My wife and I had an issue. One day she asked me “How come you won’t use the dish rag when you’re cleaning up?” I responded “Because the dish rag always feels icky (yes, I said icky) because you like just leaving it in the sink with all sorts of stuff being spilled and thrown […]

My wife does a lot of projects around the home. I don’t get to help her with almost any of them. Unfortunately, I’m not that handy with tools, and never have been. Give me a screwdriver and I’m a monster; give me anything else and there’s the possibility of disaster coming. Right now my wife […]

I was reading a blog post of a friend of mine’s named John Dilbeck as he was talking about the topic of learning curves and how they can hinder people in their quest to make money. I thought about it because something many of us have difficulty with at times is respecting just how long […]

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about an issue he’s having where he works. The main issue is that there’s a supervisor that’s basically harassing him and he doesn’t like it. The supervisor isn’t someone he reports to; that’s a major issue. When he reported it to his manager the guy […]

This morning I was at a meeting for consultants. We were talking about another organization, called the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). This is an organization I used to belong to, that I’m thinking about possibly rejoining at some point in the future, but just haven’t been enthused lately. The conversation got around […]