People will say to the people who do not watch the news, “you are uninformed”. However, to those of you who are watching the news regularly the facts are “you are misinformed”. We want to believe that the consumption of news media has no effect on us. We make claims that regardless we need to know what is going on …
Creating Positive Change – Start with Your People – Brian Dixon
We can look in our business, our relationships, our careers, our lives in general and say, “things need to change”. None of us want that change to be for the worse, so we try to take control. We decide quite often that if we have the power to change things we will. So we start handing out orders, making edicts, …
When Nobody’s Home – The WHY Behind Your Behavior – Michael Oden
Have you ever said, “why do I do the very thing I do not want to do?” Have you been dealing with addiction? Maybe you recognize that sometimes you find yourself in situations and places that you know are not right for you, but for whatever reason you find yourself there doing the exact same behavior. For most of us …
Actualized Leadership: Meeting Your Shadow & Maximizing Your Potential – William Sparks PhD
I find when it comes to the word “leadership” our eyes and ears tend to perk up. Most all of us at some point in our life is going to “lead” someone, even if that is only ourselves. There are as many theories to leadership almost as there are leaders. So when it comes to books on leadership we either …
Authentic Negotiating – Clarity, Detachment, & Equilibrium – Corey Kupfer
Everyday we negotiate. Maybe we negotiate as part of our business life. Perhaps you are in the midst of negotiating during a career interview. You may be negotiating with your spouse or significant other, or negotiating with a child who doesn’t want to their homework or go to bed. You even negotiate with yourself about the time you get up, …
Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams – Omar L. Harris
It doesn’t matter if it is a sport, a for profit business, a non-profit business, or even a family when it comes to developing a “high performance team” there seems to be some commonalities. The first is we are all pretty aware that all teams go through pretty much the same phases, from forming to storming, to norming, to performing. …
Lessons from the Farm – Essential Rules for Success – Jay Izso
What positive lessons did you learn as a child that you still hold on to today? It seems that so many things that we do as an adult are so directly from things we learned in the first two decades of our life. So often we walk around this world and do not even realize that the things we do …
Decisions- The Power To Overcome Self-Defeating Behaviors – Sean Douglas
Life is not always going to treat us kindly. Sometimes life can be quite cruel, mean, and feel unjustified. And sometimes it is our decisions that create so many of our problems. As it turns out there are really three types of problems we will deal with in life, those that life happens to give us, those that others give …
What Anyone Can Do – Growth and Success -Leo Bottary
We all want to be successful, or more successful, but how does that happen? It is so easy for us to look for “silver bullet” solutions, or “magic pills” to solve our desire for success, but the fact is there really are no “silver bullets’ or “magic pills”, so what is one to do? Leo Bottary has done a plethora …
11 Best Ways to Face Life’s Challenges – Dr. Ken Best
We all will be faced with challenges. The longer we live, the more challenges we get to face. We also live in a world that tells you that “you must be happy”…the marketers present pictures and commercials that convince us time and time again that our happiness is somehow tied to the products or services they want to sell us. …