You Always Have a Choice
My 7 year old has a field trip today. My wife usually chaperones them but had a previous commitment so she couldn’t go. This morning my son, Owen, aske if I could go instead. He asked “daddy, do you have the police paper that says you can go on my trip” I replied, “no, I didn’t go to the police station to get it. I know you’re disappointed and I’m sorry.” So he asked mom again, even though he already knew she wasn’t coming. Kids are great...
Read MoreHow to Recover from a Screw-up
Virginia Satir coined the phrase “The problem isn’t the problem, coping with the problem is the problem”. Today I messed up. About a month-and-a-bit ago my wife hosted a charity Zumba event and donated all the proceeds. Yes, she’s awesome. Well, we put the money in her account and sent them a cheque. A couple of weeks later I paid a bill using my wife’s account without thinking about the impending cheque clearance and sure enough, the cheque bounced. As soon as...
Read MoreAYE Workshop Wrap-up
The last day at AYE was a full-day workshop on knowing your options when attacking problems. This session was particularly interesting as all the hosts, sans Jerry, facilitated. The goal of the session was to give participants the ability to figure out what approach to problem solving might work best in their situations. In this workshop there were 4 main approaches: Solve, Manage, Cope, Exit. We were asked to envision a work-related problem and then choose which particular approach we...
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