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Cool, Calm, and Collected
These are two of my personal affirmations: – I am cool, calm, and collected. – I radiate confidence and composure. Needless to say, given the…
January 15, 2009
In Praise of Fear, or Using the Shark!
(Blog #6 on Implementing Your Life Plan in the New Year) A while back we discussed how motivation breaks down into two basic types: “moving…
January 12, 2009
Discipline = Freedom
I used to see discipline as: – an unwelcome constraint, – a negative, a drag, – the absence of freedom, – something to be fought,…
January 8, 2009
If not now, when?
(The fourth in a series of blogs appealing, beseeching, imploring YOU to design a written life plan for the coming year!) Life happens. Time passes.…
December 29, 2008
What Do You Think Is Impossible?
What do you think is impossible? What do you think is impossible for you to do? To accomplish? To change? To become? To start? To…
December 23, 2008
Excuse Me! Your Life is Waiting!
(Third in a series of blogs urging, begging, pleasing with YOU to turbocharge your existence with a WRITTEN life plan for the coming year!) I think you…
December 22, 2008
Expectations Can Create Reality: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes
Once, some social scientists, as they are wont to do, ran an experiment. They asked 51 women to chat on the phone with men they…
December 17, 2008
Intelligent Criticism, Effective Feedback
How to give useful feedback? How to make a helpful observation that does not make a person defensive? I recently received some highly effective feedback,…
December 16, 2008
Yesterday you said Tomorrow
(The Second in a Series of Blogs Prodding, Pushing, and Poking You to Get Moving on Your Life Plan for Next Year) The clock is…
December 15, 2008
Officers Eat Last
“Stewardship Leadership.” “Servant Leadership.” These terms speak of leadership as a trust, a fiduciary responsibility. At its highest meaning, leadership carries a sense of duty,…
December 9, 2008
Time to START…
Time to START… Time to start what? Time to start thinking about your roles and goals for the coming year. It is mere days until…
December 8, 2008