Many years ago, when my two boys were still teenagers, I got so caught up in writing books and striving for success fame, that I lost my bearings. I began to act as though my time was more important than my wife’s or my children’s. I had become obsessed with traveling and giving workshops and doing whatever I could do to insure that my book about how to be a good man, “Awakening from the Deep Sleep,” would hit the …
The Coach’s Clipboard: Ask when enough is enough From BALANCED LEADERSHIP IN UNBALANCED TIMES, page 104. Dr. Robert Pasick’s useful toolbox of leadership strategies for men and women who want to improve their performance at work and in the community. Some people compulsively compare themselves to others; they never think about what is enough in terms of their own satisfaction. They figure they need to strive for more, more, more – instead of recognizing that they already may have more than …
Authors Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton used research by the Gallup Organization to craft the bestseller “How Full Is Your Bucket?” Their basic theory is that we start out every day with a bucket that is emptied or filled by what others say and do to us. We each also have a dipper. We can use it to fill other people’s buckets by delivering positive messages or we can dip from others’ buckets by delivering negative messages. When we fill …