Category: Career Success
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Daily Deliberation: 8 January 2020
I am the youngest of five siblings. I learned very early on that I do not have to make the mistakes to learn from them. I can easily learn from the mistakes my siblings made. However, I also realized we all seem to learn from failing more than we do from succeeding. I am not…
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Daily Deliberation: 6 January 2020
In the early days of Internet blogging and chat rooms, I wrote a lot of articles and held many debates on religion. This is when I learned you can’t change another person with a well thought out argument. You can even refute all their viewpoints; however, when it comes to most topics, our minds are…
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Daily Deliberation: 5 January 2020
There is a saying that conflict reveals character. This is also true of authority. Watching how someone acts when they are in a leadership role says a lot about their character. I have seen people who burned down every bridge to get more for their team, I have seen those who beat their team into…
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Daily Deliberation: 3 January 2020
This has been my method of learning something new for as long as I can remember. I wonder if I learned this from studying Bruce Lee or somewhere else, but it is a very effective model. When learning something new, look at what is working and what will work for you. Get rid of the…
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Daily Deliberation: 2 January 2020
I have told my children about the importance of learning since day one. There is nothing more important in life than to learn how to learn. You can’t better your relationships with others, help others, make dinner, or do anything without learning. We all are so eager to learn until we think we have it…
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Daily Deliberation: 30 December 2019
This world is constantly changing. Our small offices are constantly changing. Things that we rely on today were not even in existence a decade ago. We may become experts in some area of our lives, but we have to keep learning to remain an expert. I find that spending 15 minutes a day reading about…
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Daily Deliberation: 29 December 2019
I was never a credit hound, but I certainly was the guy who wanted to do it all on my own. I thought it was easier to not have to worry about other people and they often just slowed me down. This worked ok as a young Airman and early on as a NCO; however,…
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Daily Deliberation: 27 December 2019
I can’t even count how many times someone else has received credit for my work or for someone else’s. A lot of times they don’t even realize they are getting the credit for it. It is frustrating to see, but, most of the time, it doesn’t have any real long-term impact on me. When this…
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Daily Deliberation: 26 December 2019
This is one of the biggest challenges I have had as a SNCO. I have worked very hard over the years to gain the knowledge and experiences that I have to finally make it into the SNCO tier. I figured people would be in a line with interesting problems for me to solve. However, there…
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Daily Deliberation: 24 December 2019
We have all wanted to go back in time to when we were 5-, 10-, or 20- years younger. It would be awesome to go back knowing what we know today. We would be wealthier, in better shape, wiser and have better relationships today. Obviously, we can’t do that, but we can think about where…
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