Ideas for a Better Life

I’m catching up on Seth Godin’s blog.  He’s got a posting on Intuition vs. Analysis, encouraging us to trust our gut more, because that’s where great breakthroughs come from. This is something I’ve seen over and over. And while I don’t want to throw out analysis, I think we use way too little of our…

Yesterday afternoon, I charted all the "to-do’s" for my professional life onto Stephen Covey’s quadrants: Urgent and Important Not Urgent and Important Urgent and Not Important Not Urgent and Not Important This was an assignment given to me by my coach last week, when I was feeling overwhelmed. The engineer in me enjoyed the picture…

I’ve had a piece of paper in my "interesting but what to do with it?" pile for about six months. It’s entitled, "An L-Factor Assessment" by Tim Sanders, author of the book, "The Likeability Factor."  It’s a quiz that one can take to understand their Likeability Factor–the ability to create positive or negative feelings in…

I’m pleased to announce a new podcast program, Leading With A WHOLE NEW MIND, based on the book, A WHOLE NEW MIND by Daniel Pink.   Each month, I interview a pioneer whose work is to bring an aspect of right-brain thinking into a left-brain world. So far, I’ve had a blast interviewing a Laughter Yoga…