Practice This

This is test drive #3 announced in Practicing Colin Powell’s Rules.
What was in my practicing pipeline are:

Collin’s “The day employees stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Leo’s “Give a full-body massage“.

Recently my good friend just used the same phrase with regards to employees and their problems, he said ”they just won’t bring you their problems anymore, so you sink slowly”.
I am …

This is test drive #2 announced in Practicing Colin Powell’s Rules.
I was practicing

Jason’s “Know your values, be consistent”
Leo’s Cook a romantic dinner.

Here is my interpretation of values. Actually, very same Jason helped me to figure out my core coarse grained values after reading his Priorities for Tough Decisions. He has good punch line in the end (good place for the punch line I guess):
What’s more important:

Career or family?
Emotional comfort or thrilling risks?
Material success or physical well being?
Connection with others or time alone?

As for me, it is not black or …

This is my first test drive post I announced in  Practicing Colin Powell’s Rules.
I was about to check the following rules:

Colin’s “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”  one of  Colin’s Powell’s rules to make things done
Leo’s “Write a poem.” – as one of the 50 ways to be romantic on the cheap.

I started with “Pissing people off”. I decided to get some responsibility for creating some interactive and insightful conversation within my team of peers. I admit that we are buried with daily routine and do not have a chance …

I like Jason’s productivity and effectiveness posts – I am subscribed to his feed. He offer simple and practical stuff – just what I like.
After reading his How to Get Things Done – Colin Powell Version I decided to test drive Colin’s and Jason’s rules. I will be dedicating blog post for each rule and posting result it gained. To make it more fun I also will test drive 50 Ways to Be Romantic on the Cheap
Coming up next:

Colin’s “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
Leo’s “Write a poem.”

“If no one is …

There is no use in concentrating on something negative that happened. It’s happened. It’s gone. It is in the past. I observe too many people concentrating on “how bad it was” thing and depressing themselves and those that surround. Reminds me smoking – same effect. 
It is natural reaction to blame the whole world or yourself for failures. I used to do it too. It ate up my energy and motivation. It drained me.
I decided to change my practice and think of my failures as of dry facts. I look at this with …