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Knowing your “Why” will help to inform your what. The reason why can sometimes be relevant but lack the level of passion and commitment to maintain an engaging level of action and momentum. When we are committed to our "why" it puts us in a better position to conceive and evaluate next steps. Taking time to evaluate our “why” in depth, may enlighten us to pathways forward we had not considered and...

Monday Motivation –  Freedom through Discipline and Intention Freedom can come with discipline and intention. Effective Discipline is focused. Discipline can create opportunity. Intentions allow us to consider more choices through planning ahead. Focused discipline and intention, can make way for realizing greater freedoms and opportunities. #DoYouHaveACoupleOfMInutes #Inspire #Think #Learn #...

What are you focused on - really - what are you focused on?  There is a fallacy that we can multi-task.  The reality is we can have a lot of things going on, but we can focus on only one thing. This is part of the issue with "distracted" driving - where people believe they are focused on driving and doing something else.  The reality is that their attention is divided.  Have yo...

Happy Anniversary – THANK YOU!, Now, what are you going to start? What difference will you make? What impact do you want to make – not he impact that others want you to make, or that others think will resonate with some large group, but the impact you want to have. Helen Keller’s nurse focused on one student. Anne Frank wrote one book. There are many one-hit wonder musical artists. Some people hav...

What next step will you take? Chart your path – OK to make edits Recently I was talking to an insurance broker. One of the questions you are asked, is about your plans.  What are your plans for the future? There’s no right or wrong answer – it’s just information needed to help identify the best tools/offerings that will serve you. How you chart your path is up to you. The other day I was list...

What did you expect to happen? Think before you speak and before you act. A while back I shared that it all boils down to relationships.. Let me go a step further that within those relationships it boils down to communication. For more than 30 years I’ve worked with businesses, and I’ve seen a lot of issues around ineffective communication.  For the most part people mean well, some even spend...

I'm guessing we all have a few people we've admired or looked up to over the years.   Those we admire can serve as great reminders of the good humans are capable of doing when we have a focus on helping those around us be the best they can be, or at least helping them in some way.  When we help others it shifts our focus and helps us to be better humans in that moment.  One of...

This week, we are talking about things that get in our way of success that we can manage and move out of our path toward success and fulfillment. Self-Talk is one of those things. Self-talk, also known as inner dialogue, is the constant stream of thoughts and ideas that runs through our minds. These thoughts can have a significant impact on our mood, behavior, and overall well-being, and can be ei...

This week, we are talking about things that get in our way of success that we can manage and move out of our path toward success and fulfillment. Stress is one of those things. Stress is a natural part of life and can be a powerful warning sign that something needs to change. In both life and business, stress can be a valuable tool that can help us to identify and address problems before they beco...

"We Have Met the Enemy and It is Us" This week we will focus on how we can get out of the way of our own path toward success and fulfillment. "Getting out of your own way" refers to the idea that sometimes, our own thoughts and behaviors can hold us back from achieving our goals and reaching our full potential. In both life and business, it's important to be aware of these self-imposed barriers an...

Monday Motivation and Momentum.  No one can be a better you than you.  This means you are in the best position to be an expert on you.  Experts are created rather than born.  By this I mean to say that in order to show up as an expert for yourself, you'll need to work at it. Becoming an expert on yourself is a journey that requires time, reflection, and self-awareness. It's abo...

Leaders Aren't Afraid of Great Talent. True leaders aren't always the smartest person in the room. In fact, they are often the ones who surround themselves with the smartest people in the room. A true leader understands that their own knowledge and expertise is limited, and that they can learn and grow from the people around them. A true leader is humble, and they are always looking to learn from...

True leaders don't gaslight. Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or group makes someone question their own sanity, memory, or perception of events. This is often done in order to gain and maintain power and control over the person who the gaslighting is directed toward. Gaslighting is a toxic behavior that has no place in leadership. Gas lighting may be overt or s...

As was shared yesterday, Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. His leadership style and speeches continue to inspire people around the world to this day. Here are two more leadership lessons that we can learn from Martin Luther King Jr: Persistence: Martin Luther King Jr. was a persistent leader who never gave up on his go...

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. His leadership style and speeches continue to inspire people around the world to this day. Here are the first two of four leadership lessons that we can learn from Martin Luther King Jr: Vision: Martin Luther King Jr. had a clear vision of what he wanted to achieve. He had a vision of...

There was a TV Show in the 80's called the Facts of Life and the theme song said "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life..."  It was a great show about young girls at a boarding school coming of age and learning various life lessons.  The first line of the theme song is a good reality lens for life.   We like to think of our hero...

This week we've been talking about the importance of relationships and we'll wrap up with your relationship with yourself.  How do you take care of you? How Do you Treat Yourself?  How do you talk to yourself?  How do you take care of yourself? Where do you put yourself in place of importance?   On an airplane we're told to put our mask on before assisting others.  When I...

What is your relationship to your thoughts, to the lessons your learn, the information you pick up, and the actions you do or don't take.  How do your thoughts, life learnings , and behavior impact other relationships. When it comes to your thoughts are you able to engage in them are you able to manage them to your advantage?  I was recently talking to a young professional who was workin...

Today let's take a little different angle on relationships and look at our relationship to things - stuff - material things.  First of all let me say that I am not against people having things.  As a person and business professional, I think there is something beneficial about enjoying things, and taking care of them.  The perspective I want us to take a look at is what our relation...

It all boils down to relationships.  When we think of relationships, we generally think about people.  So let's spend some time today focusing on how people relationships matter. I am sure we can all think of a time when we benefited from our relationship with a family member or friend, a professional connection, or a network connection.   Perhaps they helped us resolve a tough...

Episode 3-245: Relationship Matters -Showing Up I've recently had and am having a chance to spend some time with people who I don't normally have a chance to spend a lot of time with.  I am incredibly grateful for that time, because it is an opportunity to develop a stronger bond and to mutually pour into one another's lives.  Strong bonds and adding value to one another are valuable in...

This week we've been talking about awareness.  Let's finish up with a question that embodies awareness: What's Your Plan for You? What is your plan for you? Have you really thought about what you want to do with your life or maybe you are looking to make a change?  Your plan might be  to have a process to figure out what you do want to do - which means exposing yourself to different...

Continuing our theme on awareness, I thought I'd spend some time on relational awareness.  In order to know how people are feeling and what they are thinking, it's important that we check in with them.  It's important for us to listen to words, to hear what is being said and what is not being said, it's also important to look for consistencies and inconsistencies between words, current b...

This week we've talked about topics that deal with awareness.  Recognizing when something is broken and needs to be repaired, replaced, or tossed out is also an important part of awareness that can positively impact us. Imagine a car that has a small hole in the gas tank.  You can keep filling up the tank, but it never gets the gas mileage you need or expect.  The leak also creates...