I had a scare this week. Without notice, my credit card company lowered my credit limits to only a few hundred dollars above my current balances. Essentially, they took away any purchasing power I had with those cards. They were my two primary cards, my MasterCard and my Visa, both with the same company. For [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So last week I spent some time in a two-day seminar. It was Session 2 of a three-session process. I spent the first day being frustrated with that process. I felt that I had followed it reasonably well between Session 1 and Session 2, but that my results were not anywhere near what I had [...]

[Continued from my Monday, March 22, 2010 post.] So after hearing the fly story over and over, I decided I needed to sit down and really look at this. After all, here it was in my life many different times in a very short period. And I really wanted to know, what was the solution [...]

In the past several weeks, I have been told “the fly story” at least four times. One day I heard it twice on the same day! If you haven’t heard the fly story yet, it goes like this. A door is left open and a fly gets into a room. The fly makes its way [...]

I spent some time recently talking with some people about best next steps toward achieving my goal of earning a living doing the work I love – helping others achieve their own goals. It has been said that we teach what we most need to learn, and in my own case, this is very true. [...]

I attended part two of my improv class this past Sunday. As homework from the first class, the instructor asked us to pick a character type, put together a costume, and participate in the class as that character. I decided to go as a fundamentalist preacher. It was an easy choice for me, being raised [...]

I’m a little behind on getting stuff done at the moment. My Saturday got shot because my apartment building caught fire!! Yes, there was a fire – a fairly serious one if you count the number of fire trucks, ladder trucks, emergency vehicles, police cars, etc. that showed up – 10 in all! So I’ll [...]