “why do you think it’s spelled that way?”. Again, another look of frustration as he hadn’t signed up for this, all he wanted was the answer. But he proceeded…
Linchpin
I recently finished reading “Linchpin – Are You Indispensable” by Seth Godin. In my first post I talk about the fear we get of what could go wrong when wanting to do something different and tell you to not listen to your brain. The author refers to this side of the brain as the “lizard brain”. So what does he call the side of the brain that takes risks, that continues on when faced against fear, the artist! To highlight…
A Better Life: The Plan
So you are convinced you need to do something different with your life, that you want to take action instead of putting things off until tomorrow. But what if you don’t have it all figured out? What if you’re not clear on those things to take action on? Relax, you’re not in the minority on this one. We get so busy in our day to day lives that many times we don’t stop and think of what we really want…
So, what now?
What’s important to you in life? What excites you? What makes you happy? Take a minute to think about this. Now, how many of these things that you just thought about have you been putting off until tomorrow, and more importantly, why? There is a ton of information out there that explains why, and it all leads to one thing, our fear, fear of what could go wrong if we do these things, fear created by our brain’s natural instinct…