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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...
How Do You Define Success?
What is your definition of a “successful” life? It’s a question worth thinking about—and continually trying to answer. We are constantly bombarded with false—and unsatisfying—measures of success. So if we don’t take the time to consciously define it for ourselves, it...
You Become Like Those You Spend Time With
*This post has been updated for the practices of personal leadership series. Several years ago, while biking with my close friend, he casually mentioned the following quote which has rocked my perspective ever since…. “You are the average of the top 5 people you spend...
Money is an Essential Personal Leadership Skill
“You either learn to manage money, or the lack of that skill will manage you for the rest of your life.” –Dave Ramsey With the current housing market, inflation, and recession talk, money is a topic on a lot of people's minds. And the beginning of a new year is the...
Year Behind, Year Ahead
Today’s Big Idea—“Some people live 80 years, most people live one year 80 times.” –Zig Ziglar For the last several years, I have established a few practices that help me close out the year reflecting on what happened, what I’ve learned, and set my goals for the...
Mentors Help You Climb Higher and Go Faster
“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 do what people see. We become like those we watch. Whether we meet with a mentor for coffee,...
The Neuroscience of Affirmations, and Why You Need to Start Doing Them
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 microsecond you first looked at this image, your brain registered one of two things—a candlestick or...
