The Hamster Wheel – What a Waste
Are you wasting mental and emotional energy on maintaining the status quo, instead of focusing your efforts on getting to where you want to be in 5 or 10 years time? Is being on the hamster wheel sucking the life…
Forget Time Management, Do These 3 Steps Instead!
As a consultant/coach, the biggest issue I deal with when helping an organization or individual is a limiting set of beliefs, not the lack of time management. Not that goals can not be reached, not that success can not be…
Critical Thinking Tools: RELEVANCE
What is the relevance? Now that we are thinking clearly, precisely, and accurately, we must ask ourselves, “Is this relevant?” A funny illustration of this point is found in the movie, “Kindergarten Cop”. Arnold is teaching the class and says…
Critical Thinking Tools: ACCURACY
Once we have mental clarity, and have become precise, we must drill down further to ACCURACY. Yesterday, I ended with a quip about how imprecision could lead to overdraft fees on the old bank account. The next step is…
Critical Thinking Tools: PRECISION
Once we begin to use clarity in our thinking and communication, we should pull out the tool called PRECISION. I’ve been guilty of not using this tool, all of the time. In that very statement, “I’ve been guilty of not…
Critical Thinking Tools: CLARITY
The very first tool I use in my thinking is clarity. Most of us have a difficult time with communicating clearly, but that is a symptom of not thinking clearly. I used to watch the sitcom “Seinfeld” all the time. …
Critical Thinking 101
Let’s look at some basics of critical thinking. When you hear the term, “critical thinking”, it doesn’t mean that we are judging someone or being negative. Critical thinking means that we use reflective reasoning about our beliefs, attitudes, and actions. …
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