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Ever think that your journey and your story could be used to change someone’s life? I realize most of the time as we go through struggles, sometime significant, that we usually end up focusing on our situation, our challenges and…

Don’t burn out, keep yourself fueled and aflamed. Cheerfully expectant. Great line from Romans 12. Sometimes I think we allow those around us to influence our journey. They might say things like, it wasn’t your fault, that was not fair, what…

From 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes and behaviors…

The power of decisions. Great statement I heard from an exercise / life coach at a training session. This statement reminds us that our Choices Create Change. Deciding is the first step for everything in our life. What we do,…

Great comment I heard recently. There seems to be a lot of assuming across most organizations about why things are not being done correctly. We assume they should know. We assume they understand. We assume they know what is expected….

Stockdale Paradox Good to Great, Jim Collins Stockdale Paradox: You must retain faith that you can prevail to greatness in the end, while retaining the discipline to confront the brutal facts of your current reality. What can you do today…

Every organization has its unique set of irrational and difficult constraints, yet some make a leap while others facing the same environmental challenges do not. This is perhaps the single most important point of all of Good to Great. Greatness…

From “Good to Great” by Jim Collins Building a great organization proceeds in four basic stages. Stage 1: Disciplined People Level 5 Leadership – leaders that are ambitious for the cause and not themselves. The resolve to do whatever it…

“Culture is like a forest. The seeds are your Core Values. Once they take root as behaviors, they grow into trees, populating your cultural forest. Bad seeds produce unhealthy forest, infertile, and plagued by infestations. Good seeds produce a healthy…

Emyth revisited  “But all the while, even while you’re guessing, the key is to plan, envision, and articulate what you see in the future both for yourself and for your employees. Because if you don’t articulate it—I mean, write it…

In all your ways, acknowledge. Acknowledge that you are not enough. Acknowledge that you can accomplish more with others. Acknowledge that there may be a better way. Recognize that your understanding may be limited. Acknowledge, you don’t know it all…

Are you clear on where you are going and what you are trying to achieve? In your family? In your relationships? In your finances? In your department? In your company? Without a clear purpose, our efforts become hap hazard. Life…