“Often we are OK with impartial feedback, but the real challenge for me in my marriage was learning to be OK with—and respond positively to—feedback from my wife.”
React or Respond? A Question for Grown-ups
Vaughan Granier believes adults need to learn to break the habit of an emotional reaction, and turn it into an emotional response. A considered one.
Emotional Consistency – A Safe Place for the Little Ones
Every day I ask myself what I have done to build consistency and security in my home?
The Exquisite Beauty of Innocence
Vaughan Granier knows there is a time and a place for learning new things that introduce more adult views and understandings to young children. But there is no day or place on earth where he wants that to be decided for his children by someone other than their parents.
Change Management from a Two Wheeled Perspective
Successful change happens at an optimum speed—and it’s not the speed of the fastest moving part. The right speed is different for each organisation.
8 Simple Ways to Reduce Stress
Stress complicates stuff and tears our attention away from the truly important, to the things we have allowed to become problematic.
True Equality
Vaughan Granier thinks the marriages that are happiest for both spouses give some serious thought to equality and control.
Today I am Tired but I am Still a Husband and a Father
Even after a long business trip Vaughan Granier knows that his family needs him to be present in the moment.
Accountability: It’s About Commnity
Vaughan Granier explains the upsides of accountability, both at work and in your personal life.
Intent vs. Action: We Are Nothing But What We Do
Vaughan Granier points out that we see everything through the lens of what we were trying to do, and not through the lens of what we actually did.
What Makes for a Deep Trust?
Vaughan Granier believes that there is beauty in the “synergy between two seemingly opposing concepts,” and a good leader is comfortable with these tensions and adept at exploring them.
Humility: A Rare Gift
Vaughan Granier reminds us that humility is a deep heartfelt gratitude for what one has, free of dominion and free of greed.
Cultivating Joy Every Day
Vaughan Granier believes that joy is a place where we can reside emotionally, as opposed to an emotion we can have for a brief period of time.
20 Things I Have Learned From Marriage So Far
From the need to get enough sleep to recognizing his own insecurities, Vaughan Granier shares 20 lessons he has learned from his marriage so far.
Be Kind to Each Other
Kindness is not condescension. It is not compromise. It is not pandering, and it is not fear … It is a strong, gentle response that lay aside the need to be right, in favor of the choice to remain one with the person we chose to be one with.
From a Husband to a Wife…Thank You.
It’s crazy that some things take so long to be discovered…