Category: Career Success
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Daily Deliberation: 17 June 2020
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” These are the words of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor whose private journal is regarded as one of the greatest works of wisdom to this day. He was teaching us that sometimes the things blocking our paths represent challenges for us to…
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Daily Deliberation: 15 June 2020
I remember playing in the woods a lot as a kid. Sometimes we would find a path that was cleared taking us from one area to the next. Clearly, someone had come before me and did the work to take us where they thought we should go. Occasionally, we just accepted this and left the…
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Daily Deliberation: 14 June 2020
Integrity First. It has never been harder to be the person we were raised to be. All of the social pressures and flip-flopping politicians make it easier to align with public opinion and blend in with the crowd. Although, this is not new; it is broadcast on a larger stage when we do not align.…
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Daily Deliberation: 13 June 2020
Why do we let others opinions or feedback anger us so much? We scroll through Facebook and see a post from someone or something going on in the news and get angry. We even find it is still on our minds later as we go about our day. Why do we give this person or…
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Daily Deliberation: 11 June 2020
This is something that should be taught at every tech school and PME. Instead of being taught to be perfect, we need to teach there is a good chance we will make mistakes when we are trying to do something new. When we are performing our jobs and the team is counting on, there is…
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Daily Deliberation: 9 June 2020
I have seen many people over the years who could not accept there were things outside of their control. Sometimes we fall into the “shut up and color” zone while in the military. I know this has happened to me many of times and I was driven to make rank so I could right the…
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Daily Deliberation: 8 June 2020
“This one time at band camp…” We all want to revel on our past achievements or even wallow in our short comings. Many people over the years have sought mentoring from me about something that happened years ago. I was told about how a flight chief (2 flight chiefs ago) had passed this person by…
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Daily Deliberation: 31 May 2020
When we are starting out, we are not afraid to fail. We even have the “I’m just an Airman” mentality that gives us a pass for making simple mistakes. However, we get to the point where we are good at our jobs and others recognize our talents. We become the go-to technicians and have a…
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