From the Desk of Keith Hafner When Things Don't Seem Right This usually occurs when I become too focused on MY situation, MY goals, MY issues. Shift my focus to the goals, issues of [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner What's Your Reserve? Kindness. Good feeling toward others. Generosity of spirit. Your "big" self has plenty in reserve. Enough, not only for ourselves…but also enough to accommodate the [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner What is Better Than Teaching? Learning, of course. Don't scoff. Lots of teaching goes on with very little learning taking place. And, every day, people learn -- without [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner What I Told My Sons Jason and Ian were just little guys. Two and three years old. One thing I taught them: "You can do hard things." I [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner We Always Have a Choice. We always have a choice, don't we? To be our BIG self…the one that is gracious and generous. Or, the SMALL self. The [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner Want to Get Along Better with People? Easy. Burn down your ‘dog house.’ Don't dismantle it, board by board. Burn it down. And -- just so we're absolutely [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner How to Lead. Two ways to lead: authority and influence. Each has its place. Need to get some people out of a burning building? Jump up and down, [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner A Student of Excellence I'm not much of a sports fan anymore. And yet, I have always watched athletes like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky whenever [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner A Simple Way to Avoid Trouble Many of the difficulties people find themselves in are the result of NEGLECT. You neglect to take proper care of your car [...]
From the Desk of Keith Hafner I'm Telling You a Secret. Earlier, I said ‘Get the inside of your car clean, really clean, and keep it that way.’ I said to try it…and that [...]