Friday Chicken #197: so close so close

In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of ritual and self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. This was a wild ride of a week. A lot of it was pretty sweet, I seem to remember,...

Hello, May. 2012.

It’s definitely, definitely May, and I am ready to say hello to May in its May-ness. Hi, there. Hi, there. And I decided I want to use that set of four questions from the book about Crucial Conversations that I’ve been working with. So. Let’s try...

A set of four questions.

Over the past several weeks, I have been asking the same four questions. This set of four questions has been my anchor. For pretty much everything. I ask these four questions when I enter things. Before conversations. Before meetings, meals, decisions. Another way of...
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