[Reference: “Like You Mean It” Louisville Magazine 12.16, pp. 38-45] This article took up the challenge of charting a profitable and productive path for personal development in the year 2017. Outlined suggestions and admonitions follow. (NOTE: I’ve used the LM categorical listings but re-engineered the summations for more global applications.) SAVE MONEY The nature…
Some things in life are guaranteed to work and some are guaranteed NOT to work. However, due to inexperience, ineptitude, “natural tendencies” and a whole host of other factors, we tend to gravitate toward things that don’t work. Things that don’t work generally offer some level of immediate gratification and/or perceived delayed ramification with minimal…
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF What does it take for you to believe in yourself? Something as simple as looking in the mirror? Or something more? How about accomplishments? There’s nothing like “proving yourself” to make believing a positive reality. Pick a reachable objective or goal and go make it happen. Then pick an impossible one and…
Lamenting the “State of the Workforce in 2016”, I shared with our Business Owners’ Advisory Board (BOAB) my feedback from the state Workforce Development (WFD) Office, which indicated that the main problem in WFD is finding prospects with ANY INCLINATION AT ALL to BE “Developed”. An astute member of the group said she is not…
“It’s like brains get wired differently over time.” – Elizabeth Warren [Commenting on the evolving and often contradictory regulations for major financial institutions] In fact, life is nothing if it’s not about “getting wired differently over time”. We start out with a very small window on the world and with only nominally imprinted neuroplasm. Then we…