progettaconsulting.com

I wrote a frustrated note today to our neighbor. It said something like “Please take responsibility for your dog. It was in our yard today.  It tore the pond liner. When I try to take it back home it BITES me. Please send me your contact information. If you don’t come get your dog within [...]

Countless times in life I’ve found myself apologizing for something. Fairly regularly I find myself apologizing for not doing something or another. You know that feeling that you have when you let someone else down? I know I sure hate that feeling. I’ve found so many times that we end up not caring until it’s [...]

Here are a few things that I try to live by that I haven’t put into words until now. These aren’t easy to follow. Never, ever, ever Do anything that in any way de-values another person. Tell someone that they are stupid. Tell someone that they have a bad idea. Insinuate that another person is [...]

I have this planned event on my calendar on Sunday nights. It’s called “week prep” and I try to do it every week. I make sure I’m not behind on emails, see what the week’s going to look like. The problem with this “week prep” is that I get latched onto something in order to [...]

You’ve gotten these emails. You read it, stare at the screen and think, “What do you want from me?” You pick up the phone or walk over to the person’s desk and say, “What are you asking?” You read the email and can’t figure out just what they are wanting you to do.  You may [...]

This week there’s been a common theme that has come up that has intrigued me. It’s the difference between communicating “done” and “draft”. When work is sent to me on a project that I’m responsible for, I have completely different feedback if I think you’re “done” vs it’s a “draft” you’re showing me. You come [...]

It’s a girl! At least the doctor *thinks* it’s a girl. As the doctor was moving the little thing around and our skeleton, I mean baby, was being shown on the black and white screen…. I was thinking one word. Pink. We’re going to have a pink room! Am I disappointed that we’re having a [...]

You’ve read the story about The Boy Who Cried Wolf, right? Could this be you? I think this story tells us a lot about what we do to get attention. I’ve seen so many people create a crisis just so they are heard. You can avoid crisis in your life, so you don’t cry wolf. [...]

[poll id="2"]

Creativity is something that you do on a daily basis. It doesn’t matter what you do. There is creativity involved in anything that you do. When I was doing interviews of designers there was a question that we asked everyone. “How do you create when you don’t feel inspiration?” There’s a few things I’ll do. [...]

I’m going to be a father. This is the last father’s day of my life that I won’t be a dad. I was musing today about this. About being a father in a few months. It’s still something that doesn’t seem very real to me. I know in my head that I’m going to be [...]

If you didn’t use it in 6 months…. throw/give it away.  How much stuff do we hold onto because we just might need it someday?  A few weeks ago a friend said something that struck me. He said that stuff can take life away from you. This comment really made me start thinking about the [...]

Bring on the comments. Really. Bring them on. I want to see what you have. He’s going to be made fun of. Check, heard that. Actually about 500 variations of all of the ways that Charlemagne is going to be made fun of because of his name. Really? My friends are telling me this. Hmmm. [...]

There aren’t many professions where the consumers of the product isn’t fun for someone else. What I’ve come up with so far is that a mortician’s job isn’t fun for anyone else. There’s also the medical profession. Often the work of doctor’s isn’t fun for the patients or families. On the other hand; most jobs [...]

Site under construction….. what does that mean to you? I know what it means to me. Someone had the great idea to do something and they’ll probably never finish. Or coming soon….. when exactly is soon? I know that I sure don’t believe it when “coming soon” is posted most of the time. Sometimes it [...]

Lunch was a a new restaurant in town, and the “Action News” was there… DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"12612",bannerAdConDefID:"22",videoAdObjectID:"21",videoAdConDefID:"9",playVideoAds:"true",categoryID:"3",accPos:"CCTVI.NEWS.LOCAL",accSite:"KHSL",playerInstanceID:"27574A89-06D1-CD92-4444-22719C5099EC",domain:"khsl.web.entriq.net"}); You can read more about the restaurant here.

You’ve seen the stigma that reporters tend to have. They are always looking, digging.. for that story. It’s rather annoying when you are trying to live your life and reporters come “knocking”. You feel like they are trying to work some kind of angle in what they are doing. While this may be true; they [...]

When you’re tasked to accomplish something important at work; the task that you have been given will usually involve someone out of your department. Tasks will often involve people who you have no authority over which means they don’t need to help you if they don’t want to.  In order to be successful it’s important [...]

I was on a flight to Texas when I saw a book. I wasn’t sure at first that I was seeing the title right. When I did it; I felt a little awkward. What is that lady reading? Why does she need to learn how to get naked? I looked away, thinking she may be [...]

We’ve been watching American Idol this season – every year people go onto the show, think they are an amazing singer, then they sing. If I was go to onto American Idol and get laughed at, I’d be fine. I know that I’m not a singer. I have no aspiration to be an amazing star.Every [...]