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Stumbling Across Good Works
Today on my walk, I caught two middle-aged men in the act of picking up trash by a pond’s edge. In their “hello” to me, they grumbled about more trash building up from yesterday. They said “we pulled out two large garbage bags with trash yesterday. ” I asked, “are you being paid to clean ...
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Follow the right ANTS
Destroy those automatic negative thoughts (ANTS) for good brain health, suggests Daniel Amen, a prominent psychiatrist who specializes in ADHD. ANTS have the power to keep good from happening. They can enslave you. How many times have you had the urge to do something good, offer an idea toward improvement only to cringe back by ...
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Don’t Trash, Converse to Learn
In my previous entry, I shared my son’s pile of “treasure” which some might perceive as trash. Using that metaphor as a segue, I offer some communication gems that can help us draw out treasure from an exchange. In the Society for Organizational Learning’s journal “Reflections“, Raymond D. Jorgensen shares “five guidelines for learning conversations.” ...
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Trash or Treasure
My son collects “treasure.” He tucks away pieces of pencil graphite that he picks up off the floor of his classroom. These small 1/8″ pieces gather on his desk. I am not sure what he will do with them. But he values them. He also gathers plastic tops of various colors. Aluminum wrappers, colored in ...