Tired? Feeling you have little to no energy to do what you would like to do? Before you answer, “I don’t have time”, ask yourself this question. What are you choosing to spend time on instead? You are always spending your time on something, and it’s your choice on what that something is. Your busyness, […]
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We all make them. Then why is it so hard sometimes to accept it when we do? What does making mistakes say about you? Easy. Making mistakes means you are trying. My youngest son Wyatt hates making mistakes. This often causes him to not even try. No matter how much I tell him that it’s
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When looking for your next generation of leaders, it makes sense to cultivate the widest pool you can manage. So why, when thinking about the future, do so many executives limit their options? In fact, when trying to find future leaders, companies tend to fall into three common issues: Current leaders overvalue job performance,
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Whether you’re a Business Owner, CEO or Entrepreneur, creating a strong brand identity is crucial for your long-term success. Consumers have choices and what they will tend to choose more frequently are the brands that they can identify with or recognize. The Nike check-mark or Apple logo are easily identified and are great examples
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One of your most important tools, is your ability to choose how you react in any given situation. The power of positive thinking is not a new concept. In fact, it has been practiced and preached by many. Chances are, you have heard at least one story if not dozens about people who persisted despite
When you are faced with an extra workload or added responsibility, sometimes you need to sacrifice something in order to take more on of something else. What used to be popular and common was sacrificing sleep. It tended to be put aside so that one can get more done. Then, we started reading and hearing
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There are a lot of situations from my past that could have been avoided if I had responded instead of reacted. If you look at some of today’s headlines, it is filled with examples of how people reacting through their emotions lead to some questionable decisions and strong consequences. The Twitterverse is full of examples
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If you were to think of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, it’s likely that people such as Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates would instantly spring to mind. They are all male, of course, but there are plenty of enormously successful and influential women who have made it big in the corporate world, even
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Rarely do goals go as planned. It seems like the ones that truly count are the ones that have the most zig zags and detours. There are many best practices and guidelines one can follow when it comes to goal setting. Some goal setting practices such as S.M.A.R.T Goals were made popular for it’s easy
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A lot of successful people will tell you that one of the keys is getting up early in the morning. They don’t just get up for the sake of getting up, though. The idea is to rise early and accomplish more by noon than most people accomplish in a full workday. Ideas like this are
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You take the time to plan out all the details. You want to make sure nothing is missed. Then, stuff happens. Sometimes, no matter how prepared you are, things don’t go as planned. So, what do you do next? Get disappointed and give up? Or use your new environment to plan your next step? I
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When faced with upsetting news, how you do react? Are you curious and keep digging in for more information in order to find a solution? Or, do you just pretend the problem doesn’t exist and try to avoid risks? When my Dad had his major stroke back in 2000, he went into a coma
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We are always running to the next task, event or responsibility we need to get to. Our minds are constantly turning, and it becomes easy to forget to live in the now. You get caught up thinking about your next “todo” without focusing on your current “doing”. We constantly get bombarded daily with instant notifications,
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One of the most important planning any organization should invest in is in a Leadership Pipeline. Succession planning is the process where you ensure that you will never have a key role open for which another employee is not prepared. The more Senior the role, the more important succession planning becomes. In fact, one of
It was one of the longest experiments of my life. The quest to find the right task management system in order to increase my productivity. I would find one and then get quickly bored. It was hard to find one I wanted to stick to. Then, I realized what I was doing wrong. I was
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