by Michael Devers | Apr 15, 2020 | Crisis Prevention, Right Thought
“If you need help, you have to ask for it. Help is very rarely spontaneously volunteered, but it is often enthusiastically given, once it is asked for.” This was a thought I posted on Twitter a little more than a year ago. It was inspired by a conversation...
by Michael Devers | Apr 11, 2019 | Review, Right Thought
When you come in out of the rain, you don’t stay inside forever. You check to see if conditions have changed and when it stops raining, you go outside again. Far too often we don’t do the same in business. We make a business decision based on conditions and then don’t...
by Michael Devers | Oct 18, 2018 | Right Thought
While scrolling through my Facebook feed recently, I saw this post: I fail to see how anyone in their right mind would consider voting for [insert name here]. It’s beyond me. Unfortunately, that’s exactly the problem. And it applies to both sides. (Here is where some...
by Michael Devers | Oct 1, 2018 | Right Thought
The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.~ Steven Pressfield, the War of Art Because I recognize the truth in this, I know what I must do. I must work 2x, 3x, 10x as hard as I have before. To stack the deck in my favor. To overcome the...
by Michael Devers | Sep 25, 2018 | Right Thought
As a creature of habit, my morning routine establishes the course of my day. I wake up while everyone else is still asleep, so I have the house to myself. I make a cup of coffee, cook a bit of bacon, and then sit at the kitchen table to read from a book for...
by Michael Devers | Sep 14, 2018 | Right Thought, Strategy
Comedian Bill Hicks was one-part comedian and one-part philosopher. His shows were not the one-joke-every-12-seconds rapid-fire pace that so many of today’s audiences are familiar with. He mixed his philosophy in with the punch lines. Here’s one bit that has...
