June 5, 2014

Three strategies to supercharge your productivity [podcast]

Several years ago a fire got lit under me. It was my fiftieth birthday. Suddenly, I felt a sense of urgency and mission I hadn’t experienced before. It fueled a voracious appetite to dig into productivity strategies and to ...

June 4, 2014

The price of anxiety

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. -- Seth Godin

There’s no shortage of things to be anxious about. We may have anxiety about our jobs, our bank account, our family, our health, the future of our country. Anxiety disorder affects nearly one in every seven adults, making it ...

June 3, 2014

Five tools you already possess that can inspire another

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” If true, it follows that the most inspiring leaders will be those who help others become what ...

May 29, 2014

What is a personal brand and do you need one? [podcast]

“Starting today, you are a brand.” Those words written by Tom Peters in an article titled, “The Brand of You” appearing in the August/September 1997 issue of FastCompany magazine set off a movement. Suddenly it was chic to have a ...

May 28, 2014

Put an end to “someday” this summer

What are your plans this summer? How about getting your new business off the ground? Or that new book idea? Or a speaking career? Those are some of the dream projects of a new group of dream-doers. These folks are not sacrificing ...

May 26, 2014

What Memorial Day can teach us about leadership

Memorial Day is the day we remember those who paid the greatest price for our freedom. It is honoring to pause and reflect on those who gave what they could never take back. These are the heroes whose sacrifices ...

May 23, 2014

Is the habit of journaling worth the investment of time?

Is journaling worth the investment in time?

I’ve been journaling daily for just over 18 months—550 days to be exact—long enough that it’s become an entrenched habit for me. It’s also long enough to ask the question: Is the return on this activity worth the investment ...

May 22, 2014

Four things you need to know about resistance [podcast]

Albert Einstein said, “Nothing happens until something moves.” When you and I get moving on our venture project, the sure thing that happens is that we’ll get resistance. Resistance is that thing which seemingly conspires to keep us from ...

May 21, 2014

Your wins can’t teach you anything

We all like a good win. But they can’t teach us anything. Sure, we may gain more confidence by them. They may also rally others to our cause. But we never really learn from them because a win ...

May 19, 2014

Store, don’t kill your new idea

Recently I had an idea as I was journaling. A good one. As quickly as it came, however, I dismissed it. “I don’t trust myself to do this,” I wrote in my journal. Why did I do that?, I ...

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