Life Nuggets

For sure I’m not alone in this: I often push myself to achieve things I believe in. I have many goals (some are big ones) that I believe are worth the effort and worth walking the fine line. I’m sure you do, too, or else you would not be reading these Brilliance Nuggets. Yet, sometimes […]

These days there are so many amazing software like Apps and SaaS tools. We can use them to make our businesses easier and our lives richer and more fulfilled. Finding the Right Balance: Get It, Keep It, Ditch It? I’ve been thinking about what the right balance is here. How to get the right balance?There

A dear friend of mine recently shared a cool nugget with me. I want to pass it on to you on how to get good where you need more success. 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.

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 improving their behavior.

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

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 help me grow and have fostered my growth even though they were

When I was 17, I got into rock climbing. I joined our local chapter of the German Alpine Club ( “Deutscher Alpen Verein”). Soon after I became a leader for our Youth group, i.e., children 8-12 years old. The Club offered youth leadership exercises and training in the South of Germany near the Allgau mountains.