Category: Business, Leadership, Personal Management

The Leader’s First Step

For Their Benefit Or Yours? One of the most difficult aspects of leadership is that leaders, when not paying attention, revert to their ego-centric state. That is, in the normal course of pursuing success, their focus is on themselves—what is and isn’t going the way...

Celebrate With Gratitude

Quite A Year We’ve come to the end of the year, which for many, was quite a year unlike any other. While some would rather forget it, please don’t. Instead, take a moment to appreciate all that has happened and celebrate that you came through it. No matter how...

Ground Zero State of De-Stress

Manage Your Stress Managing yourself can be a real chore. You can be the most uncooperative, resistant person you have to deal with. And you really frustrate yourself when you won’t take responsibility for yourself. Very irritating. For instance, coming out of the...

Gratitude Is A Skill

Gratitude Is A Value In a recent training on professionalism, one participant said that one of their values is gratefulness. It struck me because I don’t hear that expressed as a value very much. Yet it is so clear how impactful a grateful attitude is on our whole...