We often feel overwhelmed by the volume of information and demands for our attention. In a word, toomuchness. While we may not be able to control how …
Appropriate Pacing
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Do The Footwork And theboss Always Provides
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When anything attempts to fit itself to the universe — or what we call theboss — you can count on two things. 1. The effort will be imperfect. 2. It …
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It’s in The Actions, Not The Results
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I've found that what most people compliment me for is what has been provided by theboss. They compliment me on my intelligence or being successful in …
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Lost in Translation
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For the last 20 years, we’ve added somewhere between one to two thousand words and terms a year to the English language—20,000 to 40,000 in total. …
Good Enuf
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'Good enuf' is an approach to resolving a problem, challenge, or opportunity. Good enuf is effective when we use our previous experience or common …
Picking and Serving
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Time is a mental construct. More bluntly, it’s make-believe. We shape time by imposing constraints with frames we call starts and stops. But time …
It’s All on Loan
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Everything we possess, our so called stuff, is temporary. We forget that we can't take it with us. If we can't take it with us, it was never ours to …
Photographer and Astronaut
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It’s estimated that there are 7.2 billion smartphones in use by 4.8 billion unique users – that's a whole ‘nother post – but it's reference for this …
Symptoms and Synergy
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When byproducts come with consequences that we like, we call them synergy. When byproducts come with consequences that we don't like, we call them …
Waffles, Spaghetti, and Lasagna
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The patterns in the way people communicate are like waffles, spaghetti, and lasagna. Waffles are logical and symmetrical, squares inside of …
Abundance and Complexity
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Abundance isn’t the answer. It’s the problem. When abundance comes in a form we don’t like, we call it complexity. When complexity comes in a form we …
Parts and Interactions
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Everyone is a part of a system and is a system, at least one of each. The question then is, which is the focus? The human condition loves to focus on …