“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” –Samuel Johnson Do you have kids or lead a team? Did you know what you say, and how you praise them, can...
Mentors Help You Climb Higher and Go Faster
by Parker Houston | Dec 8, 2022 | Optimal Performance, Personal Leadership
“The first law of leadership is that people do what people see.” –John Maxwell The older I get, the more I realize how simple human behavior can be. To a huge extent—people...
GRIT—Why Everyone Needs to Grow This Character Trait
by Parker Houston | Dec 1, 2022 | Personal Leadership
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” –Babe Ruth Today we will be talking about one of the most important character traits you can ever develop for...
A Leadership Lesson from Metallica
by Parker Houston | Nov 24, 2022 | Personal Leadership
“You can either focus on looking good or getting good, but you can’t do both.” –Marshall Goldsmith, Top Ranking Executive Coach On April 11, 1983, at 9am, the band members...
The Neuroscience of Affirmations, and Why You Need to Start Doing Them
by Parker Houston | Nov 10, 2022 | The Science of Mindset
First thing, a huge thank you to all our veterans today! “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” –Wayne Dyer In the very first...
The Greater the Awareness, The Greater the Choice
by Parker Houston | Nov 3, 2022 | Personal Leadership, The Science of Mindset
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” –Victor Frankl One...
How I Healed From 10 Years of Severe Chronic Pain
by Parker Houston | Oct 27, 2022 | Mind and Body
Photo is me after the grueling hike up Mount Tallc on March 17th, 2021 *This article does not constitute medical or psychological advice in any way, and is not a substitute...
3 Things Every Leader Needs to Know About Motivating People
by Parker Houston | Oct 20, 2022 | Top Teams Made Simple
As a leader, how important is it to know what really motivates people? Answer—pretty darn important! In today’s post, we are going to discuss what research says truly...
Become a Dream Igniter
by Parker Houston | Oct 6, 2022 | How People Change
As a leader, you need to understand how people change for 2 primary reasons: First—You must continue to grow yourself in order to lead. If others outpace you in growth, you...
Just Like Me…
by Parker Houston | Sep 29, 2022 | Personal Leadership
You’ve heard me say it before, but it’s worth repeating—the brain is a prediction machine. The brain’s primary purpose is to keep us alive—and the best way to stay alive is...
Master Your Inner Saboteurs
by Parker Houston | Sep 22, 2022 | How People Change, The Science of Mindset
In working with my own coach, today’s topic has helped me personally more than almost any other mechanism—exposing the inner saboteur. Furthermore, the people I have coached...
10 Best Practices for Hiring (and Keeping) a Top Team
by Parker Houston | Sep 15, 2022 | Top Teams Made Simple
Ever since I became a manager 12 years ago, I’ve been curious about best practices for hiring. I’ve been part of organizations that struggled to keep vacancy rates of over...
Leadership Lessons From Winston Churchill—The Roaring Lion
by Parker Houston | Sep 8, 2022 | Personal Leadership
It’s hard to imagine a more difficult leadership assignment in the history of the world than what Winston Churchill faced. There is a reason his most iconic portrait by...
Right Speech: A Leaders Words Matter
by Parker Houston | Sep 1, 2022 | Personal Leadership
Few things are more important that a leader’s words. A careless word can wound for a lifetime. An encouraging word might energize someone for a year. A badly timed reaction...
What is Good or Bad? A Tao Parable
by Parker Houston | Aug 25, 2022 | Self Leadership
A farmer and his son lived on a farm in the countryside. They owned a beautiful horse they cherished deeply. The farmer entered the horse into a village contest and won...
Live Your Life That the Fear of Death Can Never Enter Your Heart
by Parker Houston | Aug 18, 2022 | Personal Leadership
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion. Respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love...
Perfectionism—The Number One Joy Killer
by Parker Houston | Aug 4, 2022 | The Science of Happiness
In a prior post, I summarized the main findings from the 75-year study at Harvard on happiness. While reading the study, one sentence absolutely jumped off the page at...
The Relationship Between Happiness and Success
by Parker Houston | Jul 21, 2022 | The Science of Happiness
The modern formula for success is broken. In today’s world, most people act as if they believe that happiness will be a guaranteed result of success. But if that were true,...
The 5 Most Common Happiness Traps at Work
by Parker Houston | Jul 14, 2022 | The Science of Happiness
“Most people climb the ladder of success only to realize it was leaning against the wrong building.” –Stephen Covey Several years ago I had a shot at what I thought was my...
Lessons in Happiness from 75 Years of Harvard Research
by Parker Houston | Jul 7, 2022 | The Science of Happiness
“I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they could know it wasn’t the answer to anything.” –Jim Carey In the last 100 years, science has come a very long...
Using the Science of Decision Fatigue to Improve Your Leadership Decisions
by Parker Houston | Jun 30, 2022 | Self Leadership
It used to be that my wife would save her most complex and difficult questions for me until after 8pm when our kids are in bed and we finally have 2 minutes to talk. As an...
Have you contracted Device Disease? What research tells us.
by Parker Houston | Jun 23, 2022 | Personal Leadership
“Technological progress has merely provided us with a more efficient means for going backwards.” –Aldous Huxley The Big Idea: According to research, constantly checking our...
What is the good life?—Research on the 7 Habits of Happy People
by Parker Houston | Jun 16, 2022 | Leading During COVID19, The Science of Happiness
“Our greatest fear in life should not be of failure, but of succeeding in life at things that don’t really matter.” –Francis Chan The Big Idea: Whether you lead a business,...
When Helping Hurts
by Parker Houston | Jun 9, 2022 | Family Leadership, Personal Leadership
“Give a person a fish and they eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and they eat for a lifetime.” –Lao Tzu A few months ago, I was getting my three-year-old daughter ready...
Jose Alvarenga—Surviving More Than A Year Lost At Sea
by Parker Houston | Jun 2, 2022 | Personal Leadership, The Science of Mindset
If you have never heard of Jose Alvarenga, you will want to hear his incredible story of survival at sea. I first heard this story last year while reading 438 Days—by...
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