Category: Ideas
-
A Thousand Posts
This is my 1000th post. What a cheesball – to post the 1000th post about 1000 posts. I love what Seth Godin says about his blog (and he probably has a few thousand posts) – that you can find some of his ideas on his blog, and some of them…
-
10,000 Dead
That’s what they are saying the death toll is going to be 3 days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. We cannot even fathom that can we. As rescue workers have started to get to the areas that have been hit hard, they are starting to see the damage…
-
Your Life is not the The Things that Happen to You
I heard this line a few days ago. We tend to make the things that happen to use the things that define our identity. If something happens to you, it might have a deep impact on your life and identity, but the things that happen to you is not your…
-
See Yourself in the Eyes of the Other
This is a great identity formation skill – not so much to help someone else form their identity but mainly to learn to see yourself. I don’t think we teach that, although some people just pick up on it intuitively. They are the ones that are able to change. They…
-
Need Drama 3
I’ve written about how much we Need Drama. (Check out Need Drama and Need Drama 2). The main idea is that it is much easier to deal with other people’s drama than deal with our own. Today, it happens to be Charlie Sheen and his drama. People would rather deal…
-
A Generation Has to Die
I don’t even remember what I was listening to, but they were talking about progress and the future. I’m sure it was social media related and how old habits continue to live on. As much as social media is taking over and as many people as there are using it…
-
The Truth about Multi-tasking
…. is that it is not really all that good. The research says that most tasks need a singular focus in order to complete the task. We are living in a world where we walk and conduct meetings at the same time – we drive and text – we surf…
-
Simulated Connection
That’s the kind of connection that happens online. It’s a reaching out to someone that we all need – but for whatever reason – we get online. It’s not like you come over to my house – although you’re definitely welcomed to. We are connected through the screen – through…
-
Facebook is Your New Drug
So evidently, you can look on your Facebook wall and it’ll boost self-esteem. Typically, people only write positive things on your wall. You can look on your wall and see all of these nice things that people say about you. Here’s mine. What happens when you start looking at it…
-
Do You Need Recognition?
Let’s face it. We all need it. I know that more can get done if it doesn’t matter who gets the credit, but that guy that said that was getting all the credit. I was talking with a good friend of mine that works somewhere where he has all the…
-
The Price of Steak
I was in Trader Joes a few days ago. I bought steak, lentils, mushrooms, and a few other things. The guy at the register rang up my lentils twice. He caught himself and took the extra charge off. We talked about the steak that I had picked out and he…
identitySPECIALIST 