Conscious Breathing It’s Monday morning. Perhaps you took some time out on Sunday to prepare and get yourself ready for the week, but you didn’t anticipate your child waking up, or your dog getting sick, or the beeping of the low battery smoke alarm. It’s Monday morning, and although you planned to have an easy start, life seems to be flooding and taking over. Perhaps you … [Read more...]
Get Traction: Enter the Danger
Great executive leadership teams are built on a foundation of vulnerability-based trust. They check their egos and politics at the door when they meet to discuss company issues. Because they individually have a mindset to fight for the greater good, collectively they hold each other accountable and call each other out when necessary. Sure, discussions can get heated, tempers … [Read more...]
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Have You Been, Unconsciously, Postponing Your Happiness? During a seminar in Mexico, I was speaking about setting goals and a young woman named Ericka stood up and said, "What I desire the most in my life is to get my doctorate degree." I asked her, "What will that give you?" She replied, "Happiness." Then I asked, "How long will that take?” She answered, "Eighteen more … [Read more...]
Creator Mindset: On Tolerance
I’ve had two interesting experiences at the drive-thru this last week, on complete opposite ends of the spectrum. For my first experience, I was at a drive-thru waiting in a line of cars to order a salad. There were a few folks in front of me, but it wasn’t too long of a line. But, before I could take my foot off the brake and move up to the order window, someone who was not in … [Read more...]
Get Traction: 136 Issues
In business, we’re constantly bombarded with issues: company issues, department issues, and people issues. When you think about it, on average, we’re probably dealing with 136 issues every single day. In order to handle them quickly, most leaders and managers pick the easiest ones to do first, while ignoring the more complex or tougher ones. These leaders end up spending … [Read more...]