Resolutions?
You may have started the year with earnest resolutions to eat less, exercise more, spend more time with loved ones, etc., and now it is one month in to the year. How are you doing? Tell me, did anything go right? Honestly, I didn’t even make any resolutions knowing I would be on vacation until […]
Los Angeles – we will rise!
The helicopters are still circling. The winds are coming back. The fires are not out. Houses are gone. People are still evacuated. The houses that remain are smoke damaged. No one is going back in until the toxic remains are removed….AND YET…. we will rise! Los Angeles – we will rise! Together, we will rebuild […]
Desperately seeking peace and quiet?
Is turning your brain off enough to go to sleep a problem for you? Or, are you waking up in the middle of the night and awake for hours? How about the kids waking you up because, well, they are small children, and that’s what kids do? It seems like in one way or another […]
Don’t waste your energy on what you can’t control
This week, I have spent many hours talking Members through their disappointment and fears around the outcome of the election. Higher tariffs, anti-immigrant policies, hateful and divisive language threaten their business success and members of their families and their communities. I find wise counsel once again in the leadership principles outlined by Stephen Covey in the […]
Make more money
I was meeting with a business owner the other day, and we had a conversation we have had several times before: How can they make more money? Does this sound like you? They are investing in more people, they are opening more locations, and they have more sales. Isn’t that pretty sweet? AND, their bottom […]
Got patience?
Not patience? Let’s line up at the starting line and let’s go! We don’t have time to wait for stragglers. Last one in is a rotten egg.
Chunk and gamify your goals
Once you have set your goals, how do you chunk them down into smaller, achievable steps? Some people set an intention and it manifests for them without much thought or effort. If this is NOT you, read on. The rest of us mortals need more structure.
Fishing is down, phishing is up
After 3 Vistage meetings this week where Technology Strategic Planning speaker, Joe Beaulieu, spent at least 40 minutes discussing Cybersecurity, I came home to find a phishing email addressed to 2 of the meeting attendees from a third. I texted the supposed sender with a photo of the email and he immediately replied “phishing”.
Preparing FOR change
The rains have started as Hurricane Hilary moves on shore into California. The path has shifted east so Los Angeles will not be in the center. When we left Mammoth yesterday to make sure we prepared in LA, we didn’t think Mammoth would be directly in the path. Now it is. Mammoth had 70 feet […]
Be a little wild
So much of our time is spent in controlled environments, we begin to believe we are in control of our world. Just around sunset, we had a visitor at our condo in Mammoth. This little bear was not particularly dangerous as it wandered through town looking for a trash can it could eat from. But, […]