On Living with Purpose: Are you bored with life?

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. ~ Audrey Hepburn Today is Saturday. Slow down a bit and take some time to ponder. Are … Continue reading On Living with Purpose: Are you bored with life? →

On Career Development: Accountability

Accountability: “A personal choice to rise above one’s circumstances and demonstrate the ownership necessary for achieving desired results – to See It, Own It, Solve It, and Do it.” ~ Roger Connors, Tom Smith and Craig Hickman This quote comes from the book, The Oz Principle, written by the founders of the consulting firm … Continue reading On Career Development: Accountability →

On Career Development: The Ability to Focus

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. ~ Stephen Covey In yesterday's post I introduced the acronym FACE IT to identify six leadership attributes I believe will help accelerate your career and professional development. The six attributes are Focus, Accountability, Customer Driven, Execution, Innovation, and Teacher. The first attribute, … Continue reading On Career Development: The Ability to Focus →

On Leadership: Truth is Simpler

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. ~ Richard Feynman One of the books I refer to frequently in my coaching is Crucial Conversations by Joseph Grenny. I recommend it for your axiom leadership library. In the book Mr. Grenny discusses how we often hear, read, or see something and … Continue reading On Leadership: Truth is Simpler →

On Living with Purpose: The Measure of Your Life

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer As you think about this quote today, I encourage you to not think in terms of giving away money; although that resource can be used for good. Instead, I encourage you to think … Continue reading On Living with Purpose: The Measure of Your Life →

On Innovation: Creativity vs. Art

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams Do you remember the free flowing creativity you used to do as a child? Remember all the times you created art just for the love of creating and sharing with others? Where did that love go? I think … Continue reading On Innovation: Creativity vs. Art →

On Career Development: Listen To Your Heart

So whatever you plan to do, whether you plan to travel the world next year, go to graduate school, join the workforce, or take some time off to think, don't just listen to your head. Listen to your heart. It's the best career counselor there is. Do what you really love to do and if … Continue reading On Career Development: Listen To Your Heart →

For Sunday: The Hour of Your Decision is the Crisis in Your Destiny

Your first duty in life is towards your afterself. So live that your afterself - the man you ought to be - may in his time be possible and actual. Far away in the years he is waiting his turn. His body, his brain, his soul, are in your boyish hands. He cannot help himself. … Continue reading For Sunday: The Hour of Your Decision is the Crisis in Your Destiny →

For Sunday: A Teacher Affects Eternity

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~ Henry Brooks Adams

On Greatness: The Will to Meet the Trials

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson