What you do goes to support what you want or what you don’t want to be? Often others will put all of their focus in to things that don’t serve them. Instead of living into a dream, the person ends up using all of their time, talent and treasure living into what they don’t want […]
Do you find it easy to get sidetracked at work or the scope of a project starts to expand? You might then wonder where the day has gone. It has been said where your focus goes, your energy goes. Your success is directly tied to what you do. Are you working on what is meaningful […]
In getting to know people new to you, you seek as much information about them as you can get in that first opportunity. People desire to get comfortable with others and build a connection. People getting to success faster than others work on building trust faster than others. What are you doing today to build […]
The song goes: “When you’re down and troubled, and nothing is going right…” Are you seeing someone down and needing a friend? Maybe you don’t really know if they are. Be kind. Today, we are living full throttle. We past people like highway road markers seemingly connected one to the next. Taking a moment to […]
Each day we are faced with choices on whether to display vulnerability without apology, to be a model of humanness. One element as a leader is to recognize the imperfectness of your nature. It isn’t an easy thing to do given the expectations you place on yourself to be some perfect person. In this struggle […]
Have you said to yourself or someone else, “I need to get this perfect before _“? It might have been a test, a project, a painting, dinner. Maybe a presentation or speech. What happens? You put an expectation onto yourself that nothing less than something with zero error will do. There becomes a confusion between […]
Sometimes in my life, I found myself looking in at my life. I was looking toward my boss to show me my calendar for the day. It didn’t stop there. I had family and friends do it too. I was reserved. I then had to work hard to show my eagerness to please, to show […]
Do you hide the scars of your past experiences from others? I was taught early on that you bury the pain, humiliation and other impacts from your conflicts and experiences that end in failure. I was taught to put on a confident face, a mask that covers up the inner turmoil in public and even […]
One of the things I found early on in my business life was I tried to get to the goal. The completion of the goal was all that mattered. I was told “you get paid on completions.” This was reinforced in the jobs I held. Later I sought jobs that led to rewarding journeys. My […]
Whether it is your personal life or your business life leading an organization, there are fundamentals fueling growth and development. Where are you expressing hope today? When a person plants a seed into the ground, there is hope expressed by that person that it germinates and breaks through the ground level into its anticipated form. […]
