Thought For The Week: Building Your Future
The choices you make today will build your future--starting with the very next moment!
Too Bad You Won't
Are you here to lead an extraordinary life? I ask because Jacques Cousteau once said: "If you have the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, you have no right to keep it to yourself.” The instant I read that quote I couldn't help but see the most important, the...
Making a Workplace Everyone Wants to Work For and Your Team Will Never Want to Leave
What's your dream work environment? We all know employee retention is an economic issue and low turnover is a huge financial boon for any company. If an employee loves working at your company, not only will they stay longer, chances are they'll also perform much...
Five Daily Activities To Draw Out Your Child's Inner Leader
Everyone is born with the gift of leadership—even your child, as hard as that may sometimes be to believe in the midst of a full-scale tantrum. Yes, everyone is born with this gift. And one of the myriad of responsibilities we hold as a parent is to help our...
One Detrimental Habit We All Need To Quit
In every career, and in fact in almost every area of life, there’s one nasty habit we all occasionally (if not regularly) fall into, and it’s incredibly hazardous to our well-being and success. Stop it, and you effectively cut one of the anchor chains holding you...
Fears and Vulnerabilities
Often, when a client shares with me their doubts and insecurities—an intimate and difficult thing to share—I have to marvel at how similar these fears are to other clients I’ve met with. “You’re the third person this week to say something like that,” I said once,...
HAPPINESS: Bah Humbug!
I overheard someone telling another person in line recently that there is no such thing as happiness. “It’s not a state of being," they went on, "it’s a passing emotion like any other - like a breeze in the wind, here one moment, gone the next.” How sad, I thought. ...
The Problem With You People
Painting copyright Denny Dent and available at Denny Dent's Art Brokerage Page "You know what the problem is with you people? You only see what you expect to see!” That was the line that totally gripped me. Like a bolt of lightning it hit. WOW!!! Let me back...
Vision Statement or Values Statement?
What kind of business is your vision statement building? Image credit Frédéric BISSON via flickr under the creative commons license. Most companies have a classic vision statement. A mission. A concise definition of who they are and what they’re after. It’s a...
We're Asking the Wrong Question!
Photo courtesy Chris Piascik via Flickr, unchanged, under CC License What do you want to do when you grow up? It's the quintessential question that adults feel compelled to ask kids and it happened again last week at an event I attended with my wife and two...
