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My release augments my discouragement with the attitude my stake has for singles. The older couple serving in place of our non-existing reps were organizing an occasional activity before their release. Now there's nothing. How can I believe my leaders really care about singles when I don't see any action on the singles front? Now enter my philosophical moment. Reflecting on much of what I share here on Joy in the Journey Radio, I've seen the need to take my own medicine. It's time to own my life, and the first step is acknowledging the truth: I don't have the results I want because of choices I made. In the end, what you think, what you give, and what you are determine what you get in life. What you thinkWe often highlight on this program the connection between how you think and the results you get. As my recent experience shows, it's one that is all too easy to forget. Having that idea infused into your nature isn't the factory default setting. That natural default is to blame the outside — blame people outside of yourself, blame outside circumstances, blame whatever lies outside your control. But by placing responsibility for your life outside yourself, you also place outside yourself the power to change that life. That's why you'll never have your best life if you don't own your life. Until you take responsibility for all the results you have in your life, you'll never wield the power you need to change your life into your best life. And you have that power within you, for the Lord has declared it (D&C 58:28). Once you own your life, you'll not only see that power you have within you more clearly but also wield it more effectively. Thinking in those terms always leads to better results in life, no matter your circumstances. What you giveOnce you start acting on more effective thinking, you'll see your life begin to change, starting with the way you feel inside. The more you act on more effective thinking, the more effective your actions become at producing the results you want to see in life and the more you find yourself giving. That shouldn't surprise any long time members of our audience. We've often discussed our definition of happiness — giving your all to all the right things for you. The key part of that definition is that first word: giving. So many chase after having whatever they think will make them happy, and all of them sooner or later face the truth of their unhappiness. Happiness is not about having. It's about giving. And true to the Law of Restoration, life always returns to you what you give to it. What you send out always comes back. So if you want to get more out of your life, give more to it. And the definition of happiness we've discussed so often here is the key to what you give — your all to all the right things for you. What you areWhen you consistently take more effective actions bolstered by more effective thinking long enough, it becomes a habit. That habit played out long enough becomes your character. You become what you consistently do. We all have the potential to be great, but whether or not you reach that potential depends entirely on the choices you make. You have the power within you to make those choices. It's called agency, and you begin to wield that power by owning your life. The first step is acknowledging you don't have the results you want because of choices you made in what you've thought, given, and been. What you think, what you give, and what you are determine what you get in life. You get to choose all three, and it's never too late to make a better choice. So don't wait. Make the better choice now! When you own your life and choose to be more effective in what you think, what you give, and what you are, you'll be on the road to your best life. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
That relaxed attitude was no match for the "Yeah, but"s that always intervene when we're stretching ourselves out of our comfort zone. "You should work on that dream" confronts "Yeah, but it's been a long day and I'm too tired" and you don't make any progress on your goals and dreams. "You should finish that task" meets "Yeah, but I've got bills to pay [or insert other work that appears to take priority]" and you don't make any progress on your goals and dreams. So if you want to move towards your goals and dreams, don't be a butthead! Leave your comfort zone So long as we stay within our comfort zones, we'll always have average lives of mediocrity. And that's the way our brain likes it. How do I know? Quite simply, it's designed into our biological hardwiring. Anciently, venturing too far outside your comfort zone could get you killed. Thus, the forces of evolutionary biology adjusted the design of our internal controls. Our biological hardwiring now provides a check point if we go too far beyond the borders of safety. "You don't really want to go this way" becomes the persuasion of the moment attended by a natural pull back within our comfort zone. It's all designed to keep us safe. But staying safe will never result in your best life because staying safe leads only to mediocrity. Now, I'm not saying we need to be a reckless version of Evel Knievel. What I am saying is playing it safe every time never got anyone anywhere. Your best life isn't found inside your comfort zone. If it were, you'd have your best life because it'd be easy to find and you wouldn't be dreaming of something better. Turn knowledge into actionNone of this is new to me; I've known all of it for years. So why then have I kept slipping? Why hasn't the knowledge of how my biological hardwiring works translated into forward-propelling action? It's comforting to know that even with all my slipping the ball's at the one-yard line, but even still. why isn't it in the in-zone? I simply haven't been vigilant watching for lapses. Our biological hardwiring has us operating mostly out of habit, so it's easy for eyes to drift away from watching out for potential slips. And those opportunities to slip sneak so silently upon us that not watching vigilantly essentially invites slips towards our goals and dreams to occur. Those slips often begin with "Yeah, but." Without vigilant watching, those "Yeah, but"s come and carry the moment. Each surrender to natural inclination is a vote to stay average. Over time, those votes can aggregate to deliver a life of mediocrity. In this way you can get close to scoring but never actually do. Adopt a new habit Can you ever get the "Yeah, but"s out of your head? No, they're a part of your biological hardwiring. But you can develop habits for confronting those "Yeah, but"s successfully. Begin by deciding your response in advance. Then write out that response: "When I get told 'Yeah, but' X in such-and-such situation, I will Y." Writing out your response burns it more into your brain so that, when your trigger event occurs, you're more likely to follow through with your pre-determined response. Once you play that out enough times, you'll have a new habit that propels you forward to your goals and dreams. So don't be a butthead. Don't just let the waves of life carry you wherever the winds happens to blow. Own your life. Take control. Reject any surrender to "Yeah, but" by setting yourself up to adopt the habits you need to succeed. You'll find yourself slipping a lot less and scoring wins a lot more on the road to your best life. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
Thinking back on my experiences with LDS singles over the years (in addition to being one myself), I've selected some questions that appear over and over again yet yield poor results. Also, for each one I've better questions that lead to better answers that yield better results. At the end of the day, we all want results, but tackling your challenges often begins with asking the right questions. Change your thinkingLet's start with what's probably the leader of the pack. Many of us are just trying to do the right thing while we find our way in this world, and yet many of us just keep getting beat down. Over and over again, when things don't work out, we ask, "Why me?" I was like that in my 20s. "I don't understand," I'd say to myself. "I'm trying to do what's right. Why is dating so hard? Why can't they see what a good person I am? Why does this have to happen to me?" With questions like those guiding my thinking, I didn't get desired results. And my struggles intensified because I kept doing what I'd been doing. I kept asking the same questions, which led to the same answers, which brought the same results. Things kept getting worse until I reached a turning point: I realized I was responsible for my life and whatever it was. Most turn away from such thoughts, but I embraced it. And as a result, I started asking different questions. Instead of asking "Why me?" I started to ask "What do I do now?" Question your questionsI can't begin to tell you how fundamental that flip in thinking was. Instead of playing the victim, I started playing the victor. Instead of feeling all was hopeless and lost, I began feeling hopeful that everything could change in my favor. The blessings I wanted could come to me. That's another question I started asking. Many singles wonder when their blessings will come to them, especially as the years being single begin to accumulate. But instead of asking "When will my blessings come?" it's far more productive to ask "What can I do to near myself towards my blessings?" So many want their struggles to end, but they want the solution to come on demand without doing any real work to get it. The true joy in life unfolds when you use your agency to quit wallowing in the wanting and start wading in the working. That's one major difference between less and more effective questions. Less effective questions assume you don't need to change you, and therefore you don't need to act. But results come only from action, so taking no or poor action means getting no or poor results. More effective questions, conversely, assume you must change you, and thus their answers encourage you to exercise the power of your agency and act. Better action always produces better results. Claim your powerThat's why asking poor questions never delivers rich rewards. I'm sure many if not most of us have asked, "Why does it have to be so hard?" But how many of us have stopped to examine the assumptions behind that question? Those who do are more likely to encounter the better question: "How can I get better?" It's one thing to wish things were better. Everyone does that. It's another to wish you were better, and most don't do that. They focus on what's outside of themselves, and in so doing they disempower themselves because the power they seek to change their life is already inside of them and by looking outside themselves they focus away from the very power they seek. When you continually focus on what you can do to grow into something that isn't challenged by what currently challenges you now, you can achieve amazing results. You'll always get better answers by asking better questions. So when you find yourself asking questions about the state of your life, step outside yourself and ask if you're asking the right questions. Only by asking the right questions will you find the right answers, and that will bring you more joy in your journey.
Yet when I applied this common cure, I found it didn't really cure anything. All it did was make me forget myself for a time. When my service was done, I still lacked a companion, and the associated feelings with that lack returned all the more poignantly. Eventually, I learned why I felt the way I did and why service isn't the difference. The apparent problemService is bandied about as the bandage for lonely souls, and sure, I've felt better for a while as I forgot my problems for a time. But after serving I was always returned to my reality. The "problem" of being single and lonely was still there. So if it doesn't really work, why is service dispensed so often to singles as the answer for their challenges? I've learned most people don't want to get too involved because that means taking on their burdens and most have enough of their own to bear. It's easier to give some glib advice so they feel like they're helping without getting too involved. But there's a complication: The advice is partially true. It's not like service doesn't have any effect. My problems did seem to go away while I served, even if it was only temporarily. That benefit evidences some effect from service. What dissatisfied me was the incompleteness of that influence. When the service was done, I was always left with myself and my life and the feelings associated with lacking a companion. My underlying condition was unchanged. The real difference Eventually something did change for me, resulting in a realization of what makes the real difference. What changed? It was my thinking, of course! I began to see a new perspective on my situation. Service didn't solve my problem because my problem wasn't a lack of service. My problem was a lack of giving my all to what I did. As we've discussed countless times on the broadcast, happiness is giving your all to all the right things for you. Service is right for everyone, but I wasn't happy from my service because I wasn't giving my all to it. Thus, service became little more than a distraction from my real life, a way to fill time and momentarily escape my challenges. Changing the way I thought about service made all the difference. By giving my all to what I did while serving, I found a sense of fulfillment previously unknown. And that fulfillment yielded satisfaction long after the service moment had ended. The loneliness of being single had been replaced with a sense of connection to something much larger than myself. And it was all because I gave my all to what I did. The true answer In the end, fulfillment comes from what you give of yourself while you do it. The Savior extolled the example of the widow who cast her last two mites into the treasury because, unlike the rich who gave some smaller portion of their greater wealth, she had given her all. And it was giving her all that made the difference. Likewise, LDS singles can make a difference in their lives when they give their all to what they do. Service isn't the difference, but what we give of ourselves while we serve is. So instead of advising others to combat loneliness with service, we should advise them to give their all in contributions to others. That's something we at Joy in the Journey Radio call a personal ministry. Ultimately, giving our all can bring us closer to the Savior Who gave His all for all of us. The meaning of His sacrifice comes not from His life but His willingly giving that life. When we give our all to what is right for us, we follow in those footsteps. Service isn't the difference, but giving your all to what you do is. So don't hold back. Give your all to all that is right for you. Not only will you find greater happiness, but you'll fortify yourself against the challenges of life. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
Yes, I know how incredible that may sound to some, especially if your life hasn't gone the way you expected. You've probably also had some painful experiences involving either someone else deciding against you in a single instance or many others using their agency across multiple instances. Maybe you've experienced both. But even if you've had the whole world against you, I still say seek and expect miracles. Believe in miraclesWe typically think of miracles as events that defy the laws of nature. For me, miracles are manifestations of one or more universal laws we don't understand fully. This shift in perspective is essential to why I say we should seek and expect miracles. The perspectives we take and the assumptions we embrace are everything; they're key components of our thinking, which produces our actions, which in turn produces our results. In the end, we all want results, so when we don't get desired results, we need to examine our thinking. President Nelson begins his comments on miracles with this declaration:
First, he illustrates his concept with the words of a single adult! And this wasn't just any single. No, Moroni had everything ripped from him. He witnessed the destruction of his people in a horrible war, leaving him to wander alone for the safety of his own life. Yet he still declared fervent belief in miracles. All lives have painful disappointments, but most don't compare to Moroni's. If in his circumstances he could find the strength to believe in miracles, could we not muster the courage to do the same? President Nelson continued,
It's not just Moroni but every book of scripture declaring belief in miracles — all the more reason to question our perspectives and assumptions leading us to disbelieve in miracles. While we question, we should remember the Prophet's caveat: Miracles can take time and may not unfold how we expect. So often LDS singles seeking a miracle expect something so inconsistent with universal law they take the absence of their miracle as evidence against miracles. Do the work
That last phrase caught my attention. How many LDS singles have approached their desire for a miracle "doubting nothing"? Most of us have doubts, some so much so they're consumed by them. And yet "doubting nothing" is part of the price of faith we must pay for admission to the miracle show. That means we've got work to do. It's no surprise then to see President Nelson's next words:
How often have we advocated taking ownership of your life, or doing what's in your power, or partnering with the Lord? Results come from only one thing — action. To score points, you must quit sitting on the sidelines and get on the field. So often the miracle we want is perfection delivered to our doorstep. In reality, we need to partner with the Lord, accept His guidance, and do the work that will create our miracle. Trust His promises
So many LDS singles wanting a miracle are faint. They're weary. They're beat down by the vicissitudes of life that point their gaze towards their weaknesses and imperfections, leaving them to wonder how their miracle could ever happen. But none of that matters when you partner with the Lord, for He "giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength." With Him, we can do anything, even move the mountain seemingly standing before us. So yes, even if you've had the whole world against you, I still say seek and expect miracles. Believe they can happen for you. Partner with the Lord and do the work you must do to have your miracle. You can then live with confidence that in time your miracle will happen. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
Something's missing here. It's this truth: Results come only from action. If you don't have the results you want, you're not taking the right action. So instead of rationalizing your way out of doing what you need to do, learn what action you should take, and then take it. Your time is now. Give your all aright Life won't always go as desired. When it doesn't, don't just say, "Well, it must not be the Lord's timing." Concluding so prematurely will keep you from the real solutions you need. Too many LDS singles use the concept of the Lord's timing as a crutch to excuse themselves from further involvement in their own eternal progression. We all want to believe we can get what we want without making any changes in ourselves, that we just need to keep the standards and then the Lord will just deliver our desired companion when the time is right. It's an enticing yet deceptive argument. The universe doesn't work that way. To reap the harvest, you must sow the seed for that harvest. To get a different harvest, you must sow different seed. And you choose what seed to sow. You can make you more attractive to your hoped for eternal companion. Giving your all to the right things always produces the right results. Seek to do more Ultimately, happiness is not about doing the right things but rather giving your all to the right things. Without question the standards are some of those right things. So is holding to the iron rod. And so is eliminating habits that encourage potential companions to decide against you. So is changing the way you think so your approach to life broadcasts an attractive rather than repulsive energy. So is conquering your fears holding you back from achieving your potential. So is partnering with the Lord so you can know what steps you need to take today to turn your life around and capture all the joy He wants you to have right now. Rushing to conclude the Lord's timing isn't right just because you're still single blinds you from seeing all you can do that's right for you. You'll never get right results without right action. No matter how much you've done, there's always more you can do. Results come from action and only from action. Stop using the Lord's timing as a crutch to justify inaction. You don't get results from anything but action. Someone must act for you to get results. That someone is you, and your time is now. Partner with the Lord That undoubtedly irritates some of you, especially if you've sincerely given your all to secure your companion. And I'm not discounting the Lord's timetable for each of our lives. He knows not only what's right but when it's right. That's why you need to partner with Him. When you do, you'll know what you should do with the time you have now. For most LDS singles, now is the time to take action to move towards eternal blessings. It's not just about keeping the standards. It's changing the way you think so you embrace a new way of being that makes you more attractive. That's the real secret. Marriage is best pursued indirectly, not directly. When you choose to make the right changes in you, you drastically increase the likelihood someone you want will want you. Partnering with the Lord will help you know what changes are best for you to make today that will attract a brighter tomorrow. The Lord does have a right time for each of us to receive eternal blessings. But unless you've got revelation your time isn't now, you're choosing to be single when you use the concept of the Lord's timing to justify your own inaction. For most LDS singles, your time is now. So get busy giving your all to all the right things for you. When you do, you'll move yourself closer to the blessings you desire. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
Yet in other respects, I feel like I'm worse, especially when compared with what I'd expect to be at this point in my life. As I think about why I'm where I am, I realize I'm no different than anyone else. We do what we want. Exploring changeTony Robbins once said, "Change is never a matter of ability. It's always a matter of motivation." If you really want to make a change in life, you simply make the change. It's never a matter of ability because, if you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to do it. So despite the volume of our protestations, we all do have the life we really want. My life is where it is because that's where I want it to be. I see a change I think I want in my life, and I think I want it because it appears to give me something desirable. But in reality I have the life I truly desire most, because results come only from actions, and I chose the actions that have given me the results I have. Still, I keep returning to the question of making changes in my life because what I have truly desired does not completely satisfy. Why then do I not make the changes that will give me that different life? I have ability to change but not sufficient motivation. I'm just too comfortable where I am now. Diving deeperI think many of us live in this same rut. We don't really do what we need to do to achieve positive change because we're far too comfortable with out present life. Pursuing positive change opens the door to problems and challenges involving pain and confusion. I think all of us have enough of those not to want any more. At the same time, there's no reward without risk. You can't really feel the deep joy of love without opening your heart to betrayal and loss. You can't lose weight without exposing yourself to pain and discomfort a new diet might bring or to the exhaustion and injury that exercise can inflict. You can't experience the good results from being out in the world without exposing yourself to the bad things that happen to people every single day. Many of us sense these risks and pull away. We want safe, sure, guaranteed. So we stay in our comfort zones, yearning to get out but never wanting to do what will get us out. We're just not motivated enough. We're doing what we want. Embracing change So how then do you get motivated enough to change? I think we'll all have our own answer, but I do see one common thread that could tie all those individual answers together. You get to a point where you won't tolerate not having the change any longer. You just get sick and tired of being sick and tired. You make a decision — a real decision, one in which you cut yourself off from every possible outcome except the one you pre-determine. You put your all into producing the actions that will produce that pre-determined result. And to keep yourself motivated, you surround yourself with like-minded go-getters who'll support you in going after your best life. Not everyone will do that, but either way, we do what we want. We have the results we have because of the action we've taken, and we take that action because that's what we really want to do. If you really want to do something different that'll produce different results in your life, then you'll do that. Hitting rock bottom could be the greatest blessing ever, because there you can more easily find your motivation to do something different. As you then decide not to tolerate anything less than your absolute best, you'll get yourself on the path to your absolute best life. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
How many of us are doing that? How many of us are taking the action needed to improve our lives? Again, only action produces results. And it doesn't matter how undesired your reality is today. You can flip any reality into something better when you flip your focus. More than just seeing Some may find that a bold claim. If you're engulfed in your own negative experience, you'll rightly wonder how simply looking at something different can change anything. But we're talking here about focusing, not just looking. Just because you look at something doesn't mean you're focused on it. When you drive a car, for example, you'll look ahead for the most part because that's the direction you're going. But occasionally, you look in your mirrors to get a sense of what's around you. That's part of safe driving. But how safe would you be looking mostly in your rear view mirror? You'd find driving your vehicle safely difficult if you did that. That's the difference between focusing and seeing. Everyone has undesired experiences in life. Simply looking at them won't create a negative reality. Only when you constantly choose to keep your vision fixed on the negative are you focused on the negative. And a focus on the negative means a reality filled with negativity. How it actually works Changing a negative reality is as simple as choosing a positive focus. If a negative reality results from a negative focus, then a positive reality will result from a positive focus. But how exactly does that work? Many think reality is the collection of what happens to you, but this perspective drives a focus on what others do or don't do, and the resulting reality is one in which you're disempowered to change your own life for the better. What happens to you does play a role in shaping reality, but you play a much larger role with the meaning you assign. You'll get a certain result depending on your actions. And, yes, other people play a role in determining that result. But whatever the result, you choose what that result means. And that meaning plays a larger role in creating your reality than what others do. The same undesired experience can come to two different people, and you can find one in complete turmoil and the other in complete peace. The same thing happened to both, so why don't both have the same reality? It's because reality is more than just what you experience; it's also what meaning you choose to give your experience. And the way you assign meaning is through your focus. You choose your focus, and thereby you choose the meaning you assign to your experiences, and thereby you choose your reality. Stand and own it When you understand how it all works, the ramifications can overwhelm. If you choose your reality, then the one ultimately responsible if you don't like your reality is you! That realization usually precedes one of two responses: You'll either cower back and hide, or you'll stand up and embrace it. Cowering can be comfortable, but that choice disempowers you, surrendering you to a victim mentality that keeps you in the prison of always blaming others for why your life isn't what it should be. But your best life has you empowered with a victor mentality that liberates you. And that's where the harder choice to stand up and embrace the truth comes in. To have your best life, you must stand and own it. If you don't like your current reality, you can flip it when you flip your focus. Stand up, own your life, and start making intentional choices to seize your power of agency and move yourself towards your best life. You'll feel the empowerment that comes from taking control of your life. You'll feel the satisfaction that comes from making progress towards your goals. And you'll learn how to stay positive no matter what negative experiences come your way. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
See truth Most people, single or married, simply accept what they're given. They don't chase what they want. The result is they often don't get what they want. And not getting what they want, they end up unhappy. They settle for a life far beneath their privileges. It doesn't have to be that way for anyone. And yes, anyone includes YOU! I don't care what's happened to you or where you're from or how old you are or any of that business. Results come from one thing and one thing only, and that's action. Period. Take the same actions, you get the same results. Take different actions, you get different results. Once you stop over-thinking it and just accept the simplicity of that truth, it's easier to see other truths, like the need to own your life. After all, if your results come from your actions, then the only way your life gets better is with better actions. And that means accepting responsibility for how your life results and start choosing actions that will produce the results you want. Think right Most don't really struggle with grasping the Law of the Harvest. They know they need more effective actions to get more effective results. What many struggle with are the details. They don't know exactly what actions are the more effective ones. "What specific actions," they ask, "do I need to take to get the specific results I want?" If you're asking that question, understand you'll never know the answer you should have for that question if you don't get your thinking right. Sound bonkers? It's still completely true. We don't just act; we're not hardwired that way. We're biologically hardwired to play out habit. And that means some thinking had to occur before we took any action. Without understanding why you've chosen to act as you have in the past, you won't know what you need to choose in the future to get different results. Understanding the connection between what you've done and what you got will help you know what changes you need in what you do to get changes in what you get. Break free One of my favorite scenes in the film Jack Reacher is when Jack is in Helen's office helping her understand why her client is innocent. To open her mind to new possibilities, Jack has Helen look at people working late in a neighboring building. He slowly steps her through seeing through new eyes what she's seen before too many times to count. And he does it by entertaining an important philosophical question of what it truly means to be free. True freedom exists in how you think. Changing how you think lets you see more clearly the connections between what you've done and what you got. You can see new possibilities for getting something different. You can see the changes you need in yourself to embrace those possibilities. And you can see how that future can be yours regardless of what's happened to you or where you're from or how old you are or any of that business. Break yourself free of a life far less than the one you're capable of living. God gave you agency so you could choose for yourself what you'll do. Choose to learn the connections between how you think, what you do, and what you get. Then choose to leverage that knowledge in better actions designed to yield better results. When you consistently choose to plant and nurture seeds of more effective action, over time you'll reap a harvest of more effective results. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
Take God's approach to the Creation, for example. He knew what He wanted, and He took action to make it happen. He didn't sit around believing everything would somehow work out just because He was righteous. He took action that brought about what He wanted. Likewise, you can sit around and pretend the blessings you want will come simply because you're righteous. Or you can follow God's example and take action to create your best life. Own your life I love how the Creation starts the scriptural record. That placement reinforces the metaphor that story is for creating your best life. And anyone can follow God's example to do just that. God didn't simply start creating. He worked from a plan requiring action. In so doing, God took responsibility for producing desired results. And He remained resolute in executing that plan. How is simply staying on the covenant path hoping your blessings come "when the time is right" working from an action plan? That choice places responsibility for how your life results in God's hands. That's not the example God set. To follow God's example, own your life. Don't push responsibility for the results in your life to anyone else. You take responsibility for your results in your life. Every result you want in life comes by obedience to its respective principle (D&C 130:20-21). Only action produces results. So get your action plan together and start taking action. Include the right people Many LDS singles stop here. They just don't know the specific actions they need to take in order to produce the result they desire. It's hard to have a plan when you don't know what to put in the plan. Again, let's "look to God and live" (Alma 37:47). God had helpers during the Creation. He gave them His vision of what He wanted, and then He worked with them as they together performed the Creation. God didn't work alone and didn't force anyone to do what He wanted. Instead, He exercised His influence and respected agency. You shouldn't go it alone, either. Make sure you include the right people in your action plan who'll help you achieve your results. Of course, the most important helper in your plan should be the Lord. When you partner with Him, He can help you make more out of your life than you can without Him. And there's others you should consider. Family, friends, and Church leaders can provide valuable support along your journey. Especially helpful is an advocate, someone who provides counsel, support, and accountability for specific actions. Some will trust their bishop or a ministering brother or sister with that role. Others might look to a sibling or special friend. Still others might find that help in Joy in the Journey Radio, and we're here for you if that's your choice. Influence positively Do you see how just going through the motions of being righteous and waiting for the "right time" doesn't match how God acts? Following His example of taking ownership, developing a plan, and then securing a team to work towards a common result will more likely produce the best life we all seek. And yes, not everyone will be on board. Some people will disappoint you, but let's again look to God's example. He always respected agency. He never forced anyone to help Him achieve His plan. Instead, He chose to act in ways that would influence others positively in their choices. You can do likewise. As you achieve your potential by making needed changes in you, you can radiate an energy that will influence others positively in their choices. So quit sitting on the sidelines and get in the game of life! You'll never score any points unless you're on the field. Don't sit around pretending the blessings you want will come simply because you're righteous. Follow God's example, own your life, get your plan together, and take action to create your best life. When you take responsibility for your results and then take the right actions, you'll get the right results. And that will bring you more joy in your journey.
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Everton ended up without much incoming activity on transfer deadline day. While there was the promise of a number of players possibly coming in, the Blues were very effectively repudiated by pretty much every club they approached on the last day of the summer transfer window.
Late bids for Wilfried Gnonto, Harrison Reed, Kamaldeen Sulemana and Maxwell Cornet were declined, and that's only the players we know about. There well may have been twice that number contacted for desperate loans that were also summarily rejected, even while clubs with half the fanbase of the Toffees celebrated bringing in prominent players from all over the continent.
Manager Sean Dyche had attempted to prepare the Blues for this, saying during Thursday's pre-match press conference that the club would only be pursuing deals that made sense from a fiscal perspective. But even with at least one more domestic loan possible, the club chose instead to keep the wallet closed and not pay loan fees or additional wages for any more players.
That Alex Iwobi and Tom Cannon left the club bringing in close to £30 million and were not replaced only reopened recent wounds to blue hearts, still ailing from watching Richarlison and then Anthony Gordon leave in successive transfer windows and the funds carefully stashed away, wherever Jimmy Hoffa and The Arteta Money™ are buried.
In many respects, this was a disappointing end to the summer transfer window. Looking at it one way, Everton are worse off than they were last season, with a pretty poor start to the season and some significant deficiencies at key positions that were not addressed during the summer.
However, if I lean the other way, tilt my head at this particular angle and squint really hard, I am able to spot a sliver of light in the darkness that shows me a vision of a comfortable midtable finish during a season with minimal unsettling of the old cardiac unit. Once the squad settles in with the five new additions and gets into rhythm, Sean Dyche might yet get a tune out of them in key games. By those I don't mean the regularly scheduled whippings at the top sides, but more so the games against the teams mired in the same mediocrity as us.
The problem is that those relegation rivals are taking more proactive steps to have a drama-free season than we have. Our utterly inept — and let's face it, savagely self-destructive ownership — have prioritized using the meagre funds generated from player sales to pay for the new stadium and servicing debt instead of buying quality players to improve Everton Football Club.
That the Board continue to do so with such impunity and utter contempt is a failing of ours as a fanbase. Majority shareowner Farhad Moshiri came through on his promise of getting us a striker, only about seven months later than was needed. Is he expecting to be praised for that? And how about our good ol' thespian president, Bill Kenwright, holding on to the fading dreams of the days of the old boys club like one clutching at the wispy mist. Bet he believes Luis Rubiales is a fine upstanding proponent of magnanimous manhood.
Even a smidgeon of transparency and accountability would have gone a long way to soothe the fans' concerns, but no, there remains a desperate need to control any information pertaining to the running of the club.
On that note, a certain Kevin Thelwell doesn't get a Get Out of Jail Free card here either. His predecessor at the Director of Football job gave up his Board position and walked away from the role when it became clear he was not being allowed to do what his position entailed. The former Wolves scouting legend took the job knowing exactly what it entailed, and who he needed to kowtow to. He's made sure not to rustle any feathers in his time, and has toed the party line while doing just enough to keep himself employed.
Speaking of reciting from the hymn sheet, our manager Sean Dyche has made sure not to step on any toes in his brief tenure here. He's certainly been paid handsomely for surviving relegation and taking over this poisoned chalice of a job with a number of different bosses looking over your shoulder at every step, and choosing not to do a Julen.
There is still the sword of Damocles the ruling from the independent commission for an alleged breach of Premier League Profit and Sustainability rules hanging over Everton's head, with a points deduction and/or transfer ban very real possibilities this season. As our brother in blue Sir Stevo Timothy so validly pointed out, you can't take away any points from a team that has none! More to come on that, especially since that panel only meets in October and if we still have no points then we'll have a whole other kettle of fish to address.
Back to the matter of the piece, which was to rant and rave about how the Toffees did little to resolve the key problems in the squad.
Behind Jordan Pickford in goal, are we really entrusting our survival to an unproven Joao Virginia? Dyche didn't even trust him between the sticks against the bottom side in the entire Football League, and yet we are one Pickers injury away from watching Virginia attempting to keep us afloat. Yikes.
The central defence was a problem last season, with the perennially-injured Yerry Mina having to save us, and now we're banking on a raw Jarrad Branthwaite to keep an aging but still dashingly handsome James Tarkowski company in a leaky defence. Behind them are 'a one year older and therefore one year slower' Michael Keane, and The Artist Defender Formerly Known as Prince Ben Godfrey because whoever this person is we don't really recognize.
Meanwhile, we will soon be the only club in the northern hemisphere to field two pensioners at one of the most demanding positions in the modern game, but hey, we're doing great with succession planning at fullback aren't we?
It would be unfair to speak about dashingly handsome footballers without mentioning Andre Gomes, and yes, we will get to enjoy that visage for yet another season because dang it, we weren't able to get rid of that millstone of a contract yet. Hopefully Amadou Onana has learned enough in one year to cover for an increasingly error-prone Idrissa Gueye and cement-boots Abdoulaye Doucoure.
The wide positions and strike force are certainly in better shape though, will have to admit that. They might not have anyone to distribute the ball out wide or ping it into the box. but things will only get Beto, won't they?
You could have scrolled straight down all the way here and saved yourself some time and heartache, but yes, Everton didn't sign anyone on deadline day and now will go into a third straight relegation scrap desperately clutching their prayer beads that the injury gods smile favourably upon the Toffees so that we can continue to call ourselves a Premier League outfit next summer.
Transferred - Moise Kean, Ellis Simms, Niels Nkounkou, Tom Cannon, Alex Iwobi
Loaned - Mason Holgate, Neal Maupay
Released - Yerry Mina, Tom Davies, Asmir Begovic, Andros Townsend
End of Loan - Conor Coady, Ruben Vinagre
Transferred - Youssef Chermiti, Beto
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U.S. based DJ and producer ANATTA has been dominating the minimal/deep tech house scene since his project took off just two years ago. Already garnering over 500,000 streams and three #1 Minimal/Deep-Tech EPs, ANATTA returns with his latest single "Steam Rollin'" in collaboration with bass house producer HONÜ and multi-instrumentalist Fred Paci. "Steam Rollin'" was a straight jam! We made this beat in one night and knew Fred was the guy to lay down some trumpet right away. Steam Rollin' came together very nicely and we are glad it is finally seeing the light of day!"
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"Life in Santa Barbara" Memoir Contest
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The Indy will be kicking off 2008 right by publishing the winners of a memoir contest in next year's first issue. That means we need Santa Barbarans to start sending us their memoirs immediately.
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The South Carolina Gamecocks have only had three-five star recruits—Jadeveon Clowney, Chris Culliver and Marcus Lattimore—during the Spurrier era.
If they land OL Isaiah Wilson, an offensive lineman from Brooklyn's Poly Prep, then it will be three. Everything about the rising junior is big: his size (6'6', 330), the number of offers (19 and counting), and his projected impact, ranked as the nation's top OL and a top-15 player overall nationally in his class. He recently released his top 10 and the Gamecocks are in it with Auburn, Alabama, Florida State, Ohio State, Maryland, Nebraska, Miami (Oh.), Michigan and Rutgers, with no favorite thus far. (ICYMI, this is a very, very large young man. You can teach a football player a lot of things, but 6'6", 330 isn't one of them.)
A little bit closer to home, we're set to hear Lithonia (Ga.) DE Jordan Smith's announcement tomorrow at 2pm at his high school. Smith, the #34 weakside DE in the 2016 class over at Rivals, is expected to choose the Gamecocks over schools like Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, LSU and a host of other.
Some other tidbits to pass along:
--2017 safety Xavier McKinney can add South Carolina to his growing offer sheet. The Roswell (Ga.) product has a good list, too, although it's short: Alabama and Clemson as of now. But keep in mind that he's a junior. That list is set to grow fairly fast before too long.
--A couple of offers to in-state high school sophomores came down the pike during a busy weekend: one of them was 2018 Rock Hill (S.C.) South Pointe ATH Derion Kendrick. Kendrick, who has been offered by Clemson, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, attended camp on Saturday. We'll see if that pipeline to the Charlotte suburb continues to pay dividends.
--Another in-state rising sophomore joined Kendrick on the Gamecocks' list of offered 2018's. Xavier Thomas, a DE from Wilson High in Florence, has also been offered by Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, Nebraska and Tennessee, with that list sure to grow before he's a senior.
--By the way, USC has offered a total of twenty-two players from the class of 2018: a quarterback, four running backs, a wide receiver, two offensive tackles, three defensive ends, a defensive tackle, two outside linebackers, four cornerbacks and four athletes. While the saying "The early bird gets the worm" doesn't always work in recruiting, it doesn't hurt to get a head start.


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Sanford, MI WW/Press/January 11, 2021– Karen L. Kimble, a Patent and Trademark Attorney and President of Technology Law PLLC was selected for inclusion as a President's Circle Member into the Top Attorneys of North America 2020-2021 edition of The Who's Who Directories.
is located in Sanford, Michigan specializing in technology based intellectual ideas to all parts of the globe, they include: technology licensing, patent drafting, patent prosecutions, and trademarks.
Ms. Karen Kimble is a Patent and Trademark attorney with 48 years of a broad range of IP experience with working knowledge of 125+ countries IP laws and patent use. Additionally, has specific expertise in treaties relevant to Intellectual Property. Has written numerous agreements, e.g., JDA, licensing agreements, complex collaborative research arrangements, due diligence for mergers and patent purchases, and red herring documents for IPO. Of course, has done research agreements, CDA/NDA and other related patent/technology agreements globally. Technical Expertise: Focus on Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Areas including organic chemistry, small molecule pharmaceutical moieties, biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and limited biotechnology, including plant based pharmaceutical efforts, various chemical products that are non-pharmaceutical and simple devices for medical or plant uses. Has expertise in agricultural pate and plant pate. Also some grant work resulting from NIH, DOD, DOE and small business development through State of Michigan initiatives and various referrals. Is known in international practice areas.
Attorney Kimble received a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University-Purdue University – JD, Law; Purdue University – MS, Chemistry; St. Cloud University – (Awarded Outstanding Senior Chemist) BA, Chemistry. She is a member of the Michigan State Bar since August 1985, Indiana State Bar since 1990(inactive, can be reactivated), USPTO Bar(1973 as an agent, 1980 as an attorney), Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit(CAFC) since February 1983; United States District Court Eastern District of Michigan since June 1986; United States District Court Southern District of Indiana since May 1980; AIPLA Licensing, international Law, PCT, chemical practice and biotechnology, alternate dispute resolution; Michigan State Bar Intellectual Property Section; ACS 1962 on (50 year award).
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The pros and cons of self-publishing your business book
10 March 2016 by Richard Burton in Book publishing, Business and finance, Publishing for business
Why go through all the hassle of finding a commercial publisher for your breakthrough book on strategic thinking when it's so easy to self-publish? After all, you've done all the hard work just writing it haven't you? Why would you give it to a publisher who will pay you a measly 10% royalty when you can have complete control and all the revenue by merely entrusting your manuscript to one of the many self-publishing services available? Surely a no-brainer.
The number of self-publishing businesses has risen dramatically in the past few years, mainly due to affordable POD – that's 'print on demand', the ability to print single copies of a book, to order – technology. Self-publishing involves uploading a manuscript onto the website of a business such as Lulu, choosing a cover and interior designs from a selection of templates, or using your own, then through POD technology printing as few or as many copies as you require. As the author you'll pay the self-publishing company to upload your book and then they will probably take a slice of revenue from any further copies sold.
Working through a self-publishing company can be a good, cost-effective solution to getting into print. But the self-publishing process stops there. At print. You've got as many copies of your book as you ordered and unless you have set it all up in advance you have no distribution, no marketing, no links with wholesalers to supply customer orders. In short, no sales. Setting up the infrastructure that ensures your customers can be supplied with your book involves a great deal of work, and that's before you begin the marketing effort. But an established publisher will naturally have all this set up.
A commercial publisher will also market your book. Sure, they will be marketing it to the book trade, to the media and to foreign language publishers and to their own lists of customers, and they will rely on you to promote it in your own networks, but the chances are that most of the sales will come from their promotion rather than yours. There isn't much chance of you knowing how to do all that global trade marketing, even if you had the time and energy.
Something else that tells against self-publishing is production quality. When you entrust your manuscript to a self-publishing service you may well find that your options in terms of controlling the way the book looks are limited. Not all self-publishing services are the same but the more cost effective the service the more likely it is that the website you use will chuck a terrible book back at you. A huge amount of work goes into turning a manuscript into a bookstore quality product. Commercial publishers employ copy editors, proof-readers, typesetters, text designers, cover designers, indexers and, of course, printers. Needless to say you won't get all that for the £1000 you transfer to your anonymous self-publisher.
And you need to think about whether your brand is big enough in your network to overcome the resistance many people still have to self-published books. After all, you've paid to have it published (well, printed anyway) and anyone could do that provided they are willing to spend a few hundred pounds. How do people know it's any good? They will trust a commercially published product far more than a self-published one because an editor has read it and decided it is good enough for her to invest a considerable amount of money in.
So think about it carefully. In summary:
Self-publishing gives you complete control over the packaging, pricing, design, marketing and distribution of your book. It allows you to keep the lion's share of the income. You can produce it to your own schedule, as quickly as you like. You don't have the depressing task of trying to find a publisher who will take the commercial risk on your book.
On the other hand you are probably not an expert at book packaging, pricing, design, marketing and distribution, so you are less likely to make a great fist of it than an experienced publisher. You are almost certainly going to end up with an inferior physical product compared with competing titles produced to book shop standards. And if you're planning to use your book to promote your brand a self-published product won't have the same cachet as a book that's been published by Penguin.
In short, if you're a well-known expert on rail travel in and around Nuneaton in the nineteenth century and you are already on first name terms with everyone in the world who is likely to buy your book self-publishing your book is the obvious route to take. Otherwise, think carefully about the options.
Zombie identification for beginners
25 February 2016 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Entertainment, Working With The Walking Dead
By now you should have had enough time to settle in to watching the rest of season 6 of The Walking Dead and you may have noticed a few parallels between the show and your work life. However, if you're wondering what on earth we're on about, then perhaps you need some help identifying the zombies of your office. It may surprise you to learn that the office joker is a walker underneath all the bravado and banter. And did you know that what you have for lunch can indicate whether you or your colleague are also walkers? It can be difficult to tell who is and who is not a zombie in large offices but here are some helpful tips to help you be on the lookout and hopefully help you avoid the pitfalls of becoming one yourself.
They're followers. Watch a herd of walkers and you will note that they all move in the same direction at the same speed, only changing course in response to noise or movement. There's no independent thinking, no courage or daring. Thus it is with the walkers in your workplace – they do the job as prescribed, and no more.
They arrive on the stroke of 9 and leave at exactly 5. They go to lunch at the same time every day, refuse to stray outside the bounds of the system ('More than my job's worth') and are careful to avoid doing anything not in their job description. Their job is just something they have to do 35 hours a week in order that they can collect a pay cheque every month. It's something to be got through and survived. They slow down projects by insisting they can only do the work within their fixed systems and schedules.
They're the office joker. Office jokers may seem happy but this is just a way of getting through the day – it's the only way they get meaning from being at work. They carve out a niche for themselves – everybody knows who they are – but they are never going to be taken seriously. Which means their career progress within a particular organization is going to be limited. They distract colleagues from their work and disrupt company culture.
They resist change. Regardless of whether it's moving the coffee machine, changing the invoicing system or a complete departmental restructure they don't like it and it's not going to work. In fact they'll do all they can to ensure it doesn't. You'll never see the resistors put as much effort or creative energy into anything as they put into trying to keep things the way they've always been. Not all changes are good and some have huge implications for the business and the individuals working within it but these people haven't thought deeply about the changes – they just dislike them because they are not what went before.
They're always right but they're never willing to put their money where their mouth is. This kind of workplace walker could spend the whole day telling colleagues why management is doing everything wrong, and will bore you for an entire lunch hour if you're unlucky enough to encounter them in the canteen. They particularly love introducing new recruits to all the flaws of the department or organization – it gives them a sense of power. They create a bad atmosphere in a team, making their manager's job a lot harder.
It's not their fault. Zombies never own up to their mistakes, not even to themselves, which means they can never learn from them. With the workplace walker there's always a reason for an error but it's because of some failing in the system or a problem created by one of their co-workers: 'I wasn't given the figures from accounts in good time', 'I only did what the project manager told me', 'that's the answer the system gave when I put the information in'. They can become aggressive if any suggestion is made that they could have done something to mitigate the situation and make more work for their manager and colleagues because somebody else has to sort out their errors.
They don't stand out, or they stand out for the wrong reasons. A typical office zombie just won't get noticed by management outside their department. If they do catch somebody's eye it's likely to be for the wrong reasons: 'Oh yeah, the guy who's always playing practical jokes', 'Is she the one that really kicked up a fuss when we moved the coffee machine?' This is not the route to promotion.
They eat the same lunch every day. In 2015 research undertaken for butter manufacturer Lurpak into the eating habits of 2,000 office workers revealed that 32 per cent of UK workers eat exactly the same lunch each day – a cheese sandwich. The average worker has been doing this for almost four and a half years and despite the monotony, 40 per cent of respondents said that lunch is usually the highlight of their working day. That's just depressing, and seems to be further evidence of a lack of care about work, that it is something routine, just to be got through. In order to work at your best you need to be in good health; nutritionists advise that to help achieve that goal we should eat a wide variety of foods; just one reason to shake up your lunch habits.
Just as the humans in the series all carry the virus and are capable of becoming walkers, we all have the facility to fall into workplace zombie habits. But now you know what to look out for you'll be able to catch yourself if you ever seem to be behaving like a walker and pull yourself back onto the path to career success.
What would Rick do? Ten career-boosting tips from The Walking Dead
15 February 2016 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Working With The Walking Dead
The most talked about show on TV, The Walking Dead, returns to British screens this evening. Adrenaline-infused, gory and at times heartbreaking, the show has garnered a huge fan-base over the last six years and is promising to ramp up the action still further this spring. But as well as high-octane human drama, the hit series is the source of some surprisingly good advice for anybody interested in boosting their career, claims a new book published this month. Working With The Walking Dead uses incidents, themes and characters from the show to demonstrate how readers can avoid becoming one of the walker herd at work. Included are these ten tips:
- Work out your mission: without a goal, work can become mindless toil; witness Abraham's energy when Eugene tells him he has an important mission for him – and his distress when he discovers it has all been a sham.
- Pick the right organization: it is much easier to work in a place that shares your approach to career building. Rick's group is like a family in which everybody is invested, while Joe's Claimers all aim for individual self-advancement – which doesn't suit Daryl.
- Speak up: follow the rules, stick to your job description and don't ask questions and pretty soon you'll find you are one of the walker herd. To get noticed you need to take every opportunity you can to show you are thinking creatively and wholly engaged with pushing the business forward.
- Respect others: Deanna's inclusive style of leadership makes everybody feel valued. She listens, considers and aims for consensus rather than forcing her views on others, and Alexandria is (OK, was) a peaceful and well-ordered town as a result.
- Take a break: Rick never allowed himself to stop for a moment. It eventually took its toll on him as he began to hallucinate dead members of his group, including his wife. A lesson for us all on the importance of rest.
- Love your mistakes: most are not career-fatal. As Deanna says, 'Some day this pain will be useful to you', so treat mistakes as learning opportunities. Just make sure you don't repeat them.
- Be adaptable: one crucial difference between the show's survivors and those who failed to make it past the first season is the ability to take changing circumstances in their stride – even benefit from them. Embracing change is the only way to avoid getting left behind in business.
- Don't be a bastard: the demise of The Governor, Dawn and the residents of Terminus demonstrates that nasty guys do not finish first. Ambition does not mean destroying everybody in your path: Daryl's competent, tough, nice – and still around.
- Dare to be different: don't think there is only one way to get to the top. Just as, in the safety of Alexandria, Rick yearned for the danger of the outside world, some people are simply not cut out for corporate life. Setting out on your own may be a less sure route to success but that's all part of the thrill.
- Walkers aren't the main problem: our gang's survival would be easy if all they had to worry about were the undead; it's the other people who create danger. Careers don't happen in isolation, so keep an eye on what your ambitious colleagues are doing.
By presenting simple business concepts in an entertaining way the book aims to encourage people who may never have picked up a business book before to engage with their careers.
The best business card you'll ever have is about 200 pages long
12 February 2016 by Richard Burton in Book publishing, Business and finance, Publishing for business
This week's prestigious Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year award has underlined, once again, the value of ideas to business. The winner, Frugal Innovation: How to do more with less by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu, demonstrates how businesses can grow quickly on limited resources. Management makes things happen. Anyone who doubts this should consider Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove's short article in Harvard Business Review. Crainer, co-founder of Thinkers50, the world's most prestigious management guru ranking, points out that the 'best business books are acted upon, they change the way leaders lead and how managers manage. This is not an idle ambition. The most impressive and successful leaders tend to be voracious readers. They want to know about the latest research and ideas. This is especially true in emerging markets. CEOs like Zhang Ruimin at Haier have used business books as an education in business best practice. There is nothing so practical as a great idea.'
And, something that is frequently overlooked, there's nothing so rewarding as being the originator of a great idea. The world's most sought-after cross-cultural management expert, Fons Trompenaars, has claimed that since publishing influential books like Riding the Whirlwind, The Global M&A Tango and 100+ Management Models his speaking engagements and fees have doubled, his profile tripled and his clients quadrupled. 'I highly recommend you to get your ideas on paper, particularly if they are unique,' he says. Trompenaars is quite right to say that if you've got interesting ideas you need to record them, but you also need to distribute them, and there is simply no better way to do it than in a book. Why? Because people don't throw books away. Getting a publisher to commit to your book idea isn't easy (unless you're already a well-known author), but self-publishing gives you a product that has far less impact. As, Barry Gibbons, former global CEO of Burger King and author of six books in including If You Want to Make God Really Laugh Show Him Your Business Plan, says, 'A published book (accent on 'published') can bring a string of powerful indirect benefits. It can boost a CV. It can take the place of a business card, with 1000 times the impact. It can open up lucrative speaking or consulting opportunities. It can enhance an author's reputation in a defined target market.' Gibbons is a prolific and entertaining speaker who addresses huge conferences from Las Vegas to Bangkok, and there's no doubt that his books have helped him get to where he is. In fact if you want to be on the speaking circuit and you haven't got a book published you have a huge hurdle to overcome. Brendan Barns, formerly CEO of Speakers for Business and founder of London Business Forum, insists that having a business book published can give instant credibility to an author, especially if it's in partnership with a major publisher. 'This can,' he says 'open the door to a lucrative speaking career, especially if the author has some charisma.'
A published book can also have some more subtle effects on the authors profile. Ken Langdon is the author of 20 practical business books (and ghost-writer of several more) and he points out that it massively enhances your search engine profile. A Google search on many business managers wouldn't throw up much apart from a LinkedIn page which is, of course, their own writing. Google an author, however, and you get their Amazon page along with the publisher's potted history of the author. (The author may also have written this but it doesn't look like that.) If you want to see the effect for yourself just type 'Ken Langdon' into Google.
The Process Approach – everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler
26 January 2016 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Implementing ISO 9001:2015
Paul Simpson, co-author of Implementing ISO 9001:2015 looks into how applying the Process Approach can make reregistering for ISO 9001:2015 easier than you think.
It's highly likely that many of us seeking improvement in effectiveness and efficiency of the way our work functions see process analysis and mapping done well as part of the solution. However, when done badly they can get in the way.
We've probably all seen the extremes – on the one hand perhaps a wall full of mind-sapping detail, on the other a series of banal boxes neither helping staff and leaders. So this quote, 'Everything should be made simple as possible, but no simpler' attributed to Albert Einstein, is a useful stimulus in thinking about making process analysis useful, and to help ISO 9001:2015 registration.
The point of analysing our processes is to ensure we understand how each process works and what we need to do as individuals, leaders and organisations to ensure the process operates efficiently and delivers effectively. So that's it – simple! We sit down flowchart the process step back and say 'Abracadabra' and we've stepped into a state of Nirvana through the Process Approach. If only it were so.
Let's take a step back from the quote and do some digging:
- The published quote from Einstein that comes closest to 'our' subtitle is: 'It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.'Now apart from being a lot less easy to read and understand this more complex quote covers a lot more ground and options that we will address later.
- How this came to be attributed to Einstein is through an article in the New York Times by the composer Roger Sessions where he says: 'I also remember a remark of Albert Einstein, which certainly applies to music. He said, in effect, that everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler!'
So please forgive me as I translate the Einstein quote into a summary we can apply to our process analysis as we look to make transition to ISO 9001:2015 certification:
We have to break each process down into as few simple steps as possible based on our experience of how they work in real life. And we must ensure that we understand their relationships and contribution to the other processes in the overall system in generating outputs for the customer.
So for each process step, we need a more profound understanding of the activity than just to type a simple flowchart box description.
Taking an everyday example: most manufacturing processes and many service deliveries have a final flowchart box: 'Deliver goods / Drive to service delivery point' – Abracadabra again!
Again, if only it were that simple. Most blog readers have real world experience of driving. In the UK where I drive most, it is notoriously unpredictable and the same applies for every national capital and many trunk roads in most countries around the globe. If we are to truly understand the process approach we need to spend time and effort on that one box on our flowchart 'Deliver goods'.
Here is a short list I came up with that frame the activity:
- Delivery instructions
- Available vehicle
- Loading arrangements
- Distance to customer
- Available driver
- Traffic situation
- Accidents
- Weather conditions
- Customer security procedures
- Unloading arrangements
The process approach says you have a good understanding of each activity element and can control them to satisfy your customer.
Drilling down into a couple then:
Available driver
- Licence to drive vehicle class?
- Competent to act as your organisation representative out on the road?
- Current clean licence?
- Time on tachograph to complete planned job?
Contingency for:
- Peaks in demand?
- Holiday / sickness absence?
- Traffic situation
- At departure time?
- At planned return time?
- Roadworks on the primary route?
- Alternative routes in the event of a disruption?
- Major events (sporting / social) along planned route(s)?
- Unusual expected traffic pattern (holiday periods)?
In order to demonstrate they have 'determined' their processes (under the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 Clause 4.4.1) organisations need to answer all bullets above (and a lot more I haven't thought of). Many answers won't come from the same area the driver is in but may be carried out by individuals working in other processes: recruitment / licence checking (perhaps in HR), or traffic monitoring (in a central logistics function) for example. So our organisational complexity builds and we have a range of support processes influencing our ability to 'Deliver' – a single box in one order fulfilment process. Obviously, this is now a lot of work but it does have a purpose: By understanding our process better we are able to improve it and cope with eventualities as and when they happen.
When we have done this we will have taken our ISO 9001 quality management system from a 'thin skim' document to an efficient, resilient way of working and we will have satisfied quality management principle 4 – Process Approach: 'Consistent and predictable results are achieved more effectively and efficiently when activities are understood and managed as interrelated processes that function as a coherent system.'
'Leadership is often a duet rather than a solo'
21 January 2016 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance
We're used to seeing leaders exerting their charisma and putting forth their opinions, but we hardly see the collaborators, those who made the leader look so good. Being Number Two may not sound like a very attractive position to most aspiring entrepreneurs, but Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove, authors of What we mean when we talk about leadership, show that it can be the person behind the spotlight who gets all the glory.
Do we have unrealistic expectations of our corporate and political leaders? This was one of the questions we asked Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter when we spoke. Her answer was illuminating: 'Yes. If the expectation is that a single leader can do it all then it is unrealistic. But it is also interesting how much a single leader can set in motion. In turnarounds it is quite striking how much fresh leadership can accomplish by unlocking talent and potential that was already there in the organization but which was stifled by rules, regulations and bureaucracy.'
So, individual leaders can be hugely influential and powerful. They can change things. But, and it is an awfully big but, leaders are nothing without followers. And some follow more closely than others. Look around at many great leaders and you will see a reliable accomplice at their side – think Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett, William Whitelaw and Margaret Thatcher, Alistair Campbell and Tony Blair and so on. Leadership is often a duet rather than a solo.
So, the John Wayne type of heroic leadership loner is history? We asked leadership guru Warren Bennis. 'Yes, the Lone Ranger is dead,' he replied:
Instead of the individual problem solver we have a new model for creative achievement. People like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney headed groups and found their own greatness in them. The new leader is a pragmatic dreamer, a person with an original but attainable vision. Ironically, the leader is able to realize his or her dream only if the others are free to do exceptional work. Typically, the leader is the one who recruits the others, by making the vision so palpable and seductive that they see it, too, and eagerly sign up.
Chris Gibson-Smith, chairman of the London Stock Exchange and a former BP executive, emphasized the teamwork element of business – and of leadership: 'Business is a team-based enterprise; there are almost no exceptions. The combined brain is a bigger brain than the individual brain. There is almost no problem that is not better solved by engaging a group of the right sort of people with the right skills in the solution harmoniously.'
Richard Hytner, deputy chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi, has studied leadership duos and champions the role of the much neglected number two. The reality, he points out, is that we can't all be number ones – there aren't enough number one roles in the first place and many of us would be ill-suited to them anyway. 'The truth is we spend most of our careers, even as heads of functions, factories, geographies or service lines, serving at least one master, yet choose to shape our identity as early as we can as a number one, a supreme leader. Where, after all, is the glamour in shaping an identity as one who merely advises or assists?' says Hytner.
What is needed is a new model of leadership for all leading players, one that assigns roles clearly and aspirationally, and one that encourages more people to discover, through choice, not just the well-trodden path to the top but the joys of leading from the shadows as a destination in its own right. By conflating all types of leader into just two: A – the ultimately Accountable – and C – the Consiglieri (there are usually more than one) who liberate, enlighten and deliver for the A, the role of the second is elevated to equal amongst firsts, circumventing the tyranny of the number one's titular supremacy and the prevailing undercurrent of 'second syndrome'.
The original consiglieri were the advisers to leaders of Italian mafia families, made famous by Mario Puzo's novel, The Godfather. As Richard Hytner makes clear, consiglieri also operate in more legitimate fields.
They are the deputies, assistants and counselors who support, inform and advise the final decision-makers of organizations. Consiglieri – or Cs – are leader makers and leaders in their own right. While only a few go on to become ultimate A leaders, many more perform roles in which they make, shape, illuminate and enhance the success of the out-andout A leader and the organization. 'The majority of consiglieri positively embrace their roles,' says Hytner:
They have not settled gloomily for C after having their love for A spurned. They have learnt the joys of influencing As whom they admire and respect. They wish to be close to power across their organizations and to have autonomy to get their jobs done. They are insatiable learners, accruing new experience as if their life depends on it (which, as some consiglieri have discovered, it sometimes does). They have found their greatest and most consistent pleasure in helping others reach their full potential.
The first question for leaders is whether they are prepared to recognize that leadership is not an activity performed by them in splendid isolation. The second is how they can best create and work with their own consiglieri.
Richard Hytner, Consiglieri (Profile, 2014).


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The Boys: Black Noir's New homelander twist
The Boys is a 2019 action fiction TV series that tells the story of a group of vigilantes who take down corrupt superheroes. The show has been praised for its dark and gritty tone, as well as its interesting characters. If you're looking for an action-packed show to watch, The Boys is definitely worth checking out!
The series is produced by Amazon Studios and was created by Erik Kripke. The Boys stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Nathan Mitchell, and Elisabeth Shue. The first season of The Boys consists of eight episodes and was released in 2019.
Who is the cast in The Boys?
The Boys is an American action fiction television series that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on July 26, 2019.
The show is set in a world where superheroes exist and are marketed and exploited by powerful corporations. A group of vigilantes known as "The Boys" set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than their fists and wits. The Boys is based on the comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
The cast of The Boys includes Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Nathan Mitchell, and Elisabeth Shue.
What is the plot of The Boys?
The Boys is set in a world where superheroes are real and have been corrupted by their celebrity status. The Boys is a group of vigilantes who set out to take down these corrupt heroes. The show has been described as "a fun, subversive take on what happens when superhero fantasies go horribly wrong."
The Boys was created by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, who also serve as executive producers. The series is produced by Amazon Studios. The Boys has received positive reviews from critics.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has an approval rating of 76% based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of /100. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though The Boys doesn't always hit its mark, it's a thoroughly entertaining – and often disturbing – ride through the superhero genre that should satisfy fans looking for something different." The Boys was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards: Best Television Series – Drama and Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Eric Kripke. The series won the former category.
The Boys also won the Saturn Award for Best Streaming Superhero Series. The show has renewed for a second season, which has premiered in 2020. The executive producers are Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver. The series is in a world where superpower individuals are recognised as heroes by the general public and powerful corporations has own, with The Boys representing a vigilante group keeping them in check.
The series has been well received by critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds a rating of 86%, with an average score of 73 out of 100 based on 65 reviews.
What are some reviews on The Boys?
On Metacritic, the first season has a score of 73 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".
IGN gave the first season an "Amazing" rating of / The A.V. Club called it a "frequently great show that's just as interested in superhero deconstruction as it is wanton destruction." The New York Times wrote that The Boys is "a gore-spattered satire that doubles as a reasonably sharp critique of superhero worship."
The Boys has been described as "a deconstruction of the superhero genre". The show has received positive reviews for its action sequences, acting, plot, themes, and dark tone. Critics have compared The Boys to Watchmen and Preacher. The Boys has also been praised for its handling of sensitive topics such as rape. And child abuse, paedophilia, fascism, and vigilantism.


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On Thursday, Hilaria Baldwin took to Instagram to share another health update regarding her latest pregnancy with her followers.
Hilaria revealed earlier this year that she is welcoming yet another child, a daughter, with husband Alec Baldwin. The couple tied the knot in 2012 and welcomed their first child in 2013.
Hilaria and the "30 Rock" actor share children Carmen Gabriela, 8, Rafael Thomas, 7, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 5, Romeo Alejandro David, 3 1/2, and Eduardo "Edu" Pao Lucas, who was born in September 2020. María Lucía Victoria, the couple's newest daughter, was born last spring. Alec Baldwin also has a daughter, Ireland Baldwin, 26, with ex-wife Kim Basinger. Alec and Kim were married from 1993 to 2002.
Hilaria Baldwin Shares Video Doing 'Pelvic Floor Concentration' Exercises As She And Alec Baldwin Prepare To Welcome Their Latest Baby!
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In a lengthy caption, Hilaria revealed that she is in her final stages of pregnancy. She revealed that she was due in the fall, but did not give her fans an exact due date.
"As I begin the final trimester of this pregnancy, I feel my body slowing down," she wrote in the caption of the video. "I love exercising while pregnant and feel grateful that my pregnancies have allowed for me to be active."
"We all know that every pregnancy is different and much control we have to let go to nature and listen to what our reality is," she continued, explaining that she "got pregnant with Carmen at 28 and I'm 38 to have this baby girl. Age and wear and tear of so many pregnancies and babies are things I def feel 🥴."
Hilaria then discussed the video she shared with her followers on Thursday, saying that it was from "a few years ago."
"I was looking at old photos of the babes and I found this video from a few years ago," she continued. "These are exercises I do now and will be some of the first I go back to after I give birth. Lots of pelvic floor concentration here with squats. Obvs no heels…you guys know me: always moving around with whatever I am wearing 😂."
Hilaria added that she is "respecting the slowing down process and then the slow rev up again after baby. The expansion and contraction of the body. How grateful I am to have these experiences in my life's story."
Although she limited comments on the post, she didn't limit comments on her ultrasound snap that she posted earlier in the week, revealing a very "Baldwinito" looking baby!
Hilaria Baldwin Shares Ultrasound Images Of Her Latest 'Baldwinito'
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On Tuesday morning, Hilaria shared a snap of the ultrasound with her Instagram followers. In the caption, she wrote, "Unsurprisingly, Alec and I are making a very Baldwinito looking baby…yet again 🤣💕. There she is!!!"
One follower wrote "Congratulations!!!!" with three red heart emojis.
"She looks like Leo to me in this pic!" another follower wrote.
"She is already perfect!" another fan wrote with a heart-eye emoji. "So happy for you both."
"You do make beautiful babies together," another fan commented.
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Three weeks ago, Hilaria posted another ultrasound photo of her developing baby. "Newest Baldwinita says 'hi'," she wrote in the caption as fans showered the post with red heart emojis.
"Omg! Hi sweetheart," one follower commented. "Precious baby girl."
"Awe, can't wait to see that sweet baby girl," another wrote.
"She looks like she's already casting a magic spell," another fan commented alongside a laughing face emoji.
"Wow, I see the resemblance already," said another fan.
"Can't wait to meet her!" another follower shared as fans showered the post with messages of "Congratulations!"
Alec Baldwin Is Spending Some Quality Time With His Kids At The Beach!
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On Tuesday, the "Beetlejuice" actor also shared an adorable snap of three of his children lying in the sand. "A trip to Crabby Town…" he captioned the post.
"I love watching you with your family," one fan commented.
"Summer fan," another follower wrote.
"A beautiful day for it," said a third fan. "Blessed."
"They look like they need ice cream," another fan joked.
"So much fun!" another fan wrote. "Remember being this age and loving the beach?"
"Wow! They're getting so big!!!" another fan remarked.
Fans can't wait for any more good news that the couple is willing to share!


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