Dealing with Incoming Requests Assuming you identify your core focus areas and want to spend time on them, you need to keep the rest of the world in line while you do so. There are plenty of organizational systems out…
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KNE Life Skills: Prioritization & Productivity – Mangaing Your Time Part 2 – Multiple Focuses
Multiple Focuses: How to sort what you've got on your plate at the moment Most of us will find the ONE Thing approach (discussed in the previous newsletter) a little too intense, as we have a number of things on…
KNE Life Skills: Prioritization & Productivity – Managing Your Time Part 1
Rich or poor, young or old, there is one thing that all people have in common each and every day. Time (1,440 minutes to be exact). Time is the great equalizer. If you want to make a difference at work…
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A Human’s Owner’s Manual – Part 1
Why do human beings do what they do? There are entire fields of study dedicated to answering this age old question. Most of what drives the world is a net result of individual actions people have taken. Understanding why people do…
KNE Life Skills: It’s an Unpredictable World
In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal defines the difference between complicated environments and complex ones. Complicated environments have many different moving parts, but are ultimately deterministic - in other words, predictable. If you put in the same…
Reality – It’s Not Quite What You Think
When trying to get a better handle on reality, we have to admit that we can't actually prove we aren't in a Matrix-like simulation. But let's ignore that for now by assuming that the input we get from our senses…
Why “Wanting” Isn’t Enough
When you "want" something, you are looking for a specific outcome that is somehow different than what you have today. That may seem simple, but it is hard to do well. If you look at New Year's resolutions, people often…
Introducing the KNE Life Skills Page
Here at Kids Need Enrichment, our mission is to expose, engage and ultimately challenge kids in the amazing, fun and powerful world of STEM. Through our events and activities, we have seen a need to also provide kids help on…
