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The Balance Beam: Want A Meaningful Life? Get a Balanced One!
You want a great life, and you want it now. A balanced life seems like a good idea for 'someday'. What if the former depends on the latter?
The Balance Beam: The Self-Delusion of Finding Fault
How much energy do you expend either placing or avoiding blame? What does that mean about you? What impact does that have on your ability to live an effective life? Not knowing could cause you a lot of grief.
The Balance Beam: Are Past Successes Ruining Your Future?
In some ways, success can be more difficult to manage than failure. It's easy to let past successes give you the wrong message about who you are and who you will become.
The Balance Beam: Don't Panic, But Panic?
It's a tough call to become 'right sized' in the face of personal and world-wide difficulties. Your discernment will help you keep it all in perspective.
The Balance Beam: Make Your Madness Work for You
People waste a lot of time and effort trying to become someone they were never meant to be. Getting in touch with your personality type is the first step toward accepting the special person you are.
Humanity, the Holocaust, and Global Warming
How we treat each other and how we treat our planet are connected. They depend on how influenced we are by authority and how aware we are of gradual changes in our environment.
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No matter how unthinkable, people will willingly pursue destructive policies (even self-destructive policies) so long as those policies are promoted by people in power.
The Balance Beam: Our Daily Bread and Whine
On this first day of Spring and Thursday of Holy Week, Les reflects on the meaning of time and remembrance and finding our way without losing our balance.
Ask Auntie: Who's Responsible for the Embezzlement?
- Today's entrepreneur has been betrayed by someone who's been trusted for a long time. Auntie insists that the root cause is a case of pure negligence. - hlesbrown on 2008-03-10
Ask Auntie: Mindfulness — Strategy and Awareness
- In the context of 'The Frazzled Entrepreneur', Auntie Cyclone often refers to 'mindfulness.' Today, a reader wonders how our 'mindfulness' differs from the Buddhist understanding of the term. - hlesbrown on 2008-03-05
Ask Auntie: 'Business' is the Business of Being in Business!
- Perhaps your dream is to take your special talent and turn it into a money-making business. Your favorite Auntie Cyclone gives you some great advice on what to do — and not to do. - hlesbrown on 2008-02-25
Ask Auntie: I Can or I Can't: What Does It Matter?
- Today's reader is wondering about how useful 'mindfulness' can be to a business owner who's up against the wall. Auntie explains how it can be helpful to encourage him or her to move forward. - hlesbrown on 2008-02-18
Ask Auntie: When Personalities Clash
- Clashes in style in the office or at home are inevitable. When they become a pattern, they can be destructive. Auntie uses 'mindfulness' to help an entrepreneur find peace at work and at home. - hlesbrown on 2008-02-11
Ask Auntie: Your Life, Your Universe, and Everything
- For some, concentrating on your strength seems to mean leaving important stuff undone. Auntie points out that we often have our priorities backward. - hlesbrown on 2008-02-04
Ask Auntie: Confronting a Fearful Arrogance
- An entrepreneur-reader wants everybody to get off his case. Auntie suggests (strongly) that the problem doesn't really lie with them. - hlesbrown on 2008-01-28
Ask Auntie: Chill Out, Dude!
- Today's reader is having issues at work that s/he is having trouble figuring out. Auntie suggests that the problem isn't a logical one. - hlesbrown on 2008-01-21
Ask Auntie: Working Harder and Enjoying It Less (Sleepy in Seattle)
- A reader is finding the contemporary business scene hard to deal with and asks Auntie's advice. She gives it to the writer — right between the eyes! - hlesbrown on 2008-01-14
Letters from Auntie Cyclone: Think, Or Get Off the Pot!
- Critical thinking is almost a lost art; yet, it's a 'core competency' for any entrepreneur or business leader of any sort. Auntie Cyclone has her own take on what critical thinking entails. - hlesbrown on 2008-01-08
Letters from Auntie Cyclone: Crush Those New Year's Revolutions!
- New year's resolutions just don't work, yet we keep doing them anyway. Auntie Cyclone has a much better idea! - hlesbrown on 2007-12-31
Letters from Auntie Cyclone: Where Are Your True Strengths?
- In our efforts to focus on our strengths, sometimes we don't quite know what to do with those unfortunate weaknesses that too often pop up along the way. Rather than put them away, perhaps it would be better to take a closer look. - hlesbrown on 2007-12-25
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