VantageShift Insights

Overcoming New Task Paralysis How great would it be if all of life's challenges came with a roadmap or task list for meeting them? You...

As I sit in my backyard contemplating the beauty and wonder of a sky filled with colorful storm clouds, I realize that this was a year of...

Whether You Realize It or Not I read an intriguing column about what researchers call "quantification fixation." We make decisions based...

I recently took my first real vacation in over two years. When I say real, I mean going away, not a staycation, to someplace unfamiliar...

Community can mean something different for each of us. For some, it's a place where you belong. For others, it's a feeling of...

Cultivating a Key Value for Growth Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely Ralph Waldo Emerson The Beginning Before I...

Every day, I awaken to my playful pup gently performing her self-appointed alarm clock duties. As I scratch behind her ears and smile at...

The Revelation It's been several years since my refrigerator was new. I had carefully researched my options before making the purchase...

The Tentative Start When our Rottie first came to live with us, she was quite apprehensive about residing in suburbia. We don’t know much...

I've long noted that most people do not look up. Their attention is focused down or forward with an occasional backwards look. They are...

For most of us, decisions involving money are based on affordability and short-term value. If we're hungry, for example, we think about...

If you've spent considerable time and energy on must do's, hunkered down in your little boat of obligations, it's time to take a plunge...

As regular readers of my articles on Medium know, I am the proud dog parent of an adorable Rottie. She's a loving companion, intelligent...

Giving thanks for all the wonderful things we have in our lives The United States observed the Thanksgiving holiday last week and my day...

It's the Way That You Do It I was listening to some perfect-for-Sunday-morning jazz vocals and heard "Tain't What You Do (It's the Way...

Striving for Both I heard a fitness expert talk about how we can become efficient at certain movements even when the movements are not...

Not Just a New Grad Issue I read an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, "New Grads Have No Idea How to Behave in the Office" and...

Expectations If you were raised as I was, it was instilled in you that the best professional lives followed an established pattern. It...

Making the case for getting off the busy-ness wheel The Confession I am a recovering workaholic. There, I said it out loud. My...

The Problem Does this sound familiar? There's a huge mess at work. The cause could be bad process, unforeseen risks becoming issues or...