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Consider All Time and Space
Photo by Deddy Dayag There is a wonderful story about President Teddy Roosevelt that teaches an essential life perspective. William Beebe, the naturalist, and a close friend of Roosevelt, is credited with sharing it. At Sagamore Hill, New York (nick-named the summer...
5 Essential Leadership Principles for Parenting
Today’s BIG IDEA— “Your greatest contribution to the world as a leader may not be something you do, it might be someone you raise.” –Andy Stanley When my first daughter was born, the nurses could tell we were total rookies in the parenting game, so they graciously...
Time Blocking—Join the Top 5% of the World’s Most Productive People
"If something is going to get done, it must occupy a physical space in your calendar." —Stephen Covey Now this sounds really simple—but how often do you say you are going to do something and it never hits your calendar, then never gets done? If...
Fly or Die? The Counterintuitive Truth About Power
Herds of buffalo are extremely loyal followers of one leader. They do what the leader does, they go where the leader goes. If the leader isn’t there, they stand around not knowing what to do. Early settlers of the frontier quickly realized that if they took out the...
Enantiodromia: When Extremes Become Their Opposite
"Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it enantiodromia, a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its...
Self-Compassion Is Not Fluff. Research Shows It’s Inseparable from a Champion’s Mindset.
“Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion on all of those unwanted parts of ourselves.” –Pema Chodron The Big Idea –One thing is certain—leaders cannot develop a true champion’s mindset without practicing the skills of self-compassion. Before you...
Never Train It, Never Get It
I was recently mountain biking with several friends when my friend Kelly said something profound. One of my friends was asking him how he is able to remain standing (as opposed to sitting down while pedaling) for much of the ride. This requires much more effort and...
