decisions

Cliche or Good Idea?

Going the Extra Mile

Have you ever had to make a purchase and the ONLY sales person available was grouchy, irritable and obviously not happy to be there? The person acts as if it is an inconvenience for you to be in their establishment, spending your money, supporting their store. This is the epitome of an awful experience, but we have all had it. As small business owners, we know that optimal customer service is key. Anyone can get ANYTHING at  WalMart, but I choose to shop at small family owned stores to support the local economy. Just the other day I went into my local…

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Is Too Much Information Blocking Your Road To Success?

Are You one of those people that attempts to get as much information as possible on a potential opportunity? I do not advocate going into anything blindly. However, there is such thing as information overkill.

Let me pose a scenario for you. Say that one of your goals was to improve your fitness and you wanted to find the best diet plan and gym to use before starting to get fit. How much information do you actually need ? You could spend months researching before you ever begin. That is months you are taking away from your health. The worst case scenario in making a quick somewhat educated chose in this matter is that you don’t like the gym or diet….

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Blink: An excellent book about human judgement

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is one of the best books that I have read in recent months. Malcolm Gladwell does a great job of explaining how our mind is able to break down situations in the blink of an eye. He sites several examples of times where rapid cognition was used effectively and also brings light to real life tragedies that could have been avoided had the individuals involved slowed down and accessed  situations a little more clearly. One of the points that I also found really interesting is how an overload of information can keep us from making the best possible decisions.   It…

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Predictably Irrational

Recently I finished a book by Dan Arielly entitled Predictably Irrational I really liked this book and how it gets you to look at the “big picture” of the human psychosis. The author and his collegues go through many experiments that show how naturally irrational our behavior as humans can be. This irrationality seems to encompass all areas of our lives from relationships to finances. My reason for suggesting  this book is sort of similar to how people deal with addictions. You first much admit you have a problem or in this case just become…

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