Disprove Criticism by Agreeing!
From someone who used to teach people skills in a community college:
It's okay to change your behavior. When you're being criticized, you can get over being defensive by agreeing with the criticism. If you try to deny the criticism, then you're proving it.
Unleash Your Creativity
Per Scientific American, all it takes is: walking through criticism, facing fears & taking risks. Assess yourself : http://mycreativityskills.com
Turn an old smartphone into a secure monitoring-system (eyes) : viyo.io
Drink before you are thirsty (on a schedule if you're old - coz your sense of thirst is no longer reliable. Dehydrated? Watch out for stroke!) but wait till you are hungry to eat.
Email at work
Composing a charged email? Put only yourself on the To line and no one else on Cc or Bcc. After you're all done, you can decide not to send it. But, if you start off clicking on Reply or Reply-All or Forward, you might press Send prematurely and regret it later. Trust me. I have 😊
Watch Shermer's Con Games to find out why the only winning move is to not play! (Street scams)
If someone does not want to stop talking, drop something. He will pause when you go to pick it up. Take advantage of this opportunity to talk, while picking up what you have dropped.
What can you use a measuring cup for (not the biggest one obviously😊) - retrieve an avocado seed that went into the kitchen sink drain. Remember the ad where a guy wants to relax with a beer after installing new kitchen lights and the beer cap gets into the drain. He's trying to retrieve it just as his wife returns and heads for the switch to admire the new lights. Oops :)
Larry Bossidy : A Core Executive Skill is Getting Things Done Through Others
Leaders who can't work through others often end up putting in untold hours, and pushing everyone else to do the same. They're like Charlie, whom I mentioned in Chapter 3. I'm always asking such people, "What did you get done, and is everybody else in the game?" In performance reviews, I've had to tell some very smart 80-hour-a-week people that they need to change their work habits, and that the eighty-hour week is actually a major weakness. People like this usually force their direct reports to be in the office or the plant with them on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. They run them ragged and drain the energy of everyone around them. I'll tell them, "You have to come in here less, but your performance can't change - it must be just as good as it is now. Learn how to get things done through others. Because, if you can't get things done through others, ultimately you're going to sink or burn out." If they promote others on the basis of very long hours worked - which they will, because that is what impresses them - those people will have the same problem.
Click to give - costs you nothing buy a few seconds to feed the hungry.
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