“Your purpose is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.” —Frederick Buechner There is only one of you. No one is exactly like you, and no one was created for the purpose you are to fulfill each day on Earth. Your purpose may or may not be what you do for a living, but it…
Here are seven things I have learned about life: 1. Life is about love . . . giving it, getting it, and living it. 2. We are all works in progress. 3. We are each beautifully and wonderfully made for a unique purpose. 4. We are hard-wired for connection, so “disconnecting” has negative emotional and…
Every day is Mother’s Day … at least for our moms. They have to be moms EVERY day! It’s a job that never ends. As children (and husbands) to moms, we can never fully appreciate the most important job in the world. I have been blessed with a mom who gave me, among many gifts,…
Here is an excerpt from Leadership Matters. It contains 31 daily insights to inspire extraordinary results. day 25: Reflection Today's hyperactive and attention-demanding world makes reflection no easy task. Nonetheless, we still must find a way to carve out "mental space" so we can think clearly, plan, reflect, dream. My youngest daughter has a special…
Here is an excerpt from Leadership Matters. It contains 31 daily insights to inspire extraordinary results. day 17: Intuition Tom Peters called intuition our greatest gift. It’s the feeling we get when what we are seeing doesn’t match up with the facts we think we know; it’s the sudden move we make without thinking that saves…
Comfort certainly has its advantages—our comfy chair in the living room, a comfortable routine at work, a comfortable relationship. With all the advantages of comfort, here are some things you should know about the comfort zone before you explore the edge. The comfort zone is where most of life is played. It is certainly where…
Here is an excerpt from Leadership Matters. It contains 31 daily insights to inspire extraordinary results. Time is a great equalizer; it runs at the same speed for everybody, rich or poor, jet pilot or snail farmer. You can’t manufacture time, you can’t reproduce time, you can’t slow time down or turn it around and…
Here is an excerpt from Leadership Matters. It contains 31 daily insights to inspire extraordinary results. day 14: Impact Contrary to the lyrics from a classic rock song, one is not the loneliest number. But it is the most important number! Your thoughts, words, and actions are like individual notes that work in concert to create the…
As parents and leaders, we tend to focus on teaching lessons to our teams, whether it is a team of employees at work or a team of children at home. In today’s fast-moving and ever-changing world, we must also focus on learning new lessons ourselves. We have learned from our children how to: give grace…
There are lessons to be learned in everything your team does. Look for learning opportunities in post-project reviews, customer meetings, conflicts with other departments, changes in priorities, miscommunications, and mistakes. Get curious about these situations. This will also set a positive example for your team and plant the seeds of curiosity in them. Try these…
