The imagery of a picture “speaks a thousand words” is common in our language. Video and pictures have captured both the hearts and minds of all of us on social media. It’s what we, more readily, pay attention to. They have overtaken the written word. Yet the pictures I refer to in the title, are the incomplete ones we discover as we learn new things. As we focus on different...
Bringing change in ourselves is just as hard as trying to find ways to organize our busy days. We talk of change, most times, with a romantic perspective. We say things like “I am going to lose 10lbs this year”, “I am going to learn more about x or y this month”, We make affirmations about the change we seek with certainty. Before we begin.. Some will say create deadlines...
You hear the word momentum often in sports. “They have the momentum” or “the momentum has shifted to the other team”. You don’t hear very much about momentum when it comes to our lives. The Merriam-Webster definition of momentum includes: “the strength or force that allows something to continue or to grow stronger or faster as time passes”. There is this...
At a meeting the other night, I was sharing with a small group some resources on the web to look at and why they might be helpful to what we are trying to do. One person in the group, loudly said, that we don’t need that when it came to a specific item that was suggested. My reaction to this, that I did not voice, was how could you say that without looking at the suggestion further? It...
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, talks about how you need 10,000 hours of practice to become really good at something. Think about it. To be good at something we have to spend 27.397 hours per day to “get there” in a year. No time off for holidays. Over three years, it would take 9.13 hours per day including holidays. Early on, I read all the time about how to improve this or...
We hear this term used when describing toddlers. When they wouldn’t share their toys with cousins. When they pushed a playmate because they took their toy. Rarely do you hear this term used when describing an adult. Do we feel that we can work at changing someone’s behavior for the better only at an early age? What do I mean by bad behavior? When our actions don’t match our...