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3 Things Every Leader Needs to Know About Motivating People
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 motivates people, and some of the all-to-common mistakes that most leaders and managers have been...
How I Healed From 10 Years of Severe Chronic Pain
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 for meeting with a qualified medical provider to ensure your condition doesn’t require medical...
Become a Dream Igniter
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 won’t be the leader for long. You cannot separate growth and leadership. Second—You need to...
Master Your Inner Saboteurs
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 in the past few years have universally identified this to be the most useful part of the...
Lessons in Happiness from 75 Years of Harvard Research
“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 way in understanding happiness. And you can use this research to enrich your life, avoid...
Using the Science of Decision Fatigue to Improve Your Leadership Decisions
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 example, last week she asked me, “Honey, which type of cereal do you want next week when I get...
When Helping Hurts
“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 for pre-school and doing my usual rushing through my morning. She came down and sat at the...
