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Just One Thing: Don’t Presume You Know

February 21, 2012 in Just One Thing with 0 Comments

We all experience it every day: People who should know better–or who don’t know us at all–presume they ‘understand’ us.

Do you make this mistake?

Just One Thing: Don’t Say ‘I Know’

February 13, 2012 in Just One Thing with 2 Comments

Silence can be compelling.

Two treacherous, ubiquitous words today: I know.

An experiment for the upcoming week: banish this phrase from your vocabulary.

Just One Thing: Ask Questions

February 6, 2012 in Just One Thing with Comments Off

Questions are the stock in trade of listening and learning.

They’re powerful. They’re easy to do. And they don’t cost a thing.

Just One Thing: Do One Thing You Fear

January 30, 2012 in Just One Thing with Comments Off

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill–among many others–assert the importance of grasping the nettle, doing things one fears.

As an experiment, for the next week, make it a point to do one thing you fear every day.

Just One Thing: Drop ‘I’ From Your Vocabulary

January 23, 2012 in Just One Thing with Comments Off

In the coming week, try to make one small change in your communications: remove the personal pronoun, ‘I’ (as well as its baby brothers and sisters, ‘me’ and ‘mine’).

As simple as it seems, this can be challenge. I Many have found this to be the case.

Just One Thing: Who Are You Serving?

January 17, 2012 in Just One Thing with Comments Off

Amid the bustle of the coming week, Who Are You Serving?

This question, of course, can be philosophical. It directs you to acknowledge, confront, make and assess the great questions of your life and work.

It can also be a very practical way of changing your life–and others’ lives–as you go about the business of life.

Just One Thing: Make One Small Change Now

January 10, 2012 in Just One Thing with 1 Comment

Amid the bustle of the second week of the New Year, how much have you improved so far?

Have you met your goals, your resolutions?

Or have you started to back-slide a bit, falling into habits and routines–perhaps with more remorse than results?

Just One Thing: What Will You Leave Behind With the Old Year?

December 26, 2011 in Just One Thing with Comments Off

Next week, you may well begin your New Year with a bevy of resolutions.

This week, why not take a necessary first step: leave behind a habit of thinking or action that is incompatible with your masterpiece of service going forward.

What might such a change be?