Fear of Death “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark Twain I remember being at my grandparent’s apartment and suddenly bursting into tears. It suddenly hit me how old they were and at some point, …
Unhappiness “For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be …
Firing Someone “It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t.” ― Dick Grote, Discipline Without Punishment: The Proven Strategy That Turns Problem Employees into Superior Performers As I teach in my Project Management Class, a manager should try his or her best to bring around a difficult employee. The same …
Growing Old “Just ’cause there’s snow on the roof doesn’t mean there’s not a fire inside.”― Bonnie Hunt Suddenly, you find that you cannot go to sleep at night. You are wide awake, staring at the ceiling or anything else that you can see in the dark. It has hit you that you are aging. Actually, …
Change “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” — Confucius Change. Is that what Keeps You Awake at Night? We’re often afraid of change because we’re afraid of the unknown. Even though we know that something needs to be changed, we cling to what is familiar. We would rather dance with the devil …
Fear of Failure “Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.” Jake Wood , Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a …
Shrinking Business? “Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got backup again.” Nelson Mandela It hasn’t happened all at once. In fact it has been gradually slipping over time. You can’t pinpoint when it started and it didn’t seem like a big deal at …
Fear of being fired I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of …
Allowing BS to Get to You BSers. We all know some. In fact, some of us may know many of them. We deal with them at work, socially, or we just bump into them through random contacts. They are usually loud and have definite opinions about everything. They are never wrong (At least according to …
Not getting recognition You put in lots of time. You work you butt off and accomplish more than any three people you work with. Yet, for all of your efforts you are not receiving any recognition. In fact, your annual performance reviews are average at best. You could have done a lot less and gotten …