Thinking: Your Most Important Work

Thinking looks like doing nothing, but no. Thinking is beautiful. I’ve always admired people who come up with great ideas and love the term “Think Tank”. I envision a group of super brains sitting around a round table, maybe one that’s polished and inlaid with a...

Thinking: The Most Important Work You Do

This old quote from Warren Buffett has me thinking lately, and I mean double-duty thinking! “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and...

A Brand New Year: Another Chance to Get it Right

“You guys think too much!” It’s what my daughter-in-law proclaimed on Christmas morning. We’d finished a big breakfast and stayed at the table, as we always do, discussing whatever it was. Good conversations have always happened a lot in our family. She hopped up,...

Get Brilliant! Doing nothing gets your brain ready.

I am sooooooooooooo tired of rushing around. Of going from one activity to the next as if I’m being graded for the number of things I accomplish in a day. The constant motion doesn’t leave time to even think. I often feel overwhelmed but better after my senses get a...