The mind of an adult is like an unbroken horse. It will go in any direction except the one in which you want it to go. St. Teresa of Avila Affirmation: I have an uncluttered mind. I am free of all random thoughts and distractions. Whatever I choose as my focus becomes the [...]
Education vs Brain usage…
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Stress: Does NOT do a body good
Stress: The confusion created when one’s mind overrides the body’s basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it. Unknown Everyone takes it for granted that stress can have profound effects on your mental health. It can cause you to lose focus, or it can trigger episodes of depression or [...]
Leaders are lifetime learners
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime, but can be revealed in a moment, for it has always lived within each and every one of us. Jonathan Lockwood Huie Leaders, do not possess mindsets that adapt to failure, easily, if at all. Things go wrong, of course, but leaders do not call these things or themselves “failures.” [...]
Knowing yourself: Do you have the right (leadership) stuff?
The core to leadership strategy is simple: To be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Peter Senge It is one of the responsibilities of a leader to be a role model. How can leaders become good to great role models? Becoming the master of your most important domain, you, will help you as [...]
Review: Inspired People Produce Results, @Jeremy_Kingsley
This is a short book that covers a lot of ground. Basically, Jeremy Kingsley has tried to encapsulate for us what makes leaders great, and how they get people to follow them. They do this by being inspiring them. He lays out the characteristics of how inspiration works and how it moves [...]
Guest Post: Don’t Overthink Leadership, by Bill Treasurer
Don’t Overthink Leadership Lots of people lead without ever giving it a thought. Some of these are naturally gifted leaders, people who seem to have been born knowing how to lead the way others know how to play a piano or paint. Others may be terrible leaders but they don’t worry about [...]
Reaching your goals successfully
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby How you choose to define success is entirely up to you. Everyone is busily searching for the key to the secret of success. The secret to success is that there is no secret. Once you have defined what [...]
Musings + Affirmations: I have a giving and generous spirit.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. Barbara Bush Affirmation: I have a giving spirit. I believe that I have been created to help others by giving my time, thoughts and worldly possessions. I give naturally [...]
Success does not come…
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Beware of self-employment myths
Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity. Arthur Pine Have you been dreaming about becoming self-employed, but feel that you do not have the money, the time, the knowledge, or the skills to get [...]
Choices + Decisions = Your Life
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. Stephen Covey Your life is all about the choices and decisions you make. Life is like a road. There are some long roads and some short ones. Some smooth or rocky roads, crooked or straight. In your life you will stumble onto many roads, and a few [...]
Getting beyond your fear of public speaking
There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience Alexander Gregg When someone asks you to speak, do you look and/ or feel like that guy in the [...]
Keeping your motivation primed
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder Everyone wants to do better; well, most people do. But staying motivated takes more that merely saying you favorite affirmations over and over, you must believe them. It means [...]
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