Manage to Engage

This episode continues our exploration into frustration. So if you accept that the arbitrary expression of frustration at work is not good, what do you do when it comes up in you? How do you manage the frustration inside you and do the right thing to help yourself and those around you? What’s the difference between having frustration and becoming it? That’s what we explore in this segment. For mor...

This episode begins a four-part series on the subject of frustration. Many would say we live in a frustrating world, but is the frustration really in the world, your work, or in your employees? What if letting yourself express that frustration is mostly making things much worse? Join these segments from a recent leader webcast and unpack frustration with us. Believe it or not, this is a path to an...

This episode is part five of the series on heart-centering and is an assignment from the Open To Excellence course available to Clear and Open Members. To find out how to join the conversation and become a member, go to clearandopen.com. This is a short, but powerful piece on how to write your own eulogy. I know of no other exercise that goes right the core of what matters to you, and forms a powe...

This episode is part four of the series on heart-centering. This series is made up of excerpts from the Open To Excellence course available to Clear and Open Members. To find out how to join the conversation and become a member, go to clearandopen.com. What if being too sure about who you are is exactly what’s in your way? If it’s the design of Life that you must evolve to have your dreams come tr...

This episode continues the heart-centering theme of the last two episodes and deconstructs guilt, a pervasive theme in our society often not seen for what it is. This is another excerpt from the Live, Open To Excellence Course currently in progress. Many people use guilt as a kind of fuel-source without realizing it. It’s sort of like running your car on a mix of gas and oil. It’ll work, but it’s...

Today’s episode continues the conversation from episode six. There’s plenty of information and teaching out there about creating goals and that’s useful. What tends to get left behind, though, is the heart-centered dreams that were always there. They don’t need to be created so much as uncovered. If the Clear part of goals is creating your plans, this episode is about the Open part we usually leav...

Everybody knows they “should” have goals, but few know how to do it well, so most avoid it. What’s the difference between pursuing the absence of a negative and pursuing the presence of a positive? The distinction has the power to change your life. What if you’re so concerned with pushing away bad, that you’re not focused on the good? Many people live their entire lives needlessly stuck in this ki...

Meditation becomes more popular every day in the western world, even in business settings. But like so many spiritual teachings that become popular, there’s a dramatic misunderstanding that can severely limit the practice. Sadly, many meditators can waste years not knowing this simple, but commonly unappreciated principle that will change your meditation practice forever.

Ever wonder why your mind is a constant stream of mostly unnecessary, and often troubling thought? Understanding how and why your mind fills in the blank is part of the path of perceiving reality more accurately, and when you’re seeing things more clearly, you make better decisions, and enjoy your life a whole lot more. Leaders and managers in particular can’t afford to be distorting reality–there...

Is being a trusting person a good thing? Or does someone have to earn your trust? Managers who give trust when it’s not earned get everyone into trouble. Know the difference between belief, trust, and experience. A good manager operates in reality, and is constantly checking themselves and others against it. This episode, an excerpt from a recent leader webcast continues the conversation from the...

What if ten times more information were available to you than you realized in any moment? How can a manager hear between the lines of what people say to extrapolate how they’re operating? It’s a skill that takes time to learn, and it starts with some basic principles that you can implement right away. Today another segment from a recent leader webcast, where we discuss some of the principles of ex...

Should you “believe” in your people? Does seeing the best in people make you a good manager? What about seeing the reality? What about also seeing the worst? Join us for some live coaching already in progress for the deconstruction of belief and learn how believing in people gets you into trouble.   Learn more at: ClearAndOpen.com