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Category: Ideas

  • Setting Goals

    The year is ending.  The new year is coming.  Have you set goals yet?  Do you set goals?  What is your strategy?  What do you do in goal setting?  How do you do it? I normally start at the end of the year – like the last day.  If I…

  • It Doesn’t Matter How Much You Have

    … if you can’t enjoy it, what good is it. I guess it does fill a need; a void.  I was walking with a friend and we happened to see someone we know driving around in a really, really nice car.  It led to a conversation about filling out lives…

  • Constructing an Identity Self-Structure

    Everyone is in the process of identity formation.  Everything that you’ve done and everything you’ve experienced has formed your sense of identity and self.  Every thought you think and relationship that you are in – form you and your identity.  Everyone has an Identity Self-Structure – some system of organizing…

  • LL26: Leadership and Criticism

    If you are in leadership – if you are in a position of leadership – if you lead in anyway – you will be criticized.  Criticism and Leadership go together.  The President of the United States leads – he does so in many ways.  I would venture to say that…

  • Some Things Can’t Be Taught

    in the classroom.  There are just things about life that just cannot be taught out of a book – in a classroom.  There are many things that just can’t be learned in a classroom either. In fact, learning in the classroom only challenges a few of the intelligences.  There are…

  • You Don’t Interact with I

    I was doing some editing on my dissertation, and I “relearned” something.  I had simply forgotten it.  It’s wierd to learn from your own writing, but I had to take a break to share this with you. When you interact with someone, you interact with their me – not their…

  • The Role of Luck

    I watched this special on CNBC where Warren Buffet and Bill Gates taught some MBA students at Columbia Business School.  If you can catch it on CNBC or on the net somewhere, catch it.  It’s a great show.  They really had a great time with the students and it was…

  • Ordering Off the Menu

    I was on my way to a coffee shop this morning, and I thought about my order.  I was planning ahead.  It hit me that I don’t typically just order off the menu.  I tend to order off the off menu – you know – the hidden menu.  I can’t…

  • Take the Emotion Out of It

    Have you ever heard anyone say this – that somehow we should just “take the emotion out of it”?  Have you said it? I had the opportunity to fill in for some classes this week.  The students were working on their Philosophy of Education.  They were working on developing this…

  • Technology and Psychology

    Technology can mess us up psychologically. Did you know that there really wasn’t ADHD before TV.  TV was available around the 1920’s and 30’s.  The first time they used stimulants to treat ADHD was 1937.  Don’t get me wrong, I will watch tv, and I am well aware that it…

  • Schola

    The word school comes from the Latin word schola and the Greek word schole. In the Greek – it this idea of “to have” or “to hold,” so literally, it’s time held for yourself.  It’s leisure time – intentional time for life insight, time spent for learning about yourself. The…

  • Dasha

    It is a Hebrew word – meaning “bring forth.”  Other definitions include: to sprout, shoot, grow green. I listened to a talk about it.  It’s this idea that all of creation – everything created – has within it the ability to create and “bring forth.”  Apple trees have the ability…