I am…PhoneBoy

Competition is something everyone has been exposed to at one time oranother because just about everyone has played some kind of sport.Sports is all about competition, and it has some benefits. It motivatesyou to succeed, you get an emotional rush when you “win,” you improveyour skills. Business is also about competition–with othercompanies. Unfortunately, competition seems…

One thing I’ve been doing since I took the 7 Habits class is, after thekids have gone to bed and I have fed the cats and generally cleaned upthe house is that I take my day planner, sit down on the couch, and, inaddition to planning the next day (or week), I write down whatever…

Today I was thinking about my mission as I defined it within the pastmonth. In a sense it articulates what I have been doing for a while nowand articulates what I value most. One thing I haven’t done is comparethose values to the ones my employer has. What I find interesting isthat while I couldn’t…

The idea behind putting first things first is to prioritize “important” things first instead of “urgent” things. What’s important? What’s urgent? What’s the difference? Things that are important are activities that represent your values, mission, and high-priority goals. Things that are urgent require immediate attention. Given that description, it sounds counter-intuitive. We should be focusing…

You wouldn’t drive a car without knowing where you’re going, right? Before you get in the car to go somewhere, you have an idea of where you’re going. You might have the place pictured in your mind. You might imagine the route you are going to take to avoid traffic or construction. You might might…

Yes, even my two year old plays video games, or attempts to at least. 🙂

One of the things that resulted from my taking The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People course is that I have committed to share these principles with someone else as I work through them on my own. I seem to work better with written words than oral words, and I figure a few people out…

My daughter is definitely still has some time “on the mend” to go. While she woke up a lot better than she has been, and ate quite a bit, she’s still not 100%. She slept quite a while on me in the late morning. Things are still hurting, but at least the food appears to…

My wife brought my daughter back from the hospital this evening after a bag of IV fluids was given to her along with some medicine to calm her stomach. While she’s got a ways to go–her energy levels aren’t anywhere near where they normally are, she ate and kept it down! She was also singing,…

It seems like just about every time I go on a business trip, something goes sideways. This one was no exception, though this time it ended up getting worse after I got home. 🙁 On Thursday night, ironically my daughter’s second birthday, my daughter started throwing up. While she throws up from time to time,…