What is it that you want?
What is it that you really want? Recently I read the following quote from Thomas Merton, it made me stop and ponder the above questions. “Why do we spend our lives striving to be something we would never want to …
Author: Tim Gibney
Would you like to get noticed?
Would getting noticed help you succeed? Would you consider doing any of the following? Driving an Army Tank down New York’s Fifth Avenue to launch a soft drink brand in the United States Crossing from Dover, England to Calais, France in …
Are you self-focused?
Or are you focused on the needs of others? Yes, I know we live in a world that says we must take care of our needs first, but is that really working? I know that you are a lot like …
How are things going?
Are there ways you can move you or your organization from good to great? Are you thinking that there is no need to improve on the way things are? If you are, this is a mistake. I write that because no matter …
What were they thinking?
Why do people do these things? The other day I received a wonderful letter from a charity with some stationary as a ‘gift’. The stationary was well prepared and was of high quality. In fact, it was so wonderful I …
What type of mind-set do you have?
Are you a person who is fixed in your thinking or do you have a growth mind-set? The fixed mind-set according to Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck presumes that our nature, intelligence, and creative capacity are unchanging; meaning that we …
Being optimistic vs. being positive?
Is it important to understand the difference? I think it is and let me tell you why. According to the dictionary being positive is that seeing everything as favorable or encouraging. While according to the same dictionary being optimistic is …
Is work personal?
Are there times in your life when things happen that you take them personally? Well if you do, you are not alone. There have been times when I’ve taken the smallest thing so personal that it ruined the rest of my day. How sad …
Does working remote increase stress?
Does your organization let you work from home at times? According to an August 2015 Gallup research poll; 37% of U.S. workers say they telecommute, up slightly from 30% in the last decade but four times greater than the 9% found …
Are you using the proper form?
Did you know that the key to any strength training program is to build slowly and use the proper form? Are you saying; ‘I’m not interested in strength training!’ If you are not into strength training maybe just maybe you …