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Leadership

Listen with Your Heart, Not Your Ears

Listening well is not the ability to focus on what is being said. Listening well is a reflection of our maturity as human beings. Only when we mature our spirits, do we truly hear. And that begins when you listen with your heart, not your ears. Listening is an issue of the heart. In my […]

Purpose

The Cry of an Orphan

Paaaaaaaaaaapi! A little girl screamed as I walked into an orphanage in Guatemala recently. Several of us adults heard the cry from around the corner and froze. We knew there was no papi around. A child yearning for the loving arms of her parent, but there is no parent to be found. What could be […]

Purpose

The Danger of Becoming Too Focused

[blockquote text=’This is a guest post by Stephanie LeBlanc. Stephanie is the practice administrator at TotalCare Hulen in Fort Worth, Texas. She also holds other leadership positions including president of her accounting firm, as well as Project Connect Texas, a non-profit organization she founded to serve the Dallas/Fort Worth community. – Wes Saade, M.D.’ text_color=’#ffffff’ […]

Personal Development

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 […]

Purpose

The Life Plan of Tommy Adkins

On August 3rd, 2014, ?a remarkable man passed on. He was 95 years old, and his name was Thomas (Tommy) Spencer Adkins. World War II Veteran, missionary, and church leader, Tommy and his wife, Ellen, lived a life wholly dedicated to serving others.?In this article, I want to share with you?Tommy’s personal life plan which […]

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 […]

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 […]

Leadership

Be Gentle

Everyone is struggling with something. Be gentle. It?doesn’t?matter how successful, wise, or content we may become, most of us are always struggling with something. It could be big or small. It could be silly or life altering. At any given point, you may find yourself wrestling with a life question, a relationship, or an illness. […]

Leadership

Three Questions You Must Regularly Ask Your People

When I started in leadership the main question I was ever truly interested in knowing from my people was, “What are you doing?” I wanted to know exactly what they were doing. Were they doing what I asked them to do??Were they being productive? Were they wasting time? Now, I ask other questions. “What are […]