Many times we...

Compare our "worst" to everyone's "best".

We just want to see how we stack up against the competition, nothing
wrong with that.

But in doing so, we sometimes set ourselves up for failure, if we don't
think
about all the things we are good at.

We can't be good at everything and there are many people that are
smarter, stronger, faster, and healthier, but it doesn't mean that we
don't have just as many good things about us, as all the rest.

So when we size ourselves up to others, we just need to stay mindful of
the qualities we possess, in order to keep things in perspective.

Yours in "Remembering what we're good at" - Coach

Funny thing happened yesterday.

A good friend Rex, let me know how much he liked the blogs, and he said
that yesterdays blog "seemed as much about great advice for the
audience as it does for a message to myself, (and what is going through
my thought processes now)". And Steve has also mentioned this in the past.

Then a great employee here, Mike, came in and said "Man, you wrote
todays blog just for me, I have some decisions to make and the blog
really hit home. It seems like 70% to 80% of the blogs seems to be
directed straight at me".

2 different perspectives, from one blog?

As we have talked about before, it's all about perspective.

And who's to say who they are written for, as long as they hit home for all of us, when the timing is right.

Yours in "Perspective" - Coach

When we can't seem to...

Get our heads around things, it may be
because it's our head...is what gets in the way.

We think too much...which only gives us our own perspective, which is purely subjective.

Looking at our challenges from an outside perspective, or another's
viewpoint, always helps us out with clarity...looking from the "outside" and the solution is "Duh"...so simple

So if we are having a challenge, getting our heads around our
challenge...look at it from another's view...from the outside...it's so easy.

Yours in "Perspective" - Coach

The government stated our...

Recession.started in December 2007.

Economics: a period of an economic contraction, sometimes limited in scope or duration as compared to a depression.

Wikipedia:

"Recessions or Crises since the Great Depression":

There were 6.

3 lasted 2 years - and 3 lasted 1 year...so in doing the math,
looks like they last an average of 1 1/2 years.

And the average time in between recessions or crises: 12 years

Things happen, over and over in history, no big surprise - until it
happens.

Yours in "Perspective" - Coach

Some of us run away from...

Success and some of us Run away from Failure.

In either case, we are running away from something which puts us in the
position of reacting, and not in control.

Why not Run towards something...then we are responding and it allows us
to be the one in control.

Yours in Perspective - Coach