These days there are so many amazing software tools. We can use them to make our businesses easier and our lives richer and more fulfilled. Some of these tools are “free” – although we pay for them via viewing advertsing. Or the company offering the app is collecting your information and benefitting from it. There …
A dear friend of mine recently shared a cool nugget with me. I want to pass it on to you. because it strikes me as very helpful! The nugget is this: Just about anyone is good in some area and far less good in another. If you want more success in an area you are …
Perhaps you have heard of the Pareto rule which states that 80% of results stem from 20% of efforts. Or, 80% of revenues come from 20% of your customers. And so on. I knew this. I have seen this principle at work firsthand when I analyzed the results of various companies with which I was …
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This situation happens a lot of times. We hold someone who upset or disappointed us in the past in the same bad light – for years! In doing so, we inadvertently help “freeze” the very behavior that upset us. In other words, our stagnant view of them can stop that person from changing their behavior. …
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Sometimes we need to calm ourselves down. I call that taking a “chill pill.” Chill pills come in many forms (I’m not talking about actual pills). I challenged myself to come up with 50 ideas. Of course, there are many more. Here are the 50 ideas for chill pills I thought of today (in alphabetical …
Happy Thanksgiving to you! It is the day when we Americans focus on expressing our gratitude for our many blessings. Hopefully, we do this more than once per year! Thank YOU!!! I want to express, once again, my gratitude to YOU! You have been with me for 77 Brilliance Nuggets by now. Today is number …
Human beings create meanings from what happens. We do that constantly! We are meaning creation machines! There are three steps for creating what I call a “big fat story”: Something happens. A video camera could record it. What you see and hear on the video is what happened. We come up with meanings. We interpret …
Do you look back on your life from time to time to see where you have been and how far you have come? I am sure you do. I do, too. I got to thinking about how some of the people around me have fostered my growth even though they were not “official mentors.” I’m …
While I’m on my journey of writing a Brilliance Nugget every single day for a whole year, I need to tell you about Buckminster Fuller. He was an inspiring person on so many levels. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. He called himself a …
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