Difficult people are everywhere. They’re the ones who cut you off in traffic or buy up all the paper products in the store during the pandemic so no one else can have any. Or they’re the ones at home or on the job who zero in on your weaknesses, giving you too many critical looks or stinging comments. These difficult …
It’s always time to do the right thing
Almost exactly 20 years ago, I published my very first Tuesday Tip and strangely enough, the article was entitled “Integrity Matters. Character Counts.” I thought it was an appropriate message for an election about to take place. Here we are now, just finishing another presidential election and that Tuesday Tip seems more relevant than ever. After all, we’ve all witnessed a rampant lack of …
You win every time when you take personal responsibility
No matter who wins the Presidential election today, about half the country will be happy and relieved while the other half will be unhappy and scared. There seems to be almost no middle ground. The reason is simple. The happy ones expect that the winner of the election will fix all the issues confronting us today. After all, it’s his …
Listening: It really is the difference between life and death
We’re in the midst of an election. We’re hearing an awful lot of questions being asked and we’re seeing about an equal number of questions being dodged. We hear a lot of talk but don’t see much listening. And to me, that’s sad, as well as frightening, because listening is literally the difference between life and death in a country …