The (Not So) Secret Ingredient to Thriving Relationships
Excellent leadership. Flourishing families. Enviable marriages. Thriving organizations. Effective teams. They all have one factor in common: healthy relationships. We ache when we have bad ones. We celebrate when we have good ones. So how do we keep them healthy? The (not so) secret ingredient to any relationship in your life is: time. To destroy […]
How to Capture Life-Changing Principles
A lot of people read with a pen or highlighter in hand. We eagerly mark what touches us. We finish the book and have a sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately, we typically recall a negligible fraction of what we read or mark. We forget the rest, even those ideas or thoughts that gave us an ah-ha […]
A List of My Current Mentors
In the last blog post, I discussed seven principles to apply when establishing a relationship with a mentor. To bring this to a practical dimension, I want to share with you in this article who my current mentors are. I will not mention specific names to respect their privacy, but I will let you know […]
Do You Really Need Mentors?
One of the best ways to grow is to be mentored by someone who has traveled further than you in a particular area of life. ?Until five years ago, I had never had a?mentor. No one had shared with me the value of having them or how to go about managing those relationships. I had […]
How Daring Have You Been?
At the end of June of this year, during my 2014 mid-year self-review, I uncovered something interesting. I had listed every activity, decision, or notable occurrence that had happened in the last six months. I listed people I met with, mentors I talked to, trips I took, and activities at work, among others. There were […]
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 […]
The Biggest Mistake I Made in Personal Growth
For many years now, I have made reading a personal priority and placed myself in a position to maximize my learning and growth. Where I went wrong was equating exposure with growth, and that was the biggest mistake or misconception I had about growth. In this article, I want to share with you the three […]
4 Options When Making a Difficult Decision
Life presents us with options sometimes, none of which we like. Yet, we must decide. We have all been there. Whether in leadership or in life, it is helpful to have a method of thinking things through when we are faced with difficult decisions. Though our tendency is not to decide when we are confused, we […]
Aim to Have Disciplines, Not to Be Disciplined
Most of us usually cringe at the idea of being disciplined. We have images of that Cr?me Brulee that we really, really want. But we know we really, really shouldn?t. Despite the mounting guilt, we order it and eat it anyway. And we tell ourselves, ?I wish I were more disciplined.? There is a better […]
Emotions: Master Them, Or They Will Master You
We must master our emotions if we are to succeed as leaders. Otherwise we make the wrong decisions, we hurt key relationships, and we appear childish and temperamental?all qualities that quickly erode the trust of others in us and will invariably lead us to disaster. Let’s have a conversation about emotions today. I’ll share with […]