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Reframe your game.
When something is not working for you or proves to be unresouceful, trying harder doesn’t always work, especially if you are just trying the same thing – that already didn’t work – with more intensity. “Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein This is when “reframing the game” can be…
How Effective is Your Leadership?
LEADERSHIP PRACTICE Gauge your leadership effectiveness, by rating your employees’ willingness on a scale of always, sometimes, never to the following: My employees willingly embrace our organization’s vision, mission, and values. My employees willingly accept changes in the team or organization. My employees willingly “go the extra mile” for me or for our organization. My…
Do You Flow Like Water?
Years ago I was struck by Bruce Lee’s philosophy regarding the martial arts, which was to flow like water. He described limitations of any single style of martial art and trained himself and his students to be extremely adaptable and to utilize whatever works. This philosophy or principle can work well for us in the…
Do You Have a Mission Statement?
LEADERSHIP PRACTICE Your personal mission statement, core values, and intentions help you determine your direction. Use these high-level concepts to help you choose the activities and responsibilities that are best aligned with the direction you want to take. Your mission statement should be 1-2 sentences that describe your purpose as it relates to your career…
What’s Your Direction?
IT IS NOT THE SPEED, BUT THE DIRECTION How many things can help us move faster? Faster internet, faster planes, fast cars, faster products to help us clean, study, and lose weight. But with all of the things that are taking us places faster, are we even going in the right direction? Life can move at…
What’s Your Reason For Being?
LEADERSHIP PRACTICE Reflect upon your life’s purpose or mission, your reason for being. Begin to keep track of where and how you are investing your time during the course of a week. If you don’t have a statement, silently reflect back on your true purpose and write down whatever surfaces for you. Are your actions aligned with your…
On Purpose: Being vs. Doing
I continue to be intrigued by the notion of purpose and how “what you do” is less important than “how you do it.” How you do anything in this moment is a reflection of your inner purpose. Energetically, we are all vibrating at a higher level when our inner purpose is connected with our outer…
Are You Distracted by Technology?
LEADERSHIP PRACTICE Pay attention to your communication patterns by noticing and tracking how you are enabling and disabling yourself with technology. If you tend to use technology to streamline your own productivity and efficiency, what is the cost associated with being less present and unintentionally damaging relationships? Simply track how often you are distracted by technology,…
What Are You Wasting?
SUSTAINABILITY Recently I have had several opportunities to be introduced to organizations and individuals who are involved with this concept of sustainability and renewable energy – the green movement. I was intrigued by the concept and how we could apply it to the environment and my interest immediately became focused closer to home. More specifically,…
Are You Too “Plugged In?”
UNPLUG AND RECONNECT Technology provides us with a plethora of opportunities to reach out and touch someone. We are able to connect or reconnect with family, old friends, business colleagues and classmates. But the irony is that being “plugged in” has at times caused us to tune out, and this can seriously threaten our ability…