Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness

Has someone been unkind to you today? Has someone tried to manipulate you today? Has someone lied to you today? Since you’re dealing with human beings, you’ve probably experienced some level of all of those behaviors...

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain was known much more for his warm, folksy humor than for writing scary stories, though one of his masterworks is A Ghost Story. He takes...

Over half of Americans don’t use all of their vacation time. Are you in that group? You earned your time off, you use some of it and at the end of the year, you give some of it back. Would you give back your salary? I...

My friend and colleague, Chad Hymas, is a very wise man. He said, “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”  Chad is a fabulous example of the importance of...

OK – stop. Listen to this with your whole self, because it’s important to your success in life. You can cause yourself to feel however you’ve decided to feel. Hear that again – you can cause yourself to feel however...

Be patient with yourself…you are still growing. Like a tomato plant from the garden center, you have your spine and what you think you will do with your life. And like a tomato plant, that can look different from one...

Albert Einstein said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Sure, it’s good to have a method,...

Plato said, “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” He didn’t say it exactly that way – translations differ so that’s an English-language distillation of a two-sentence section of his Apology speech. When...

Do you blame your parents for problems you have now? Maybe they didn’t love you the way you wanted and needed to be loved. Maybe they were absent more than you would have preferred. Maybe they were even mentally or...

Happiness isn’t possible 100% of the time. Yes, my company is the Center for Workplace Happiness and you heard that right – 100% happiness isn’t possible. That’s OK, though, because it doesn’t need to be. Contentment...

Has someone ever come to you with a problem, wanting you to help them solve it? And you talk it out with them, help them see their options and then they ask you what to do? And then don’t do it, so they stay stuck in...

Want to feel better about yourself? Look for what’s right in the people around you. Look for their conscientiousness, their competence and their kindness. Look for evidence of their heart shining through their work...