doug smith training

You haven't solved a problem if you've broken yourself in the process. Take care of the problem AND yourself. You'll be needed to solve more problems. -- doug smith

How strong is your desire? That's how strong your goal can be. Make your goal that strong... -- doug smith

What was the last lesson that you learned that you wish you didn't need to learn? Learn isn't always fun. But, if we take the time to reflect on what we have learned, it CAN always be useful. Like that time as a child when I put my wrist on a hot stove. I had a scar for years, but I never did THAT again. Or that time when I yelled at an employee in front of customers. It felt necessary at the time, but I soon realized that it was not productive and that it impacted the other team members and I've never done THAT again. We need to learn. And the more we stretch ourselves, the more likely we are to learn things we hadn't planned on, some of them uncomfortable. Learn anyway. Grow. Learn constantly, even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts. -- doug smith

Excluding someone you disagree with makes your world smaller. -- doug smith

Problems don't break you - failure to solve them does. -- doug smith

How big is your problem? How much space are you willing to allow it to occupy? How much do you, and your problem, need to breathe before you can even define the boundaries. Give it some space. Give the problem some space. But not so much that it takes over. You are still in control. Exercise you're control. -- doug smith

Have you ever worked on a goal that you didn't even really care about? Sometimes they are assigned to us by our bosses. Sometimes we just seem to drift into trying to meet someone else's expectations. But, goals that we don't truly embrace don't really give us what we want, do they? They're just as much work -- in many cases even more work -- without the happiness payoff. Silly, isn't it? Let's do this instead: let's work on goals that we like. Let's work on goals that we truly care about and embrace. You don't have to agree with a goal to achieve it, but how will that make you happy? -- doug smith