Archive for October, 2009

I was talking to a Caregiver the other day. This Caregiver had recently been in a position to need a Caregiver and had found it difficult to accept. As we spoke she told me the hardest part of her recent illness, a very serious illness, was that she had not expected it or seen it […]

As the Holidays approach, stress mounts.  Like any container, the more you put in it the more pressure. If I were to view my calendar as a container and the dates filled as contents it would explode off my desk every December. Recently, while trying to plan an annual Christmas party the management team and […]

Making Things Work…

…is a lifelong mission for most of us.   Think about it… we spend much our time tweaking and perfecting things while thinking; “once I get this thing just the way I want it life/ work/ ‘things’ will be better.”   We spend much of our time trying to improve on what we have so […]

We all know how hard it is to perform when we are under pressure.   Bottom line; expectations make things more difficult.  If we have no expectations we are always satisfied with the results.  Even bad results far exceed zero expectations.   I vividly remember Mike Tyson’s terror as a boxer on his way to […]