Leap Year Lesson #204: It’s Nice When You Can Do Well in a Crunch, But It’s Better When You Don’t Have To

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I had a perfect opportunity today to focus on one important thing that has a deadline of today.  With no meetings at all on my calendar, I could focus on getting together a draft of a presentation that I was asked to draft by today.  No problem, I thought.  There is nothing else on my …

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Leap Year Lesson #203: Help Others Learn From Your Mistakes

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We are eager to share our successes.  We feel good about them - even a little healthy pride, perhaps.  We want others to know what we've done well.  We like being lifted up as a model of best practices.  The accolades make us feel good and the lessons teach others something about how to succeed. …

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Leap Year Lesson #201: We Are Created for Relationship With Others

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Later this afternoon my wife will return from a 7-day mission trip to Vancouver, Washington.  Many things have been run-of-the-mill normal while she has been gone.  I've gone to work, taken care of the dog, eaten my usual minimal amount of food at home in the evenings, and didn't really change my routine much. A …

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