Musings at Altitude

Do you customize everything that’s yours? Your car? Your office? Your float plane dock (I don’t have one but saw this one today at Lake Hood in Anchorage)? Many people go to extraordinary efforts to make anything that’s their’s something very special. It then becomes a place to be proud of, a place to be […]

I have very vivid memories of specific times in my life where I either intentionally or was forced to reset, rethink what I was doing, reestablish my confidence, and accelerate on a new path with a new plan.  Each of those memories brings a smile, because each reset led to something new, to something fun, […]

I spent about 70 hours working this week, and now I’m going back and figuring out the breakdown of that time into people, places and things. Here’s the definitions I’m using: People – time spent working issues related to motivating, nurturing, supporting, disciplining, so basically leading people Places – Time spent going somewhere to learn […]

I brought donuts into the office this week, because for some reason, donuts create smiles.  But the smiles started long before they ever made it to the office, because it was an artistic and logistical masterpiece to pick out 54 donuts, with tender loving care to get some of every kind and package them in a way […]

What would you do differently if you were told that today is a day of discovery and you should seek out those fascinating things about life that you don’t yet know? So here it is! Today is a day of discovery! Seek out. Be intrigued. Find answers. Hover over things. Ponder. Enlighten yourself and others. […]

I turned 50 this past birthday. And all kinds of things started changing in this old body. One of the most important things is shortly after liquid goes in that liquid must go out. So today I decided to focus on drinking a lot more water…for the good of this aging body. And I drank. […]

When is it time to do something different? It’s actually very simple – when your focus follows your passion, and that passion is not on the work at hand Going back to a previous post, if the nirvanic job is one where your incredible passion matches the emerging needs of the organization, then the counter […]

Unfortunately, we’re seeing time and time again the very same scenario playing out: do something wrong deny you did something wrong adamantly deny you did something wrong blame that something done wrong on someone or something else admit it could have been you come completely clean and say “I made a mistake” now let’s get […]

Those moments when all seems right are rare, both in our families and in our businesses.  We cherish them when they come, and we yearn for them when things aren’t just right. We’ve had those moments recently in our family.  Time together.  Time sharing.  Living and learning and enjoying that precious time with each other. […]

Because of all the traveling I do, I’ve been thinking about separation a lot lately. I experience separation in various ways: from my wife and family when I travel from those I work with when I stay home or travel away from them from our Creator when I focus on the things of this earth […]