Everybody is talking about Marie Kondo these days. Kondo, who sprang out of nowhere but now is everywhere, is the newly crowned queen of tidying up. Her advice includes getting rid of everything in your home that doesn’t “spark joy.”…
Be here NOW – smell those roses!
“Stop and smell the roses.” That’s advice we’ve heard all our lives. It’s so familiar, in fact, that we may have dismissed it or joked about it on those rare occasions when we actually took a few sniffs. But you…
Your first step is the most important one – take it right now!
As the blues song tells us, “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” The lyrics say something we know is true but don’t always admit: Getting someplace great requires a lot of work (and maybe even…
Successful Partnering Is Always a Win-Win
I’ve long admired Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Effective People – particularly his habit of “thinking win-win,” which means, simply, creating relationships in which everyone benefits. For more than 30 years, BD+C’s success and growth has been sustained by that…