Exploring How Change Affects People
When the lottery zoomed to $750 million over the weekend, I bought into the fantasy and picked up a ticket. Then I started thinking about what I would do if I actually won all that money or even a good portion of it. The dreams were distracting me, so I sat down and made a …
Last night, I wondered why I had suddenly started breaking out in a rash. I started to get worried – great, just what I need, another ailment. Then I remembered that I had run out of my allergy medicine last week. I was experiencing the Rebound Effect. This effect occurs when you have been medicated …
That is how my day started: crash! I woke, groggy from lack of sleep, driven out of bed by the sound of the 7 a.m. pounding that greets my weekday mornings now – two massive pile-drivers, pounding away at the bedrock at the end of the block, chipping away a hole for a new foundation …
Do you find yourself tempted by those self-assessments on the internet? The ones that encourage you to take inventory of your life, your strengths, what’s holding you back, and promise to provide direction? I am inevitably suckered in by these assessments. I faithfully copy them into Word, and spend hours completing them, getting more and …
People have often accused me of being an optimist, as if “accusing” were the right thing to do when confronted with an optimist. I remember one executive who, when I shared with her my vision for transforming my team of data entry “pair of hands” workers into true store communicators, looked at me with great …
