Harnassing meaning. Unleashing potential.
Even in the days of instant email, instant videos and instant oatmeal, some things are just too slow.
this weekend I ordered a new mouse for my computer. My old mouse, which I have owned for more than a decade, finally died. So after much deliberation I finally settled on a Logitech G500. I had considered a more expensive Logitech mouse, but decided it wasn’t worth the $30 or $40 difference.
Well Amazon “knew” I was looking at mice and today sent me an email announcing a sale for ...
Psychology. It influences our thoughts, our actions, and the world around us. None of us can escape it. And we’re not talking about Freud here.
A great myth in life is that your work can make you happy. It can’t. The only way work brings meaning to your life is if you bring meaning to your work.
Whether we work from home, in an office, or in the field, we spend more time working than any other activity. Maybe it’s time we looked into what that means.
Things have been a bit slow around here. There have been good and bad reasons for that. The good reasons are involving starting a new consulting project which is eating up a huge amount of my time, while also getting engaged. To a girl, not a consulting project. The bad news is that I have just been lazy (in some sense) about getting things updated on the site. It’s not that I have stopped writing. In fact I have a few month backup of content I’ve created. It’s that I’ve been holding off on doing that until I upgraded the ...
There is a new controversy in Cincinnati, which is where I live. Perhaps the word controversy is too strong. But there is movement afoot on the "dissatisfied people of America" front. Who are the? Well if you read the news you will quickly discover that they are everyone.
Let me explain...
In Cincinnati a group of people who don't believe that a god exists have placed a billboard reading, "Don't believe in God? You are not alone."
Don't panic. This isn't a post about whether you should believe in ...
The last year has been particularly hard on people. The economy has been stagnant at best, and in a free fall at worst. Now there's rumors of a recovery under way. I don't know if that's true or not. That's for economists to debate.
But for the people directly impacted by the economy this has been a painful time. Downsizing often brings health problems (headaches, physical illness, sleeping issues) and emotional problems (depression, anger, stress).
Many people turn to alcohol and drugs ...
Almost any position you apply for, whether it's for a corporation or a non-profit will include an interview. Even most volunteer positions have some level of interview process. This means that we all experience the interview process at least once in our life, if not many, many times.
Research has said for years that the best way to conduct interviews is through a "structured interview." A structured interview is simply one that asks the same questions to every applicant, has standardized scoring, and has questions that are job-relevant. Unfortunately most organizations hire ...
In the original post on the Myth of Stability I mentioned that people like, perhaps even need, stability. It's how we predict what's going to happen to us in the future. It's how we talk ourselves into falling asleep at night. It's how we get up to face the next day. Because lets face it, if you knew disaster was just around the bend, would you really feel like getting up?
But I must concede, not everyone seems to like stability. Take, for instance, ...