by Dwayne Phillips Some endeavors are so complicated that headaches are expected. Most endeavors, however, have headaches that are caused by the people involved and are unnecessary. Some endeavors are complicated. That is their nature. Concentration, lots of it, sometimes brings me a headache. I have worked in complicated endeavors and endured the natural and […]
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Unnecessary Headaches
March 25th, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: Alternatives · Choose · Competence · Health · Management · Problems · Stupid · Thinking
Things I Don’t Want to Know
April 24th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There are things I don’t want to know. Knowing those things means I have to do some work that I just don’t want to do. Life is full of headaches. There are more than enough headaches for each day. I don’t need any more headaches. Then some well-meaning person walks in the […]
Tags: Health · Learning · Management · Multitasking · Resources · Work
Sometimes I Don’t Take the Podium
February 6th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I like to speak in front of audiences. I like to take the podium and talk. Sometimes, however, I don’t take the podium. Sometimes, I need another person to stand in the way and say, “No, not today.” I recently attended a memorial service for someone who died. Close family members stood […]
Tags: Breathe · Clarity · Decide · Fatigue · Health · Honesty · Humility · Permission
Why Persons Don’t Become Vaccinated and How to Convince Them to be Vaccinated
August 19th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Many persons want many other persons to become vaccinated. Their methods, however, are achieving the opposite. “Become vaccinated,” is an oft-heard cry. (Actually, I read “get vaccinated” which brings cringes of pain to those of us who know the meaning of words.) And there are many who do not get the vaccine […]
Tags: Breathe · Communication · Conversation · Health · Listening · Patience · Please · Respect · Science · Virus
What I Hope We Learn from the Pandemic
June 10th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The prolonged year of the virus is slowly moving towards an end. It will never end, but I hope we have learned a few things that we can all do. The pandemic is declining. It is like a math function that tends to but never reaches zero. The limit as time approaches […]
Tags: Education · Health · Learning · Virus
No Parking, Fire Zone
August 9th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We each have threats that we value and threats that we ignore. I sit here in a coffee shop drinking plain old coffee while writing. In the year of the virus, persons walk in wearing their theatrical masks to show concern for a threat. They grab their coffee, walk out, and sit […]
Tags: Change · Coffee · Differences · Health · People
Drink Water, Don’t Have Headaches (like I did)
March 22nd, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Rarely do I give health advice. Please read this little bit of health advice—especially if you have headaches in the morning. Health advice for writers and others: I like this post about night routines that bring better sleep. For me, the big item in this post is hydration. For years I suffered […]
Tags: Health
Don’t Try Too Hard
October 30th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we simply try too hard when applying what we already know in small doses suffices. It happened again the other day at work… I needed to know something that I didn’t know. I rushed about frantically screaming to the moon, which is hard to do in the middle of a sunny […]
Tags: Adults · Breathe · Group · Health · Thinking
Hate Your Boss, Be Your Own Boss (or???)
May 4th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There are alternatives to replacing your hated boss with yourself. The title of this post came to my attention recently. It was part of one of those “Give me your money and I will make your life so much better” ads. If you hate your boss, you can quit your job, start […]
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 […]