Good performances don't happen by accident – they're a result of positive and tactical thinking. So train your thoughts
It’s officially summer! School is done. The kids are excited about sprinklers, beaches and long bike rides with friends. Your colleagues are booking time off and your work productivity might be suffering a bit. With the birds chirping and a lawn chair calling your name, it can be really challenging to muster up the motivation…
Life isn't just about getting a medal for participation. It's about achieving your goals. Here are our seven steps to help you accomplish your goals
In modern society, we’ve wandered away from the thought of winning. It has become taboo. All the focus has been put on ensuring that those who don’t place feel just as special for having contributed. However, this flattening of drive seems to have had some unintended consequences – diminishing confidence and persistence. And if you…
Given the high degree of uncertainty about the next few years, here are a few tips to help you retain at least a semblance of sanity as you look to your future
“And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here,” author Neil Gaiman wrote. I’ve been enjoying all the pictures of grad celebrations popping up on social media lately. It’s graduation time – spirits are high and the winds of…
Find your zone, connect to the world, tune into your purpose and then get specific
I recently had the fabulous opportunity to chat with a group of executive administrative assistants on their final day of a national conference. They had spent a few days exploring what it takes to create positive energy for themselves and their organizations. When I met with them, they were elated, excited and maybe even a…
It’s not a magic potion but setting positive goals and using visualization help – if you understand the root of the problem
At a recent dinner meeting, conversation surrounded weight loss and aging. One of the men said he wanted to lose weight. He admitted he didn’t feel very positive about it – he’d been sticking to a spartan diet for months, exercised regularly but just didn’t seem to be able to shift it. He was convinced…
Like death and taxes, storytelling isn’t going to go away. But when we participate in gossip, our character and integrity are on the line
“You will never believe what I just heard about Jane. …” How does a phrase like this grab our attention and pull us in so quickly? Even if we think we’re above all that, it can be difficult to resist hearing a story likely to be a lot more interesting than what we’re doing at the…
Strategies you can use to avoid the swamp of unproductive meetings
Do your days feel like one unproductive meeting after another … and another? Have you noticed how often people get bogged down in the same issues you talked about the last time you got together? You ask yourself: “Why are we going over the same ground again and again?” Somewhere between the positive intentions that people start with and a…
When we’re running from moment to moment, task to task, we lose perspective. Events and circumstances start to feel all-consuming
Are we so afraid of spending time alone with our own thoughts that we find tasks to occupy every moment of our waking day? We must stop consuming our days in this unmitigated busyness. When we’re running from moment to moment, task to task, we lose perspective. Events and circumstances start to feel all-consuming. We…
Generosity of spirit and genuine kindness – it seems so simple but it also seems so essential to peace around the world
Barbara Bush once said, “Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.” I’d love to share a story about how this played out for my husband and I…
Make today the day you pause, make eye contact and explore how to ease conflict and build a more connected community
There will never be a shortage of situations that put people in conflict with one another. From our strong opinions about the environmental impact of pipelines to the economics that drive decision-making. From differences of opinion about in-laws (and outlaws) to parenting to crime prevention and everything in between. Who owns the problem and how…