The dark side of lost momentum
When you cease doing something important to you, you've entered the dark side of lost momentum. And it may cost you in more ways than just a delayed outcome.
Tag Archives: trust
The art of vulnerability [podcast]
In this week's episode we discuss the art of vulnerability, what it is, why it's important for developing trust, and why it's so difficult to engage it in.
How to regain trust [podcast]
Healthy relationships—business and personal—are based on trust. We cannot function without it. Yet, when broken, how do you regain trust?
Review: “No One Understands You” by Heidi Grant Halvorson
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” His comment is striking because it’s not what we typically experience. All of us have found ourselves on the receiving end of being ...
Four reasons to stretch your vision
What’s the vision for your life? How could you make it bigger? Those questions may irk you. Perhaps because you don’t know how to answer them. Or perhaps because you think a big vision means self-promotion or world domination. ...
Valley taught: The stuff that fuels your ascent
I grew up at the foothills of inspiration. Right outside my front-door loomed Colorado’s majestic Pikes Peak. One of the first things I noticed when I moved to Minnesota was that there were no mountains—lots of gorgeous lakes, but ...
When anxiety flattens you
Here’s the 3-step formula for living: Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat. Forget any one of those and you’re pretty well sunk. Experience a job loss or health crisis and you feel pretty well sunk too. That punch in the ...
A prayer for the anxious
Anxiety affects us all at one time or another. In my previous post, Surviving the tsunami of a job loss, I described how anxiety suppresses our creative thinking about how we might respond. In this post and the next, ...
Are you overworking?
Are you overworking? It’s easy to think the answer to that question lies in counting the number of hours you spend at work each week. Many of us have a magic line in the sand; is it 40 hours? ...
Do You Want to Change the World? Think Courageous.
The movie "Courageous" is already a success, and it hasn't opened yet. While male moviegoers will be inspired to be better dads, the more transcendent message of "Courageous" is in the belief of a small community in Georgia who ...
