Education

​By Jim Lombardo, CPCU, AAI, AIM, MBA, AVP of Learning & Development  Someone called me an intelligent thinker the other day. I had to look that up to see what it meant.  LOL!  Here is what I found at neuronation.com (and what I normally try to do). 1.   Learn from your mistakesEverything we do is a matter of trial and error. A baby cannot learn to walk without falling down first, and we cannot do better at work if we don't know what to improve. 2.   Re-evaluate your viewsThe greatest minds of all time have re-evaluated their initial theories. When we think of intelligent, famous people, scientists usually come…

​​By Jim Lombardo, CPCU, AAI, AIM, MBA, AVP of Learning & Development​​As Mark Twain once said, “If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."The frog is that one thing you have on your to-do list that you have absolutely no motivation to do and you're most likely to procrastinate on. Eating the frog means to just do it.  Otherwise, the frog will eat you, and you'll end up procrastinating it the whole day.Once that one task is done, the…

​By Jim Lombardo, CPCU, AAI, AIM, MBA, AVP of Learning & Development​​ “We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." – Ronald Reagan I rarely go through the drive through at my local coffee shop.  I am either too cheap, running too late or just plain impatient.  However, I decided to get a small coffee to go the other morning and was pleasantly surprised when I went up to the window to learn that someone had already paid for my coffee.  I immediately thought to myself, “shoot I should have ordered a large!!“ Just kidding.  I said to myself, “wow that was really nice!!" I share…