“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”–John...
You Become Like Those You Spend Time With
by Parker Houston | Jan 26, 2023 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
*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...
Money is an Essential Personal Leadership Skill
by Parker Houston | Jan 19, 2023 | The Pillars of Family Leadership, The Practices of Personal Leadership
“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...
Develop the Essential Life Skill of Apologizing
by Parker Houston | Jan 12, 2023 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
“When we look back at major rifts in life’s relationships, often it is because one person could not swallow their pride and just apologize for something. Apologizing changes...
The Legend of John the Dwarf
by Parker Houston | Dec 22, 2022 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
A mentor of mine shared this story with me several years ago. John the Dwarf—also known as Saint John Kolobos—was a Coptic desert father born in the year 339 in the town of...
Mentors Help You Climb Higher and Go Faster
by Parker Houston | Dec 8, 2022 | Optimal Performance Series, The Practices of 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 | The Practices of 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 | The Practices of 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 Greater the Awareness, The Greater the Choice
by Parker Houston | Nov 3, 2022 | The Practices of 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...
Solve Your Problems By Subtraction
by Parker Houston | Oct 13, 2022 | Self Leadership, The Practices of Personal Leadership
The Big Idea: According to research, the human brain tries to solve most of life’s problems through adding solutions, instead of removing things that might easily fix the...
Just Like Me…
by Parker Houston | Sep 29, 2022 | The Practices of 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...
Leadership Lessons From Winston Churchill—The Roaring Lion
by Parker Houston | Sep 8, 2022 | The Practices of 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 | The Practices of 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...
Live Your Life That the Fear of Death Can Never Enter Your Heart
by Parker Houston | Aug 18, 2022 | The Practices of 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...
Have you contracted Device Disease? What research tells us.
by Parker Houston | Jun 23, 2022 | The Practices of 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...
When Helping Hurts
by Parker Houston | Jun 9, 2022 | The Pillars of Family Leadership, The Practices of 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 | The Practices of 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...
Mudita: The Antidote To Envy
by Parker Houston | May 19, 2022 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
“It is in the character of very few, to honor without envy, a friend who has prospered.” –Aeschylus There is a famous story about the Buddha which teaches an essential life...
The Trial is My Teacher
by Parker Houston | May 5, 2022 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
“Accept whatever comes to you, woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?” –Marcus Aurelius Theodore Roosevelt was born with crippling...
All Great Thinking Begins With a Growth Mindset
by Parker Houston | Apr 28, 2022 | The Practices of Personal Leadership, The Science of Mindset
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” –Henry Ford Regarding core principles of personal leadership, few things are more important than...
Resist Nothing
by Parker Houston | Apr 21, 2022 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
Until he was 29 years old, Eckhart lived in a near-permanent state of severe anxiety and suicidal depression. He was quite miserable in his life, living in a constant state...
Fly or Die? The Counterintuitive Truth About Power
by Parker Houston | Apr 7, 2022 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
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...
Enantiodromia: When Extremes Become Their Opposite
by Parker Houston | Feb 10, 2022 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
“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...
This Job Is Killing Me! (Literally)
by Parker Houston | Jan 6, 2022 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
The Big Idea—A new global study published on May 17th, 2021 by the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization says that working more than 55 hours...
Lead YOU First
by Parker Houston | Sep 2, 2021 | The Practices of Personal Leadership
My friend Trey asks great questions. He recently asked me, “So why did you call it lead you first?” As I fumbled for a concise response, the question rattled around in my...
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