Category: Practices
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Lord, please work on my face!
Lord, I need you to work on my face. For those of you who have seen me you might be thinking, Ralf, no amount of guy products is going to provide the much needed improvement. Ok I get it when it comes to the looks department I didn’t inherit that gene. In fact, earlier…
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How’s your standard of living?
As I write this post, in the past ten trading days the U.S. stock market has stumbled and tumbled; we wonder what the impact of tariffs will be, and the interest alone on our national debt which is at 36 trillion dollars and rising now exceeds annual defense spending. Articles I have perused by various…
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Wait!
Wait. Admit it we bristle at and resist that word, don’t we? Waiting in line, waiting in traffic, waiting for anything. Why is the barista taking so long to get my six-dollar white chocolate mocha latte made? Thursday afternoon I was boarding my flight home after a week-long trip. I was tired and ready to…
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I am sooo sorry!
Let me cut right to the chase. I would like to express my deepest apology to those who subscribe to The Rest Stop. Over the past 24 hours or so you received 13+ email notifications for new blog posts. Please allow me to explain. I consider myself a decent communicator and remain passionate about sharing my…
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Bulldozer or Bulldog?
We are created for relationship. First, we are created to have a relationship with God. Secondly, we are created and designed to have relationship with one another. We are meant to live in community. When it comes to relationships are you a bulldozer or a bulldog? When relationships are going well and things go smoothly,…
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You’re Muted!
Nod your head if you have participated in Zoom meetings where a co-worker starts to speak and forgets to unmute their microphone and in unison multiple participants respond, “You’re Muted!” A sheepish, “oops sorry” is often the response. It’s a common courtesy to mute your mic when not talking. It cuts down on background or…
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Safe Trust
Last week I posted on the topic of trust. Today I want to focus on an aspect of trust that is essential for building and keeping it – safety. The word safe may not come to mind or rise to the top of your list when you define or describe trust, however, it is a key…
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Every hour has a name.
This past week three different colleagues at work approached me and said,” I’m trying to schedule a meeting with you on Outlook and every hour of every workday, Monday through Friday shows you as busy for the next year! Really? Does that mean I can’t schedule time with you for the next year? No, that’s…
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Resisting Remote Work?
Do you resist or reject remote work? Are you a leader or supervisor who insists on having all staff in the office, adhering to strict inflexible office hours every day? Requiring butts in the seat so you can keep an eye on them? Why? Do you think your co-workers are inherently lazy? Won’t be as…
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Are you busy?
I’m up to my eyeballs with work. I’ve got too many irons in the fire. I’m trying to stop all these plates from spinning out of control. My plate is full. I’m overloaded. When you hear or read these phrases, do they conjure up in your mind thoughts of peace, calm, a balanced schedule, life,…
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