Mountain Minutes

I become more productive when I was able to answer the question, “what is your phone to me?” I was spending around 4-5 hours a day, and recently after discovering it was increasing the cognitive load of how many decisions I needed to make in a day, I reduced the hours to 1.5 per day. I became more productive and am able to find flow easier! #mountainminutes #personaldevelopment #flow #optimalperformance #workandplay #peakperformance #coaching #leadership #psychology Read more…

https://thermalprocessing.com/quality-of-leadership-matters-at-all-employee-levels/ Leadership isn’t always about the top management directing the way for the company. Leadership can be found at all levels of the company in terms of organizational structure. And even though AS9100 requirements for quality management systems indicate “top management,” it is also the “lower” part of the organization that is equally accountable and even influential. From the president to the shop floor worker and everyone in between, it is the collective of the Read more…

https://thermalprocessing.com/heat-treating-from-the-operators-perspective/ Often, a customer visit involves a walk through the facility. Comments are made about how clean it is or how well organized a process is put together, but probably the most important compliment is the heat-treat operator’s ability to express the knowledge of the process. To hear — in between the technical jargon — the support needed and given by the rest of the team at the facility displaying the confidence in the actions Read more…

https://thermalprocessing.com/say-what-you-do-do-what-you-say/ In the special process world of the aerospace industry, companies with requirements of aerospace manufacturing must rely on the accreditation of AS9100 and the Nadcap requirements to process parts for airplanes. SAE, the body that developed the AS9100 requirements for aviation, space, and defense organizations, encompasses more the measurement of the quality management system, whereas the PRI body that manages the Nadcap requirements for special processes is more technical in the details of the Read more…

https://thermalprocessing.com/ams2750-pyrometry-revisions-tweak-a-crucial-process/ AMS2750 pyrometry is a daunting heat-treat special process requirement in the aerospace industry. It’s a literal definition implying measurement of temperature, but it also defines a measurement system of extreme detail and consistency for a given heat-treat process. It is a specification that brings clarity to a process of bringing control to heat-treat, but also one that creates a headache if the parameters are not fully understood — not only from the technical requirements, Read more…

Reflections on hiking an actual mountain growing up in New Hampshire… before the ascent on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. “It was always this sort of disordered commotion, and all of a sudden we were off on the trail, pacing forward, left foot and then right foot ahead of us.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvxcxsj_m3A&feature=youtu.be

Life is a mountain… but what do you climb? You might not believe what is actually “needed” to climb and work towards… https://youtu.be/pH0XuDqXC9w  

Get this… get that… it wasn’t about getting more that my mentor taught me in college. It was about shifting the things I worked towards that had a different sort of value. Values rooted in health, family, confidence, personal growth, passion, intuition, and compassion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCc-PZlmPxo&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR19hPCW40t1zhFJf3dArbwVelXv3jTjxi-59qdcwwNadHYz6oAZaCekVwo  

It isn’t about what you have… but who do you have to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny1hmpxbteI

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