by Jonathan | Jun 15, 2021 | Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Relationships
Humans have honed one skill over all others in the past 250,000 years since cohabitation became a life saving necessity. That skill? The ability to instantly sniff out other people’s BS. The instant we pick up on the faint signal that someone feels disingenuous...
by Jonathan | Nov 17, 2020 | Interpersonal Skills, Leadership
How gracious can you be? That email with just enough snark. The person who is 10 minutes late to your virtual meeting. The “correction” somebody offered you that makes no real difference. How many times can you smile and let it pass by? The problem with...
by Jonathan | Nov 16, 2020 | Interpersonal Skills, Leadership
Patience is allowing. I have been meditating on patience for a few moments each morning over the past two weeks. I have been running low on it. The insight was that patience is a bridge between reality and our expectations. We want things to be a certain way, and...
by Jonathan | Sep 29, 2020 | Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Skills, Relationships
A different way to keep score in your relationships: Every morning, reset all scores to 0-0.Do you keep score? Come on… Be honest. Who owes you something? It feels normal to keep score. Especially when we are “up” in any relationship. That special...
