Competence describes more than just your skills and knowledge. Competence represents anything that improves your ability to perform including your knowledge, skills, relationships, resourcefulness, processes, systems and information. Building your competence boosts your confidence ... and confidence is a close friend to high achievers. Building your competence is like cleaning your house. If you stop…
Life happens to all of us. Sometimes it is filled with joyful, amazing experiences. Sometimes it can be trying with health, financial, work or relationship challenges. Our future can be brighter if we intentionally look for the lessons and learnings from our trials and reframe our memories. You can work on creating inspiring memories out…
Laughter really is the best medicine at work and at home. It's the cheapest and fastest way to take a mental vacation. Our daughter, Lexi, is the source of much laughter in our home. She enjoys combining word play with her sense of humor. Here is the result in the form of one-liners she came…
We live in an information-rich, time-poor world. As a result, it is easy for us to behave like rats. In other words, we see an opportunity (stimulus) and we jump at it (response). The great thing about being human (aside from our ability to use a TV remote) is that we can exercise choice. So…
Think about the last time you were in the ocean. Whether you were swimming, kayaking or paddle boarding, you kept an eye on your umbrella or bright colored towel on the beach to track your movement in the water. Rarely, if ever, does drifting in the water take you where you want. You must intentionally steer and…
Life's rewards go to those who let their ACTIONS rise above their EXCUSES. There are 107 ways to stick to it so your actions speak louder than excuses.
We judge ourselves by our intentions, but others judge us by our actions. Help is not help until it is given, so turn your intentions to help into acts of help.
My mother passed away was she was only 60 (I was 31) and this December, I lost my father who was 84 years old. Although my Dad suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, he would never forget to tell you how proud he was of you and how much he loved you. He would always ask what…
Would you like to know a guaranteed recipe for you and your team to be in the top one-tenth of one percent of all performers? Can you afford not to? Throughout our lifetimes, we grasp at the latest fads and the newest techniques, all with the hope of capturing the magic we see in others who…
A business that delivers reliable results is a sum of reliable teams, and reliable teams are the sum of reliable individuals. So, building reliable business results really starts with a leader coaching each team member to deliver reliable individual results. Leadership is an inside job. It starts inside with your personal leadership, traits like integrity,…
