March 26, 2008
The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001
Maybe it’s skepticism borne through experience that causes many employees to doubt their employer ever acts out of consideration or kindness.
Maybe it’s a sign of a pervasive entrepreneurial spirit that clients will tend to see improvements in your service as just a way to earn more money. Or maybe Kent Keith is right. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 17, 2008
Pursuit of Happiness: Work & Play
Barbara Winter is famous for her book Making a Living Without a Job
. She loves to talk about the “Joyfully Jobless” life. It’s easy to hear words like that and be skeptical. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 17, 2008
Pursuit of Happiness: Money
How much is it costing you to stay in a job you hate but think you can’t leave? Read the rest of this entry »
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March 17, 2008
Elephant Burgers
You have a plan to change your life. At least you have the next couple of steps.
You look at what you’ve written down to move you forward. You know you want to get there. You remember being excited just thinking about taking these steps.
But now when you look at the steps on your To-Do List you keep putting them off. Some people say it’s resistance—maybe you’re anxious about changing, maybe the rut feels comfortable and keeps calling to you. But that doesn’t really fit.
What could be holding you back? Read the rest of this entry »
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February 29, 2008
Striving and Thriving
“What was that you were doing?” Jean Good asked her husband Scott. He was in the garage, actually trying to have some privacy. He was practicing his newfound sport Tae Kwon Do and didn’t really want her to see him. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 29, 2008
The Mentorship Approach With Kids & Teens
How do we get our kids to do what they’re supposed to do? Most of us grew up with basic chores, homework, and house rules. It all seems perfectly logical to us as adults. But our kids don’t seem to agree!
When simple directions don’t work, some parents command or even threaten. Others bargain, bribe, and plead. But not much happens. I was skeptical when I learned Faber and Mazlish’s techniques for engaging cooperation. But when I tried them they worked—like magic. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 29, 2008
The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001
Words like these sound wonderful in an inspirational speech or a sermon. I close my eyes and smile and think, “What a wonderful world.” Then reality walks in wearing flesh and bones and a rude attitude! Read the rest of this entry »
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February 29, 2008
Pursuit of Happiness: Work & Play
What better way to pursue happiness than by learning how to work at what you love?
What better way to combine work and play than by bringing the things you enjoy into your work life?
Even better, how about sending yourself on a retreat to have fun, enjoy time away, find your life mission, and be able to claim it as a deduction on your tax return! Read the rest of this entry »
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February 29, 2008
Pursuit of Happiness: Money
I listen to financial advice talk shows from time to time. Two of my favorites are Dave Ramsey on the radio and Suze Orman on television.
If you’ve heard both of them, you might have noticed their ideas are different in a lot of ways. They especially differ on how to approach paying off credit card debt. When I was thinking about helpful ideas for getting rid of debt, I tried to imagine a conversation between the two of them. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 29, 2008
Elephant Burgers
For me, scheduling my time is like budgeting my money. If I make a plan for it, I direct it and stay in charge. If I don’t have a plan, I spend some here and spend some there and turn around at the end of the day and wonder where it all went.
When you budget your money, you tell your money what you want it to do. When you budget your time, you tell your time… Wait! Not really. You don’t tell your time what you want it to do. You tell yourself what you want you to do with the time you have. Read the rest of this entry »
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