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If you want to increase your productivity, spend 80% of your resources on the things you are good at by applying Pareto to strengths.…
Listening skills are incredibly important both in personal and business life. If you want to improve your relationship with your significant other, do a better job of listening. If you want to retain your best employees, listen to them. Even if you consider yourself to be a good listener, you can get better.
Let’s begin by looking at four levels of listening.
1. Selective listening—this is where are only tuning into part of what someone is saying. You lack focus. You could be uninterested, multitasking, or in a low energy state. In some cases you may just be pretending to listen.…
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Why is it that we ask this of children, but once they have completed their education, we stop asking and they stop wondering. There are tremendous benefits to maintaining that child-like sense of wonder as an adult.
Over the holidays I met a man who never lost his sense of wonder. He is the model for what I would like to be when I grow up. At 89 years old, he is the only full time resident in a 5 star hotel at the base of Vail Mountain. He skis 100 days a year and is the most popular person in the area.…
This week I am with my family skiing in Colorado. I feel like we have grown closer through the quality time we are spending together. Many of us have an opportunity to take time away from work during the holidays. The question is, can you disconnect from work and focus on other aspects of your life?
I’ll make this week’s blog short and to the point. We all need balance in life. Disconnecting allows you to break up your daily routine. It not only makes life more exciting but allows an opportunity for self-reflection. It also provides health benefits. According to Web MD, taking vacations lowers your risk of heart disease, allows for a better outlook on life, and helps provide more motivation to reach your goals.…
I am at my Colorado home where we are beginning our eighth ski season since buying the house. My two girls (ages 13 and 10) have become amazing skiers. My eldest knows the mountain very well, and she has asked to ski alone on past trips. The answer was always “No.” Yesterday, after hours of skiing, the girls want to keep going without my wife and me… just the two of them…alone…no parents. Despite some trepidation, we decide to say yes. It’s time for us to loosen the reigns. They are capable and I have to begin to trust that they will make good decisions.…
If you’ve read my blogs or listened to my podcasts, you know I always try to look at the positive side of things. More often than not, things end up working out well, but we have all seen situations that don’t. We see others go through tough times but deep down we think, “it won’t happen to me.” I’m watching a friend go through one of those periods right now. She’s a divorced mother with children. Her job experience is in an area that would force her to travel continuously. This is not an option for her as a single mother.…
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