Posts Tagged ‘choice’

The Nature of Commitment

In a comment on my recent post about breaking up, someone asked if I'd write a follow-up about staying together. I've actually written about successful relationships before, based less on my own experience than on the work of relationship psychologists, so I'll just refer you there if you're looking for relationship advice. But thinking about what goes into a committed relationship got… Continue reading

October 14 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: choice, commitment, mission, personal growth, purpose | 12 comments»

Changing Your Personal Reality – Part 2

Time to Make Waves In part one of this post we discussed the tendency some of us have to allow situations, circumstances, events and even other people to control our lives; in essence, giving away our power in an attempt to be accepted, valued, appreciated and loved. By trying to “fit in and not make waves” (as someone shared with me recently) it seems that some of us have lost… Continue reading

August 5 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: change, choice, luck, personal-power, self | 42 comments»

Changing Your Personal Reality – Part 1

My Head Hurts… While the subject of “Personal Reality” might seem somewhat esoteric, philosophical and even confusing to some, it’s something that’s not only relevant to every one of us, but also something that impacts on virtually every area of our existence and human experience in a tangible and practical manner. All the time. Just as we each have different DNA, so too do we each inhabit our own “personal” reality… Continue reading

July 27 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: change, choice, luck, reality, self | 47 comments»

Choices and Consequences

Consider this: In three weeks time, you have a big presentation to a long-hoped-for new client. Three weeks is plenty of time, though, so each day you sit down at your computer and, instead of working on your presentation, play game after game of Desktop Tower Defense. Three weeks and a day later, you’re clearing out your desk after being let go for failing to get that… Continue reading

May 27 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, choice, decision, life, responsibility, wisdom | 12 comments»

How to Make the Right Choice

Which job should you take? What car should you buy? Should you ask him to marry you? Are you ready for another baby? Is this house right for you, or should you keep looking before you make an offer? Life is full of hard choices, and the bigger they are and the more options we have, the harder they get. As it happens, our brains are fairly binary. They can react very… Continue reading

July 9 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, choice, decision, decision-making, mind, strategy | 15 comments»

You are what you choose

Always making fully conscious choices is the key to a positive lifeLiving your life consciously isn’t a once-and-for-all action. It’s a way of being that will make everything you do more vibrant, more alive, and more fun.

Destiny is made of choices. Most of what will happen to you depends on the choices you make and their consequences in the future. Careful, conscious choices produce positive outcomes; hurried, poor choices… Continue reading

August 13 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: choice, decision-making, mistake, option | 8 comments»

Selfish Mentoring

One of my favorite themes in the MWA coaching curriculum is something we refer to as the ‘selfish mentoring of ‘imi ola.’ ‘Imi ola is the Hawaiian value of personal vision; it literally translates to ‘seek life’ and as a business value, we use it to coach managers on how to seek their best possible lives in business. Don’t get stuck on the normally negative connotation of the word; selfishness in… Continue reading

February 15 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: business, choice, coaching, decision-making, mentoring, planning, Productivity, trust | 4 comments»

Yes, No, or Maybe…?

"Always remember that you are at least 50% smarter than computers. Computers know 'yes' and 'no,' but we know 'maybe.'" - John Pironti

When it comes to where you direct your energy, it involves just three simple answers - yes, no, or maybe. Think about it. Every decision you make - voluntary or otherwise, involves a "yes," a "no," or a "maybe." Okay, common sense, right?

But are you considering… Continue reading

February 1 2007 | By Tony | Tagged: choice, consciously, decisions, prioritization, Productivity | 6 comments»

All Business is Personal

There are no objective, impersonal "laws" of business. Even all those numbers and ratios won't change that. At bottom, business and organizations are deeply personal and horribly messy. Until we accept that, we won't get far in improving how they work. It's fashionable to see business as an impersonal activity: as a world governed by objective numbers, financial ratios, and so-called "business fundamentals." It's not like that. Not at all. At the heart… Continue reading

December 11 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: business, choice, collaboration, Communication, Hamburger-Management, leadership | 5 comments»

Making Quick Choices to Manage Time Better

One aspect of life that eats into the time that we may have scheduled for other tasks is the process of decision making. Some of these decisions are small and trivial and have minimal effect on our lives and some of them are big decisions that have a bigger role to play in the larger perspective of life. Whether small or big, each of these decisions takes time and… Continue reading

October 18 2006 | By Vishal | Tagged: choice, decision-making, timemanagement | 8 comments»

An Environment for Learning

Let’s say you decide to go back to college. This time, you are going to do it on your own terms. Not because you have to, but because you want to. You are older and wiser now, and you have the ability to look back, taking advantage of the fact that hindsight is 20-20. However, we’re not going back in time; you are making this decision as one for today. You have… Continue reading

August 31 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: attitude, choice, environments, hindsight, learning, motivation | 8 comments»