Building Better Habits
April 29, 2011 1 Comment
Most people, including me, usually get excited about a new initiative and are full of energy for some time. However, we often lose momentum and fall back, if not exactly where we started, far from where we wanted to go with only some incremental change. And then we look for the next initiative.
How do we keep the momentum going? How do we transform a new initiative into a habit that improves our business or life?
When I was a child I was told that if you do anything twenty-one times it becomes a habit. A simple trick! In business, an initiative like Six Sigma isn’t going to work unless it becomes a habit for all employees associated with the process. Once it becomes a habit, it’s followed in due course. That’s when the consequences of the initiative—the improvements we expect it to bring to the business or to life—will follow. Read more of this post
Easter Sunday has just come and gone; what a weekend it was!
Today is Earth Day, when we are supposed to spend some time appreciating the earth and it’s awareness, and spreading the word. How are you celebrating: switching off electric devices for some time, pledging to walk or use public transport more instead of driving, or cooking dinner from scratch instead of eating out or buying processed food? Forget Earth Day, what do you do every day out of concern for our environment? I’d love to know, because I have still a long way to go and it’s difficult to reconcile your concern for the environment with convenience.
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I used to be a proud self-professed perfectionist. I’d spend days over one campaign email: researching, testing, editing, trying to get it just right. Then I got this job. (Kidding.) (Umm, not really.)
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Last week, I received a call from a guy who wanted to know if I would be interested in buying two horses. While I live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh and we do have a few rural farms in the county, I’m sure my neighbors wouldn’t appreciate a couple horses running around our backyard! The seller told me he needed to sell his horses and was calling people in Pine Township to see if there was any interest. I told him I was not a prospect.
