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Power of Will & Spontaneous Creativity...aren't they the wonderful, bi-polar highlights of our human condition!
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Power of Will - a much-praised attribute and process of character ( willpower ). Creativity & Spontaneity - humour, music, art…
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Fear is powerful. It is able to close our eyes and ears...and, sometimes, even our mouths.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet It is interesting to observe, of all our faculties, our mouths are often the last to give in.
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Small stuff is like a sponge. If you sweat over it long enough it becomes so big & heavy it drags you under.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When fear of failure prevails, it causes people to sweat the small stuff. Fear of Failure...one of the 6 Fears identified by…
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Our habits take us either toward or away from our goals.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Your choices, whether intentional or not, become your habits. Pervasive habits are like governors ...some good and some bad…
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Perfectionist: someone who takes great pains…and gives them to others.
The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet Perfectionists have trouble finishing. That becomes a problem when others rely on them. Leo Tolstoy "If you look for…
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The thicker the explanation the less absorbent the message.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If that explanation you're hearing just don't make no sense and the explanations that follow make even less sense... methinks…
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Keep your chin up...especially when things are a pain in the neck.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Of course, take this much more figuratively than literally.
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It's easy to make a significant change: just tell everyone you have developed an electricity intolerance.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Sure, change is tough. But you gotta look on the bright side: if you don't like that last suggestion - when the urge to change…
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People know what's going on in my head...my thoughts are important to them...time for my wake-up call.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If you think communication is easy and yours is very successful, you're dreaming.
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It's tough to enjoy the humour at your office when it all happens behind your back.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet The missed-joys of bad-boss oblivion, when ignorance creates behind-the-back bliss. What you don't know can be damned funny…
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Once upon a time there were no walls. People must have beat their heads against something else.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When you are beating your head against a wall the first thing to do is recognize, your head doesn't fare well when you pit it…
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Primate evolution! We enjoy the benefits of both opposing thumbs and blame-pointing fingers.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Our fingers naturally point outwards. Perhaps, that's why we point at others when it's time to place blame .
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Even if that cloud doesn't have a silver lining it still might bring a rainbow.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet While I have never explored the interior of clouds to discern whether or not they are actually silver...I have marveled at the…
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I developed a serious interest in other people ... in less than 6 decades.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet From a very early age, I noticed people making mistakes . I didn't just notice it. Their mistakes scraped in my ears, seared my…
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A Baker's Thought: It's easy to eat a cake, it's harder to make one, and it's even harder to create a cake recipe.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If you don't see any cakes, check first to see if your people have cake recipes. Another Baker's Thought: Most of the time when…
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Only tiny creatures perceive molehills as mountains.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Moles are small creatures and they make small hills. If you perceive a molehill to be a mountain then you must be much smaller…
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Note to Self: Today I will not jump to any obtusions.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Justification: really, I won't be giving up anything of value; nobody will miss my obtusions.
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If we just had some clone spray then we could all communicate better.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Expanding on the good work of Thought Tweet #718 ... When people don't 'get us' [or 'get it'] we could clone-spray them. Then…
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Better to climb mountains in your mind than on the back of your donkey-ego.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet May your molehills remain molehills and may your ego choose molehills over mountain climbing. Refuse to allow your ego to join…
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Communication Russian Roulette: shooting off your mouth, ignorant of what your brain has placed in the cylinder behind your muzzle.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet You meet people whose brain-to-mouth filters fail on a regular basis. And you see the damage happening in real time: damage to…
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Communication is like a paper-towel paradox: the thicker the explanation the less absorbent the message.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If it don't make sense and the explanations that follow make even less sense... methinks the person doth protest too much …
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Ancient communication wisdom: Catcheth thou and stoppeth thou before thou doth protest too much.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet There's a good reason why Shakespeare put that " doth protest too much " line in Hamlet. Many people are unable to express an…
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A thin skull allows important stuff to get in easier.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Mistakes bang into and bounce off thick skulls . This annoys Mistakes because their role is teaching lessons. The problem is…
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Recipe for Complication: mix up some simple things, set basic courtesy on the back burner, & watch people get heated up.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When we do simple things right we pave smoother paths. When we are courteous or at least civil with others we pave smoother…
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Trust your gut feel...after all, the fast food industry trusts your gut feel.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Sometimes your gut feel gets you into trouble...despite the warning signs from your tightening belt.
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Give yourself injections of that oxymoron, Constructive Criticism
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Create a Do It Yourself Hormesis Program , aimed at thickening your skin and building your tolerance for other people's…
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Loose lips sink ships…Loose cannons sink 'em too.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Loose Cannons Fire At Will...and they fire at pretty much everyone else within earshot and nearshot . Loose cannons get…
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When they are messing on the floor, sometimes you just gotta put down your newspaper.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet It actually happened just after the turn of the century...amidst double entendre & a wicked sense of humour .
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Maybe, curiosity kills cats; definitely, curiosity motivates people.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Perhaps, many animals are curious . Certainly, some are...cats have a reputation for it. Human beings must be the most curious…
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Talking Russian Roulette: shooting off your mouth, ignorant of what your brain has placed in the cylinder behind your muzzle.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet You meet people whose brain-to-mouth filters fail on a regular basis. And you see the damage happening in real time: damage to…