“There’s plenty of evidence impatience causes us to spend inordinate amounts of time and energy repairing, re-working and re-doing what we did when we were impatient,” Peter Vajda writes. “Sadly, we live in a culture of ‘hurry up’. We act as if delay spells d-e-a-t-h. Why not try the alternative?”

“Whenever we give in to anger, we misuse our ‘fire energy’ to ignite anger in place of courageous action,” writes Peter Vajda. “In place of strength and power, we are caught up in fear and bitterness. All that energy goes within, until we burn out.”

The creative renewal of systems and processes is essential to any organization, just as innovation of products and services is the way to create a new, and hopefully better, future. But creativity has a down side too. Creativity and consistency are equally essential. Flipping from one to the other can only create doubt and uncertainty.

Somewhere in our past, saying “no” has become ‘not the thing to do’, writes Karen Senteio. What most folks are missing is their boundaries—their ‘line in the sand’. But over-committing is not a core competency. It’s an aggressive oppressor that needs managing.

Peter Vajda takes a long, hard look at envy and the negative effects it has on people’s lives; then suggests antidotes to help you let go of the dead weight envy lays on your future potential.

Recent events have focused us all on the problems of greed and the obsession with grabbing and getting. But what about all the aspects of life we don’t like? Many people are just as obsessed with trying to control everything to avoid what they fear. Aversion can be as destructive of happiness as any greed.

Making ideas into life, career or business goals, purely because you can envisage them in your mind, is likely going to set you up to fail.

Many people feel so uneasy if they’re not busy that they fill their time with ‘make work’ and things they would be far better off NOT doing. Even more want to fill every silence with chatter and sound. Yet silence and empty space are wonderful and necessary gifts. There’s no need to fill them with anything.

What kind of mark are you leaving behind you as you push ahead? If you’re acting like a typical macho manager, intent on short-term profits and quick returns for shareholders, you’ll likely be thrusting your way through your environment using a combination of high velocity, fierce determination and brute force. What kind of wake will that leave behind you?

When your attachment to anything, however benign in itself, becomes too powerful, it increases the chance that a corresponding fear will corrode your life and destroy your relationships from within. Understanding this can help you stay balanced and avoid destroying your chances of getting the very things you value most.