Marriage

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.

Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly.

She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why? Continue reading

Customers like to feel that they are buying – not being sold.

Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Continue reading

The Future of Management

Turns out that in an age of wrenching change and hyper-competition, the most valuable human capabilities are precisely those that are least manage-able. Continue reading

And don’t try to change everything all at once; instead, be sure to change something fundamental.

So don’t keep looking for patterns and tormenting yourself with what’s wrong with you: that could be just another pattern. And whatever you do, don’t identify yourself with your pain, your suffering and sore spots, otherwise you’ll never be free of them. Continue reading

You choose to be insulted

“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”

– Epictetus Continue reading

Notice what is reflected

“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

– Epictetus Continue reading

More than one flavor of procrastination……

There’s more than one flavor of procrastination. People procrastinate for different reasons. Continue reading