Category Archives: Personal Performance Improvement
Are you too busy?
By Timothy J. O’Brien, MS Are you too busy? If so, what do you plan to do about it? Nothing, is the most common answer I receive. Most people feel there is nothing they can do about it. It is just a part of a modern, technologically wired existence. … Continue reading
Make An Inventory Of What Matters To You
By Timothy J. O’Brien, MS As time passes, we humans tend to hoard everything. Hands up, if your garage no longer holds a car. Smile if you’ve ever added on a room to your home that now is simply more storage. Do you have every National Geographic you’ve ever received? … Continue reading
Be Happy By Resigning As Center of the Universe
By Timothy J. O’Brien, MS “I recently resigned as the person in charge of running the Universe. It was a self appointed position. And, I gladly accepted my resignation.” (Note to myself) Have you ever caught yourself fuming inside? Maddened by an internal dialogue about what another person should do … Continue reading
Set a Course for Life Long Learning
“I’m done learning!” When I heard this several years ago, I nearly gasped aloud. The person who said it was a successful salesman. He’d completed several of the most intricate land transactions I’d ever seen. I asked him what he meant by being done learning. “I know everything I need … Continue reading
The Four Stages of Learning
By Timothy J. O’Brien, MS “Come on Mom, I want to drive. I can do it.” With a slight turn of her head and a wry smile on her face, my mother said, “Okay, Tim, you can drive.” We pulled onto a lightly developed road in the back of our subdivision. … Continue reading