I have noticed that my blog posts have been longer recently. I have been told that this is not the best direction to be taking them. People have limited amounts of time to spend reading – or doing anything else for that matter. Therefore, the instruction is to be short and sweet. One online subscription [...]

Trust! I have been thinking about it a lot recently. My online dictionary defines trust as “a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability or strength of someone or something.” When I searched on the word, I got over 300 million entries. Not surprising overall. What was surprising to me were the number of websites [...]

I traveled on American Airlines last week. It was an interesting experience in how people shape our experience of organizations. Essentially, I had four flight segments. Three of those four were significantly impacted by “mechanical difficulties”. If nothing else, I am concerned about airplane safety. With so many mechanical difficulties taking place, you really have [...]

Wow! The messages have been coming fast and furiously! Every where I turn over the past few days, I keep hearing about how thoughts create reality, how the secret of The Secret is action aligned with positive thoughts, and how releasing problems and embracing a deep belief in the positive and loving nature of the [...]

Tax day! It’s done! My taxes are done – and I’m done in. I need a vacation! So tomorrow I’m going out of town to spend the weekend with some old friends in northern Ohio. It will be a short trip because I still have a lot to do here (like filing all that paperwork [...]

I have been going crazy trying to get my taxes done. It’s not the taxes themselves that are so hard. I know how to do that part. It is the lack of effective record keeping that I let happen over this past year. Plus, I moved again in 2009, from one apartment to another, and [...]

Have you seen the number of television shows now on the air about people who are hoarders? It started out a few years ago with one, then two, and now there are probably four or five different versions of this kind of program. And each one shows more extreme examples than the previous one! I [...]

Ever been stuck in a position where you felt caught between a rock and a hard place? I found myself in such a position last week. I had to make a choice and there were no good choices to be had – at least from my perspective. Everywhere I looked, everything seemed to lead to [...]

It is April Fool’s Day – a day traditionally dedicated to pranks and hoaxes. The actual origin of this custom is unknown, but its practice has been around for centuries. Truthfully, I’ve never been much for pranks and hoaxes. I don’t find them amusing. I prefer to laugh “with” someone rather than “at” someone. I [...]