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Leadership

How To Take Advice

We all love to give advice. Taking advice?well, that’s a different story. It can be difficult to hear about areas in our lives that may not be exemplary. So while we intend to listen, we internally and sometimes vocally resist. We interrupt, defend, or protest. We explain our position and clarify our perception. Eventually the […]

Personal Development

13 Questions to Ask Yourself Mid-Year

It?s mid-year. Time to stop and reflect. I encourage you to block out a few hours for your mid-year reflection. You?ll need to: [unordered_list style=’circle’ number_type=’circle_number’ animate=’no’ font_weight=’regular’] Seclude yourself. Turn your phone off. Take your journal or something to write on. Reassess. [/unordered_list] Here are some key questions to consider during your evaluation. These […]

Leadership

Don?t Let Your Hurt Poison Your Heart

Absorb your pain and transform it; don’t transmit it. Don’t let your hurt poison your heart.? I recently posted this statement on our?Aspire Facebook page, and one person commented, ?How do you do that?? Good question. Most people in prison come from broken homes with pasts full of misery. We see this often. The abused […]

Leadership

Love and Boundaries

Love. Caring about a person?s well-being irrespective of what they can give back to you and regardless of what they may do to you. When practiced, love is powerful. But it is not practical unless it is guided by boundaries. Love and boundaries need to be independently alive and healthy. Love without boundaries leads to […]

Leadership

How Well Do You Know Your People?

Effectual leaders know their people. They are intentional about getting to know them on a deep level?beyond professional formalities and more toward a personal, authentic relationship. They not only get to know their people, they also allow their people to get to know them. While some leaders do not even attempt to get to know […]

Leadership

Are You a Moody Leader?

We don?t have the luxury as leaders to be overtaken by our emotions, to surrender to our feelings, or to let our moods dictate our thoughts and color our actions. People depend on us to be steady, to be of sound mind, to be calm and collected, to be reliable. Erratic leaders are poor leaders. […]

Purpose

Three Beautiful Words That Can Change Your Life

There are a few words that I absolutely cherish. Like a pearl oyster, these words contain a gem. They contain beauty and healing. Great leadership is born of the heart. ?And these three words are all heart. Magnanimity. Grace. Love.? At their core, these words paint a soothing portrait for the soul. I challenge you, […]

Leadership

One Thing You Must Do During Crisis Or Change

We know that problems in leadership are more likely to occur during turbulent times of crisis or change. Allow me to share with you a simple secret to preventing issues?that?demoralize your people and cause drama or trauma during these tumultuous times: stay close. I like to practice preventative leadership. I want to predict problems and […]

Productivity

How To Organize Your Life

As leaders, we are inundated with?appointments, to-do lists, notes to take, deadlines to meet, emergencies that come up, clients to see, and meetings to conduct. If you do not?have systems in place by which to organize yourself, you will quickly become scattered and disorderly. I want to share with you a simple system which helps […]

Productivity

How I Learned to Get Over Myself and Just Delegate

[blockquote text=’This is a guest post written by Andria Bicknell. Andria is a contributing writer and editor for Aspire. She writes about recovering from the effects of perfectionism on her own blog,?Type A Plans B. Andria draws her leadership experience from ministry, business and home. – Wes Saade, M.D.’ text_color=’#ffffff’ width=’95’ line_height=’undefined’ background_color=’#aaaaaa’ border_color=’#dba400′ show_quote_icon=’no’ […]