Enjoy monthly reads, reflections, and thoughts from our wisdom filled team.
As I look back over time, it seems like there are two types of organizations/teams:
1) Those that have developed a proactive approach to life in all areas. They understand the value of planning, assessing multiple outcomes, risk, place a high value on their health, surround themselves with a circle of influence (people smarter than they are), they are curious and life long learners (they want to be better than yesterday) and they see “opportunities” as opposed to “chaos/problems”.
The beautiful thing about “choice” is that you always have the power to decide how you are going to respond, react, and think. A few years ago, I had a colleague and friend named, Mike, tell me a story of when he went to visit his good friend, Roger and his family for the first time in New Jersey. Mike was a mentor…
If wisdom is “the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight,” does that mean you have to be older to be wiser?
Racing down an old country road with my heart throbbing in my chest; it climbs suddenly as another bead of sweat jumps from my brow onto my Oakleys. This time, leaving a translucent salty trail as it runs down the lens, annoyingly obscuring my vision as I approach the section of the road that has been on my mind for the last three months. I make the turn onto the fated road.-Mindset- "I will ride again."
I was in Las Vegas, Nevada participating in medical currency training with a Las Vegas regional hospital, the city Fire/Rescue system and the contract ambulance service. This was around 1993, every two years our Paramedic, nationally accredited medical certification needed to be re-certified and certain performance and knowledge skills needed to be accomplished to reestablish our abilities endorsement. I am 28 years old, at the peak of my tactical game…
