by Dwayne Phillips Five minutes of quiet thought. Each morning, at the end of Internet viewing and blogging and before I “go to work,” I sit for five quiet minutes and drink coffee. I stare into space. I am not wasting time. It is an investment, one of the sharpening-the-saw moments from a self-help best-selling […]
Entries Tagged as 'Clarity'
The Most Important Five Minutes of My Day
December 3rd, 2015 · No Comments
Tags: Breathe · Clarity · Meetings · Process
The Aspirin Illusion
September 10th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I’m caught in the aspirin illusion yet again. When will I learn? The suppression of pain instead of the eradication of the disease for which the pain is a warning. Gerald M. Weinberg Here is my story… I had headaches in the mornings. I took Excedrin extra strength, migraine, etc. which is […]
Tags: Adapting · Clarity · Health
Too Many Words
February 9th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Yet another reason for brevity: the more the words, the more the mistakes. There must be some statistic somewhere that shows the number of mistakes per 1,000 words that writers make (is it a mistake to end a sentence with the word “make?” Did I put my punctuation marks in the right […]
Tags: Brevity · Clarity · Communication · Writing
We Get One Chance
February 5th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We each get one chance to share an idea with others. I cannot overemphasize the need to be ready for that chance. I have been working with a colleague for several years now. This colleague has an idea he wants to present to others. He has been talking about the one idea […]
Tags: Clarity · Communication · People