Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #093 — Open your umbrella.I recently came across a scathing slapback for which John Maynard Keynes is credited. In fact, so is Winston Churchill. Sadly we have no definitive proof of the origin of this stellar rejoinder: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do,…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #92 — The map is not the territory.A map is a diagrammatic representation of an area showing physical features … but it's just a representation. It's not the area itself. To get a true feel of an area or a system, one must be in it. But to change…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #091 — I have to get this damned book done!!Yes, I said "have to." I know that I preach about the ills of external motivations … have to, need to, ought to, must. I know! And I said it on purpose!I know that I want to get this book…
<< ** SOUND STARTS @ 5 minutes ** >>Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #090 — Got a pulse? Then you've got time!What did I want to be when I was a kid? Oh, I had firefighter and policeman and astronaut in the mix… each had their time. But nothing resonated as deeply as being…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #089 — Turn and face the strange changes… The members of the college class of 2023 are expected to have seven careers in their lifetime. That's careers. Not jobs. And I remember a year ago how obsessed those soon-to-be high school graduates were (read: "their parents were") about what…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #088 — One Musn't "Must"!Dr. Albert Ellis, the founder of rational emotive behavior therapy, taught us that the best years of our lives are when you decide that your problems are your own. In other words, when you own the idea that you are the only one in control…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #087 — The salmon got it right!It doesn't take any effort to go with the flow. And the cost of that effortlessness is that you end up going only where the water takes you."A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #086 — Deadlines are a bitch!I created the deadline. I created the schedule. That means I created the pressure. You see, I want to get my book out by Groundhog Day 2020. Maybe it's the symmetry. Or maybe it's the hope."We promise according to our hopes and perform according…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #085 — I can hear them!The second I raised my hand I swear I could hear what they were thinking. And it got louder as soon as I stood up and asked my question. I had asked something about scaling my outreach and then all I could hear was…
*** SOUND STARTS AT 13:45! ***Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #084 — Hear Ye, Hear Ye! We're poor: time poor, attention poor, and connection poor. Sadly, for most of us, that's the world we live in. Too many things to pay attention to (let alone to get done!) in too little time and there…
