Your mindset reflects your past, describes your present, and predicts your future. Excellence, like leadership, is built from the inside out. Your organization’s excellence will rarely exceed your team’s excellence, and your team’s excellence will rarely exceed your personal excellence. Therefore, the most important question a leader should ask is: “What am I currently doing…
Vision looks inwardand becomes duty. Vision looks outwardand becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwardand becomes faith. —Stephen S. Wise
Who better to learn about living a life of meaning and service from than Saint Teresa? So, we have curated 12 compelling quotes of hers to share with you. We hope her words inspire you to bless someone's life (and maybe even your own life) this weekend. “If you judge people, you have no time…
With a milder-than-usual winter (here in Dallas, at least), Spring is starting to rear her head. It heightens my awareness of the natural laws that govern our physical lives. The "Law of the Harvest" is easiest to see at work in agriculture. If you plant 40 acres of corn, you will not reap 40 acres…
The Christ the Redeemer statue is one of the new seven wonders of the world and a cultural icon for Rio de Janeiro. A past summer Olympics cemented this image into the minds of millions. What really struck me was this video of workers making repairs from lightning damage. The workers take a real walk of faith on several levels (starting at 1 min.…
I am a pretty proficient texter, although I can't hold a candle to your average teenager. I recall when I purchased my first iPhone years ago, I was typing a text to my technology partner, Harry. I was encouraging him to do what he does best. I kept is short and sweet by writing, "Just…
Here are 10 lessons Julie learned from her mom, Grace Davis. Julie shared these lessons at her mom's memorial service on Nov. 15, 1994, and we want to share them with you now: Always know how very special you are – God only made one of you. Believe in yourself. Make connections, touch lives. Everyone…
In Healthy Leadership, the chapter on Positivity addresses talking yourself up. That section starts with: “You talk more to yourself than to anyone else in the world. You are the only one who is with you 100 percent of the time. The conversations you have with yourself have an overwhelmingly high impact on your mindset compared to…
It is important to be human with your team, but it is just as important to see the human behind the employee. The late Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was once asked by TV journalist Charlie Rose in an interview: “How many kids do you think are out there who in 30 years you’ve…
What you are not changing you are choosing.
