Habits are powerful influencers in our lives. I once heard the phrase: “We first create our habits; then our habits create us.” To the extent that this is true, it’s important that we become more consciously aware of forming habits. In his book The Power of Habit,...
As Wellness Wednesday focuses on developing Top 20 habits, the one that gets highlighted at this time of the year is gratitude. Tomorrow, as a nation, we will celebrate Thanksgiving. As Americans, we certainly have a great deal for which to be thankful. However, I...
In last week’s Wellness Wednesday, we identified how we Think, Learn, or Communicate as either being: Top 20: being effective in attaining results that are in our best interest Bottom 80: being ineffective in attaining results that are in our best interest The primary...
A participant at a recent training asked me to explain and give an example of what we mean when we use the phrases ‘Top 20’ and ‘Bottom 80’. We originally took this language from the Pareto Principle, named after economist Vilfredo Pareto. The Pareto Principle claims...
