Achieving Clarity Podcast

In our instant gratification world, our Resourcefulness muscles can sometimes atrophy, thinking the only solution to our situation is more Resources. In this episode, we look at the superpower that is Resourcefulness, and how to strengthen this muscle in yourself and your organization.

The Sigmoid Curve indicates that everything - organizations, relationships, even organisms - follows a phased existence of Development, Introduction, Growth, Maturity, Plateau, and Decline. In this episode, we look further into what these phases mean and how to capitalize on them in your personal and professional life.

Lots of recent world events have made it easy to ask "Why?" in response. However, in this episode, we look at the benefit of reframing situations by asking "What Now?" first. I also introduce you to my Apogee Clarity Method Masterclass, which uses What Now thinking, to help you emerge stronger and better no matter what happens tomorrow.

In this episode, we look into what living a life on autopilot looks like, how drift can occur in our living, and how to correct it with intentionality.

Taking a checkride is part of being a pilot. In this episode, I discuss how I failed one, and the applicability it has to business and life as we grow and learn.

Situational Awareness (SA) is a valuable life skill that can be developed at any age; we look at the definition and some practical daily examples in this episode.

There can be many seasons in our life where we are in transition, existing in the in-between stage, the season in-between seasons. We may not have any language for it; we may feel we did something wrong or that we are behind our peers. In this episode, we discuss this, the "living in beta", and how to successfully navigate it.

In this episode, we look at the different relationships that should be created and nurtured in your life to generate full-spectrum leadership opportunities.

By training ourselves to compare only with ourselves we can build a hedge of protection around us, retaining our joy in countless endeavors, and avoiding the comparison game with others.

Life is constantly changing - and we should be as well. Understand the growth and opportunities we desire will require us to upgrade ourselves to a new version so we can adapt, grow, and flourish in the new seasons of life. In this episode, we examine the need to change and grow and the resistance we can sometimes face.

In this episode, we examine the joys of adopting more of a "Yes, and..." mentality in life, the value of improvisation, and a framework to consider for enjoying those "spur-of-the-moment" experiences that life can sometimes present us. 

We can often fool ourselves into thinking we are truly learning a subject when in fact we are only achieving short-term mastery. This can help us with the homework sheet or tomorrow's quiz but is not preparing us well for the end of course exam. In this episode, we examine the different styles of learning, and the counterintuitive actions we should take to enhance our long-term, conceptual le...

Within every organization, there are people at different stages in life, different motivations, different desires. It is the leader's responsibility to connect with all of them, validate them, and move the organization forward. In this episode, we will examine three types of these people and how best to work with and inspire them.

We each know what a goal is and how motivated we can be to reach them. However, these are external factors that we can fall prey to receiving our validation. There is an unimaginable amount of abundance that begins to reveal itself when we connect to and stay in the intention to let go of our chasing something external, and allow life to fill us up from the inside. Here is a link to the book I ref...

Each of us has a primary style of relating to others. Some of this may be God-given from birth, but other aspects of it might be a cause of wounding we have suffered combined with a strong desire for self-protection. We discuss three relational styles here and explore the reasons why we relate to others in the manner that we do.

Goals often masquerade as plans; in this episode, we discuss the differences between goals and plans, the superpower of planning...and of course Mike Tyson.

Burnout, be it personally or professionally, can have significant consequences for not only the person involved but also those in their organization and those closest to them outside of the office. Join us as we explore the issue of burnout and what can be done to counteract it.

In order to move to the next level in life, there are certain things we need to stop doing in order to clear the way for our progress and success. We discuss five key things to stop doing now in this episode.

Ego can sometimes be given the controls to our life, to our ship, leading to collisions with icebergs we knew were in our path but ego chose to ignore the warnings. In this episode, we look at the dangers of giving ego the keys to the car, or the ship, or the aircraft, and learning to instead navigate our life from our true, authentic self.

Leadership asking an employee to lead a project outside of their realm of expertise, with little to no experience in the matter, is a lot like asking the plumber to build the house. In this episode, we'll discuss how leaders can better handle tasks and projects that need delegation, ensuring plumbers are not assigned to home construction!

Framing is a psychological behavior of cognitive biases that we do not realize we have, affecting pretty much everything we do and consider and hold an opinion on in our lives. These internal biases can sometimes be viewpoints we have had from an early age. The older we get, the harder it is to realize these biases and therefore generate a desire to change them.  In this episode, we'll discus...

Each of us has familiar tools we use personally and professionally to deal with situations. The trick is knowing when to lay these tools down when faced with an unfamiliar environment, where maintaining a rigid, familiar response could lead to undesirable results. In this episode we discuss scenarios that may require the consideration of using problem solving methods unfamiliar to us, and to resis...

Author Kim Scott speaks about the importance of managers and leaders to engage the heart (care personally) and the mind (challenge directly) with their team members. Building strong relationships should be at the center of a boss’s job to positively impact the culture of the organization. In this episode we will discuss this in more detail, providing strong and poor examples of both, and the impac...

Hedgehogs see the world with a deep but narrow view of thinking - they know "one big thing." Foxes however are integrators, who "know many little things." In this episode, we will look at the differences between the two and examine the real-world results the hedgehogs and foxes achieve.  Which do you see yourself and your team as; more like a hedgehog, or more like a fox?

Goal setting is great, but often we can unintentionally stack the deck against ourselves from achieving these goals by oversharing them with others. Rather than making the declaration at the beginning, consider being a bit more discerning about who you share your goals with - then just start working toward them. Those around you will notice the change in you, then you can tell them about the new d...