Personal Development

Healthy Leaders Are Restless Seekers

Five words that will transform anyone?s life:?Seek and you shall find, spoken by Jesus of Nazareth. We understand these words to refer to spiritual truths. But they are true in any area of life in which we need answers. What kind of seeking is required? Restless seeking. Below, I will?to share how a leadership expert?demonstrated […]

Personal Development, Productivity

Are You Thinking of 2016 Yet?

It?s already November. I hope you are beginning to reflect on this year and plan for the one ahead. I want to share the three steps I am taking to close out 2015 and begin 2016. Block Time to Reflect and Plan I recently heard Alan Mulally speak. He is the former CEO of Boeing […]

Personal Development

What Are Your Strengths?

As I look over my life story, through failures, tears, and struggles, I have learned that I have a few strengths that have helped me navigate the mountains and valleys. Over the years, as I have identified these strengths, I am more dedicated to?live in my strengths. Whether or not?you?are already familiar with the topic […]

Personal Development

Three Fundamental Growth Disciplines

This article?is the 300th blog post I’ve written on leadership. What a journey! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your leadership growth and development. I recently had a conversation with a young leader who is earning her degree in management. She is really motivated. But when I asked her about her […]

Personal Development

We Must Stop Getting Upset with Others

Too many?leaders are shackled by this menace: constantly getting upset with others. I’ve been there myself. There was a season of my leadership when?I would stay?angry and upset. I would think, Why are they doing this after?I told them not to? What’s wrong with them? These people are lazy or crazy.? But for me, […]

Leadership, Personal Development

Four Types of Leadership

Leadership is a more than just being a good person and touching people?s lives. And while?we must do those things too, at its core leadership is about taking a group of people great places?like a coach who leads a team of basketball players to victory. What if you don?t have a team, can you still […]

Personal Development

Say It Gently, But Say It

We are all faced with difficult conversations in life. Here’s an extreme case you may remember from the news a few years ago. A young lady was caught hiring an undercover hit man to kill her husband. Her reason? She did not want to tell him in person that she wanted a divorce because she […]

Personal Development

Stop Whining, Start Fighting

Life is a fight. At?times I find myself grumbling or whining. Not usually to anyone else, but to myself. I rarely even realize I am doing it. It is a subconscious hum…?Why am I doing this?? ?Why is this not working?? ?I am so tired and run down.? ?I wish I was just lying on […]

Personal Development

Don’t Debate Anyone Who Is Unable to Lose

I love to debate, and I love watching debates. Yet I seldom see debates which lead to resolutions or positive outcomes. Each side just?digs in their heels and verbally assaults one another. This has become?commonplace because so many people are not?able to lose. For them?losing is?humiliating, so they just don’t allow themselves to lose. Debates […]

Personal Development

My Top 5 Questions for Alignment

In this article, I will share with you the exact questions I use with my inner circle in our biannual?evaluations. This is our time of aligning. In my previous post, I described why I prefer to use a narrative approach (versus a numerical one) to articulate how we?evaluate one another, our relationship, and our […]