The 5% day

When a choice is made to live in regret, the world never seems fair.   2020 has given us plenty of opportunity for regret.  Raw and emotional decisions on safety, health, and welfare affected every business and are common conne ctions to us all that for what seems certain, no one got it all right (and maybe no one can).  Some business es stayed open, some closed.  Some leaders chose furlough, some fired.  Plastic makers shifted to make retail shields, underwear makers turned upside down made gaiters and m asks. Everyone is making hard decisions. Decisions we later learn were right, some w rong, learning moments of personal and professional growth.    When we choose to accept regret, conversations with others start with “wou ld of, could of, and should of” give us easy reason to bitch and complain, stealing energy that could be planning for our best day, our best leader.     The choice to say “I was wrong, move on”, cost nothing and frees your...

In The Trench or on The Bench? Robert Babb Apr 25 What’s your choice? A filled with a fear eight-year-old kid was playing baseball, his father begging the kid to swing the bat. Other kids would mock him and call him “Statue of Liberty” because the kid was too fearful of swinging at a pitch. One day the kid’s unsympathetic coach came over to at the plate and said, “This may be your lucky day, if you get hit by a pitch, you will get a chance to see what it’s like to be on first base.” While the kid’s teammates jumped at the opportunity to get to the plate and swing for the fences, all this kid wanted to do was sit on the bench. With his deer in the headlight look, fear paralyzed his body at the plate. Lately, we have seen something similar around us at work, home, and through the press. We are in a time or fight or flight, of getting into battle or taking a seat. Fear creates a time for us to stay (or jump) in the trenches, or a moment ...