Positive Thinking
A couple of weeks back I wrote about perspective, I think the topic of positive thinking goes hand in hand. They are both about how we see, think, and react to things and events. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale Here is a quick story… Allan applied for a new […]
Happiness & Fear
I’ve thought a lot about our goals (professional and personal)—we all want to achieve all our goals and ultimately be happy and successful. We agree the key steps to achieving our goals lie within teamwork, working smarter not harder, a no fear attitude, and pushing ourselves for more. “Happiness—defined as a state of heightened positive […]
Perspective
Over the last few days I have been thinking about perspective a lot. I thought I would write about it to gain some. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” —Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden As the quote above illustrates, you can choose how to […]
Keep Moving
“A meowing cat catches no mice.” —Yiddish Proverb We have spent lots of time talking about goals and dreams and creating vision boards. All good things, but without action they mean very little. Talking about doing something doesn’t make it happen. We need to move from intent to action. So kudos to Chelsea for scheduling […]
A Tale of Four People
There was an important job to be done and everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was everybody’s job. Everybody thought that anybody could do it but nobody realized that everybody wouldn’t do […]
Growth & Change
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin We are at the tipping point of change for J2. We simply cannot continue to do things the same way. In order to succeed we must get more efficient, think differently, do […]