8/2/2025
My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,
Do you have a personal improvement plan (PIP)? According to PositivePsychology.com, coaches can choose from 7 theories to help clients develop a PIP. I am drawn to Seligeman’s PERMA model which includes Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning & Accomplishment. Writing up a PIP might give me a good answer to the question, “what are you doing in retirement?”
I am suggesting you develop a PIP because I worry that you have become stuck in your ways & need to get more creative. I am particularly perturbed that you continue to hold on to the idea that firing people is the key to good management as is evident in your recent choice to terminate Erika McEntarfer from her job as the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, because you didn’t like the updated jobs stats that she just reported.
Sacking employees is so 2004! Nowadays we recognize that no one is perfect & when we don’t like their job performance we work with them to improve. Treating people as if they are disposable sends a bad message. Better to identify shortcomings & then invite the employee to develop a PIP.
OoM, an article in today’s AJ AJ Myanmar’s lawless mining blamed for dangerous pollution in Mekong River further supports my cautions to you about the rare earth minerals being mined in Shan State. As a reminder, the unregulated miners are releasing arsenic, lead, nickel & manganese into waterways which affects the downstream ecosystems. According to AJ, “the Mekong River basin once supported about 60 million people & provided up to 25 percent of the world’s freshwater fish catch.” The fishermen in Laos now have empty nets on most days. We don’t need another famine!
If you choose to get involved in rare earth mining in Shan State, you will have lots to do to ensure the health of the environment. Best to proceed with caution.
Many think that peace on earth begins within so let’s include something about seeking internal serenity in our PIPs.
BYBS,
