Communication – Personal Development – Business

Yesterday was our annual home owners meeting at our cabin in the White Mountains of Arizona. Betsy, our President is just excellent and ran a smooth meeting. When we finished, we had a delightful potluck at the home of one of our neighbors, who had guests visiting from out of state.

The setting is rural and everyone who has chosen to live here, either part or full time, participates in the outdoors in some fashion. Fishing, birding and hiking are certainly our past times!

Tags: communicate, dealing with difficult people, idiots, Toxic by Marsha
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One of my goals is to simplify my life to to stay in control of the little things – like how I choose to handle my email and snail mail. One step I took was to sign up for Life Lock – and yes they have been under siege in the media. I really don’t care because they have helped me eliminate a ton of junk mail in my snail mail box. Not only do they protect and secure my personal information but they have helped me simplify!!

Tags: email, identity theft, junk email, spam by Marsha
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The last two weeks have been awful because my Apple computer, while I was on the road traveling, decided to become Toxic. It was a Microsoft Office problem – not a Apple hardware problem. I had NO Entourage email address book, had to use the mail service through my web site (pain in the butt) and other “difficult behavior” that only technology can create. My productivity was in the tubes!

The good news was I did have my iPhone – which is something everyone should have.

Tags: ability, email, stay calm, technology by Marsha
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Our grandson, Wesley McFall Young aka Wes graduated this weekend from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville with honors. When I think about a teenager making the decision to further their life, Wes becomes the poster child for self-awareness, focus, and discipline to maximize success. So here are some thoughts…

1. Self-awareness – What have you decided to “major in” – in other words, have you looked at your strengths and maximized them? Too many people focus on their weaknesses and become “victims of circumstance.” I believe people fall in this trap because it is easier than taking personal responsibility for their actions.

Tags: awareness, focus, self awareness by Marsha
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Why don’t some people just keep quiet and shut up? And I don’t mean just the difficult or toxic people. Maybe the personal development for workers should include how to sit quietly and just do their job. I was asked to give three reasons why people are motivated to communicate so here they are:

1. They want to hear their idea transferred to another person because they think it is different than anything anyone has said before. My thinking: I try to position my comments as “considerations.” Someone else has probably already thought of what ever I want to say anyway.

Tags: ability, difficult people, listening by Marsha
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