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Today we are going to start off on a three-part journey on the subject of resilience and mental fitness. Over the next three episodes, we will explore the metal mechanics of resilience, how we get hijacked by our own minds, and how to combat these forces to enjoy more positivity, more productivity, and ultimately more satisfaction, fulfillment, and happiness by developing mental fitness. So let’s...

I don’t know about you, but I’m beginning to feel some pressure with the holidays, school, work, oh and that pesky pandemic that won’t seem to go away. With all of this pressure, stress, and sometimes anxiety, you might be wondering how you’re going to make it to the end of this year without going completely mad. Well, fear not, I’ve got some ideas for you to help relieve some of that stress and i...

Here in the States, we celebrate Thanksgiving. A time for each of us to remember how thankful we are for family, friends, health, wealth, love, and life. This Thanksgiving will surely be different with limitations due to the COVID pandemic, but we can all still be grateful for what we do have and what we can do despite the pressures we may feel from sickness, separation, or even solitude. A great...

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Practice makes perfect.” And many people believe that is true, because they have seen that when they do things over and over and over again, they get really good at that thing…in fact, almost perfect. So it stands to reason that practice does indeed make perfect. But here’s the thing. No one can every become perfect. I know, I know, it’s just a saying and we all know t...

Hospitality is one of those words that doesn’t get the full credit it deserves. When was the last time you felt hospitality? Since we’ve been sequestered at home for so long, it’s probably been quite a while since you felt pampered and well cared for. Hospitality is not just for fancy hotels and restaurants. It’s for all of us in everyday encounters. Why should we wait for special occasions, locat...

Everything you do has an impact. It could be an impact on your employees, your peers, your boss. It could be an impact on your spouse, your kids, your friends, or neighbors. No matter what you do, you create an impact. The question is, what kind of impact do you want to make?

Your brain loves to play tricks on you. And one of the ways it does this is by throwing all sorts of random thoughts at you. Bacon and eggs while you’re in a meeting, cats playing baseball while you’re at lunch with a colleague, wildfires and hurricanes coming together while you’re settling into bed. Your brain doesn’t care what they are. And the more fantastic, outlandish, or terrifying, the bett...

All too often we hear about setting goals to achieve and accomplish more at work and in life. And goals are good. They help us create a future vision. They help us keep score along the way. They give us something to look forward to. But are we going about setting goals the right way? Or even setting the right goals?

Trust is built in the small moments. As leaders, we find ourselves in pivotal situations every single day. We may not realize them at the time as being pivotal, but later in the day or the next, we understand just how important they were. And if we’re smart (or at least aware) we may think, “Did I do the right thing at the time?” Now we won’t always be able to make the right call or do the right t...

Your good friend comes to you and has a real problem. They say they need your advice. You get all excited because you’re about to drop some serious wisdom on your good friend. You feel smart, valued, wanted, and dare I say, even superior? So your good friend begins to tell you of their problem and you, being the wonderful active listener that you are, nod your head, sprinkle in those words that le...

It’s interesting how we associate time with wisdom. The old sage, the elder statesman, the ancient guru. For the most part that can be a fairly accurate correlation…but only if we go about living the same life we have over and over again, year after year. But it doesn't have to be that way. You can decide to jump start, accelerate, and expand your knowledge and wisdom however you like.

We all have verbal crutches. You know, those words we use to fill the empty space in conversation. Usually they come when we don't know what to say, but sometimes...

Most of the time we are able to maintain good self-control over what we decide to do in certain situations. Other times we are swayed by various forces, and those forces can be internal or external. For instance, you’re driving along, enjoying your favorite song, you’re almost home, and then just as you are getting ready to exit the highway, someone cuts you off. You yell and shake your fist and y...

If you’re an entrepreneur, then you know what it means to be your own boss. If you want to be an entrepreneur, then you think you want to be your own boss. So let’s look at this charming little phrase for a moment. Be your own boss. What does that even mean?

If you’re an entrepreneur, then you know what it means to be your own boss. If you want to be an entrepreneur, then you think you want to be your own boss. So let’s look at this charming little phrase for a moment. Be your own boss. What does that even mean?

What is the meaning of life? Is it a course of challenges and accomplishments? Is it a game of opportunities and choices? Is it a situation of “what ifs” and “what could bes?” Is it a landscape of logic and economics? Or is it an environment of intuition and morality? Most likely it is a combination of all these things and quite a bit more.

How many times have you thought that once you’ve accomplished something or attained a certain stature, or completed some goal, then you will be happy, or satisfied, or fulfilled? Probably a few hundred times in your life, right? Well, today we talk about not delaying gratification.

We all think we are superheroes! We wear a red cape. We leap from tall tabletops. We climb trees, flex our biceps, do our power pose, chase down the bad guys, and save the world every afternoon. Because we are invincible when we are five years old. Nothing holds us back from thinking we are simply awesome! But somewhere along the way, we lost our sense of awesome because someone told us we weren’t...

Work isn't always rewarding. Sometimes that struggle looks rather bleak. We look at our jobs as a list of tasks, a pile of projects, and a set of annual goals. That may be interesting and motivating to some of you, but for most of us, that list or pile or set is pretty demotivating. That task list is boring. That pile of projects is intimidating. And right now, that set of goals seems out of reach...

We’ve been talking a lot about perspective lately. Which perspective is most positive, whose perspective are we listening to, and why perspective even matters. Today, we going to focus on how perspective is achieved. All too often, we cannot get ourselves in the right frame of mind, or we cannot get past a certain challenge, block, or obstacle. And the reason we cannot do so is because we are not...

It’s been another long, hard week of extra hours, extra effort, and extra stress with the kids going back to school or staying home and home-schooling, new pressures from work, and still more time home alone, not going out to enjoy regular socialization with friends and family. It’s enough to make you want to pull your hair our…but let’s not go there yet. Let’s take a more positive stance.

Everyone seems to be a coach nowadays. Well, maybe not everyone. But we all do some coaching at various times either at work or in life. Some folks do coaching better than others. Some lean on their listening skills. Others lean on their motivating skills. And others lean on their evaluating skills. Tune in to find out the real secret to being a great coach!

So often we find ourselves searching for clues or meaning from other people because we believe that must be the true reality – what others see in us. You’ve no doubt heard the phrase, “perception is reality.” But who’s reality? Yours or theirs?

We’ve all become pretty familiar with the term “self-care” because of the stay at home orders and the need to keep up with our regular work and family duties. It’s not always easy to keep up with so much life and work going on and those lines being blurred more than ever. So how do we make time and take that time to care for ourselves? And what does that really mean anyway?

I recently read a quote that stated, “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” I found this really interesting for a few reasons, and it made me realize that the decisions we make every day are largely based on how much discipline we have at any given moment.