“Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It’s really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.”                                                                                                   

John M...

"Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

 --Shakespeare

I pulled out a book by Wayne Dyer, "The Power Of Intention," because I'm going over my 2025 goals.  I've also been writing about anxiety and leadership, so I don't think i...

“Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated d...

“The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.”

    --Napolean Hill

The best things in life are written in the margins.”

  --Christa Sterken

                                                                                                                                       
 In today’s world, margin is more essent...

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”  

-- Phyllis Diller

 
How important is humor?  Don’t ask a humor researcher because they are already fighting an uphill battle to get the respect they deserve.

Seriously, with all the interesting stu...

"Employees could be struggling...that's a leadership issue...we have the solution."

--Perry Holley 

This morning, I listened to a Maxwell Leadership podcast about "The Great Detachment," which provided eye-opening insights into the challenges...

“A New Year, a New You is possible. Decide who you want to be and go after that. "

 —Jan McDonald

January 10th is National Quitter's Day; the day that most people abandon their New Year's Resolutions. 

Wow. We don't often keep our resolutions. Wh...

"𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐬."

--Anonymous

𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥. When you put different people together from different backgrounds, with different expectations--well...sometimes it's hard to know how ...

"The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search."

--Ernest Dimnet

The leadership Law of Reflection teaches us that learning to pause allows growth to catch...

"When you let go, you create space for something better.”

--Anonymous

I love fall. It's one of the most beautiful and mysterious seasons. We can look at the exact same kind of trees all in a row and some of the leaves have turned and some haven't. ...

"Beauty rescues...because it is merciful, comforting...it heals, restores, revives, renews." 

--John Eldridge

I'm reading a book by John Eldridge called, "Get Your Life Back." The book is about the mad pace and the number of demands on our life....

"I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life."

                                                                            --John Maxwell 

I w...

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

                                                                                                                                        --C.S. Lewis...

 “Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.”

                                                                                                                                            --Proverbs

There’s one thing I...

"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."

--Thomas Berger
 
 

Leadership is about influence and relationships.  When the leadership level is high, the leader is able to cast the vision, set the strategy and because of ...