What story do you want inscribed on your tomb someday? #365books
Category: Self-Management
365 Books: Vital Friends by Tom Rath
People with "best friends at work" are seven times more likely to be engaged. But how do you make friends at work - or anywhere, for that matter? #365books
Distraction and Rumination
As I was doom-scrolling my news feed the other day, I stumbled across an article entitled, "A Surprising Reason Why Depressed People Don't Get Better." (Psychology Today, October 13, 2023, if you want to Google it.) The article discussed two techniques that can help people overcome depression and talked about several studies where they taught …
Always Be Ready
Are you ready to answer when opportunity knocks? Someone once told me, “Always Be Ready.” Since they told me this in the context of public speaking, I took it as a sign that I always needed to be ready to give a speech. And I decided if no one else signed up for a speech, …
I Felt Like I Had Lost My Voice
In 2017, I had just left a job where I had been a voice. I had been the voice of the people I served: listening to their stories, bringing them back to company leadership, turning them into action that moved the needle. I had been my VP's voice, too: writing his weekly executive blog illuminating …
