Every morning I set my “opportunity clock”, as Zig Ziglar refers to it as, to go and workout. And believe me, I’m not the most wide awake and well put together person at 4am. But it’s often that I sometimes feel motivation is portrayed by the “big speech at work” or the “motivational talk before the big game” or even the “cliche meme” that is supposed to get me out of my chair and seize Read more…
Shift from “I” to “we”. “From being the best in the world to the best for the world.” Barrett, R. (2011). Evolutionary coaching. Interbeing, 5(1), 57.
It’s easier to give in to being negative, telling ourselves something is too hard to do. It’s easier to follow what everyone else is doing, afraid to not fit in or miss something and be out of the loop. It’s easier to hide what you really want to say to get more “likes” on social media. It’s easier to post your thoughts that bias what you want others to see about you. But none of Read more…
It’s appalling and insulting to read on professional sites, stereotypes about Millennials being lazy and not goal oriented. It feels like a personal attack on me. I only wonder what would happen if the authors of these articles actually spoke with a millennial. My email is always readily posted.
It’s in the statistics. Students at the University of Mauritius in a 2012 study, want to develop their inner potential, but there are two things that seem to stand out where they do not perceive themselves able to: 1) The environment pressuring to “pass exams” and not develop them as a person 2) They don’t have the courage to try to develop themselves, because of the criticism they see when others try. The problem isn’t about Read more…
Today’s webinar on effective management reviews at GMHT, basically presented the importance of, “Say what you do, do what you say”. (A common paraphrase from the ISO 9000 and ISO 9001 standard for the automotive industry)
It’s hard to believe that my first ever “formal” psychology course for grad school is finishing up this week. Being a part time student and “working” 40 hours a week as a process engineer, along with “playing” in other aspects of my life, has been a quick awakening as to how to properly manage my time. Because typically in the past I was a full time student. Things I’ve taken away from transitioning to becoming Read more…
I often get crazy looks when I show my enthusiasm to run 26.2 miles or when I decide to go back to graduate school in a field where I’ve never taken an actual course in. But what I’ve realized through my book The Impression of a Good Life: Philosophical Engineering, it’s about clarifying what I work towards in life that has broken down my conditioned thought that work was work and play was play. And Read more…
During my meditation tonight, a reoccurring thought of what others expect of me kept dancing in my mind. That is, what is going to happen to Tony? Is he going to “make it” somewhere? Or is he just looking like an idiot by trying to be different? And really the competition of thoughts turned from what others might think of my song and dance in life, to me continually striving towards finding my vibrations of Read more…