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Daily Deliberation: 5 September 2020
We have all seen this one play out on a deployment. You are in the sandbox in a remote area of a developing country with little infrastructure. Mortar rounds are coming over the fence and you have been eating MREs for 60-days straight. Yet, somehow, you and your team make the best of it and…
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Daily Deliberation: 4 September 2020
A lot of times we ask the wrong questions as we are seeking feedback from peers and superiors. Ask “How can we work better together?” instead of “What am I doing wrong?” It is very hard to point out the negatives to others. Have you ever had that counseling session where you had to tell…
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Daily Deliberation: 3 September 2020
So there I was, I was finally running my first Aircraft Maintenance Unit (AMU). I had been an assistant in multiple AMUs prior, but this one was mine. Problem was, at the morning meetings, folks weren’t providing me the same information that had been provided at prior AMUs I had been in. After about a…
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Daily Deliberation: 2 September 2020
Yes! This is very timely for me. I was just scrolling through some posts on my news feed and was getting angry at some of the things people were posting. Why? Many of them weren’t posting them to be hurtful to me specifically. Even if they were, who cares? We have to stop giving people…
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Daily Deliberation: 1 September 2020
I’ve stated in previous posts that prior to the military I used to stock shelves in a grocery store…and loved it! I don’t do it often, but every once in awhile I’ll accompany my wife on her bi-weekly shopping trip and monitor the employee’s stocking techniques and then usually give a Simon Cowell type critique…it’s…
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Daily Deliberation: 31 August 2020
I have learned we can be the smartest person in the room and have all of the right answers and still not make a difference. Until people realize we have their best interests in mind, they will never listen to what we are saying. If you want to make a difference, stop worrying about proving…
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Daily Deliberation: 30 August 2020
Way too often we look at our situations at work or in life and expect everything to change to suit our needs. I have even “stood my ground” on certain situations where I thought my workcenter should alter their policies to fit my needs. “I do all of this stuff, it is the least you…
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Daily Deliberation: 29 August 2020
We have all had some sort of victory in our lives or careers. Many of us will let this success go to our head’s. This is normal. It is not a good thing, but it is normal. We work hard to achieve or to accomplish something and then it happens. We did it…we are number…
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Daily Deliberation: 28 August 2020
It doesn’t matter where you have been or where you are going. When you get there, you are still you. Learn from your past and improve yourself to be the person you want to become. Look to the future and work to be that person you know you can be. Then look in the mirror…
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Daily Deliberation: 27 August 2020
I always found it kind of amusing that when I introduced myself to someone and they found out I was in the Air Force, either through conversation or because I was wearing my uniform, it was inevitable they would say “do you know Sergeant Jones or Capt Smith”? I’m sure this doesn’t just happen in…
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