A dream written down with a date becomes a GOAL. A goal broken down into steps becomes a PLAN. A plan backed by ACTION becomes REALITY.
From Dream to Reality
Category: Personal Leadership
Sharing Strength Stories
An exercise that encourages you and others is to share “strength stories.” During strength stories, team members share a verbal narrative about a time when they were at their very best. Have them conjure details of that time: what they were doing, who they were interacting with, what they accomplished, and how they felt. As…
Love and Leadership
Love is the source of most everything that is good and healthy . . . at home and at work. It is the most talked about, written about, and sung about topic in the world. You certainly always love your children even though you might not always like their actions or attitudes. The same is…
Mix it Up
Our brains enjoy novelty. It is good for us and helps us create new neural connections. What do you enjoy? Seek variety in your life. Consider peppering your life with some high-excitement activities to spice things up. For some, this may be skydiving or bungee jumping, but you can also reach new heights on the…
A Father’s Legacy
On March 4, 1914, my late father, Peter Colantuono was born and would soon become part of the Greatest Generation. Over 100 years later, I sit in my ergonomic office chair gazing out my window at a beautiful tree line. It’s a welcome mental break from considering a particular client’s challenge and polishing up a…
11 Reflections from Maya Angelou
When the great American poet, the late Maya Angelou, reflected on her life and learnings, she said, “I’ve learned that… No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. You can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three…
A New Leadership Mandate
Something is healthy when it is in an optimal state of well-being. We strive for healthy relationships, a healthy diet, a healthy body, a healthy mind, healthy emotions, healthy perspectives, healthy conversation, healthy awareness, and healthy finances. With all this focus on healthy everything, we asked, “What about healthy leadership?” There are far too many…
Words Create Worlds
Sticks and stones may break my bones, and words really can hurt me. Many of us grew up saying a slightly different version of the previous phrase, asserting that words could not hurt us. However, we now know that words are building blocks for our self-image and personal expectations. Our words create worlds. The English language…
Peanuts Wisdom
Sparky didn't have much going for him. He failed every subject in eighth grade. In high school, he flunked Latin, Algebra, English, and Physics. He made the golf team but lost the only important match of the season, and then he lost the consolation match. He was awkward socially. He never once asked a girl…
A Memorial to Courage
After a recent visit to Washington, D.C., it struck me that all the war memorials were really memorials about courage. Taking a stand—for anything—requires courage. Courage is knowing what’s right and then acting on it. During the Nazi occupation of his country in WWII, King Christian X of Denmark noticed a Nazi flag flying over…