Why is it that we hear a car alarm going off these days and barely think twice about it? We barely hear it. In contrast, 15 years ago we would have stopped everything we were doing to see what was going on. Why do I bring this up? The distraction of the car alarm mirrors the noise that takes place all around us in 2014. Why do I say there is noise everywhere? Think about a restaurant as an example. You go to a restaurant and music is playing, televisions are on, info is scrolling across the TV screens, people…
It seems that there is no such things as a normal work day anymore.Most people--seem to do work every day (weekends etc.) and at all hours of the day. No wonder so many of us are... running ragged, swamped, buried, slammed, drowning... well you get the idea!The fact is we are all connected to our job and the world 24-7. My hypothesis for our rapidly changing and moving world is that there really is no such thing as just having "work hours" (i.e. 8-5 MON-FRI) anymore.We are connected-- all the time-- with starts and stops in our work! I call this...…
Young children have the habit of asking “Why?” Often, as parents, it is easy to become annoyed with the nonstop stream of questions. “Daddy, why is the sky blue?” “Why do I have to go to bed now?” Why? Why? Why? If you’re a parent you know what I mean. Why did we ever stop? The simple question of “why?” teaches us, as parents, to better communicate with our children and teaches us, as adults, to not settle for a simple answer. Asking “why” made us functioning members of society, yet we gave up the habit. Why? It made us…