KCSpeaks

There are times in your life when you are tested. The test can be personal. The test can be professional. The end result of the difficulty is growth and development. As a person, you have become self-aware and achieved something that you may not have been sure was possible.   At the start of the New Year, we may structure challenges for ourselves in the form of resolutions, but sometimes just going about our day to day, challenges find us.     I was at a cocktail party recently. I was speaking with two women. One of the women had changed jobs.   The other woman asked her about her position and if she enjoyed the position. The woman stated that the job was a “challenge” for her.   I was coaching a colleague on some time management strategies to manage her case load. I made a suggestion about how she can block her calendar and schedule appointments in order to best utilize the work week. She said that she would try the strategy, but that she was not...

Welcome to January and another time to make some resolutions. I am tired of resolutions and trying to not only make resolutions, but trying to keep the resolutions. The whole idea of resolutions is negative to me and seems to imply that as humans we are just going about our day to day and not caring how well, bad, or indifferent we are to our growth and development.   Resolutions are a way for companies to make money off our insecurities in ourselves by selling us products and services that we believe help us achieve what we want. I did not make any resolutions this year. Instead, I am going to focus on achievement. Most people think of achievement as something big, but it can be as small as getting up each day.   An achievement can be as simple as eating a healthier snack, reading a business article, or cleaning up a pile of papers. If we start to think of achieving something each day, rather than pressuring ourselves to reach some huge unattainable goal, we will not o...