I didn’t feel my best last week. I had gotten a lack of sleep, and my diet didn’t help either. To be honest, my sleep has been on a steady decline since the birth of my first child 5 ½ years ago.
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We are all role players. Regardless of your role--in your home, on your team, or inside your organization, we can all be stars in our own roles. Additionally, even a superstar has a role to play.
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Grinding has become all the rage. When rappers, golfers, and corporate America use the word, you know it has some legs. Grind has become an expectation. And while grinding can be effective as a short-term spark, I believe it is causing many to burn-out. It’s simply effort on steroids. An overdose of grit.
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While working with an executive client a few months ago, a revelation hit both of us like a ton of bricks when I looked at him and said,
“You are great at winging it, but you won't be great if you always wing it.”
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Comparing scars is not healthy. It leads to a slippery slope of going tit-for-tat with no productive light at the end of the tunnel. We’ve all been there.
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People seem “small” from far away. The pandemic has reminded me of that. It’s been easy to judge a friend or relative who is approaching life differently these days. Stories run amok inside my head. But underneath my stories, if I really look deep, are simply assumptions.
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A great performance is one of the best feelings in the world. However, it's a slippery slope to believe that great performance = success.
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Today is my birthday. I have always loved birthdays. For me, it’s a time to celebrate. A time to bring people together. A time to smile. A time to laugh. A time to feel grateful. I’ve never been shy about it. I find the older I get, the more I cherish the opportunity.
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Just be positive. Think happy thoughts. See the world as half full. Ever get annoyed when someone gives you that advice? I know I do. Thinking positively often seems half-baked, especially when we are facing a daunting challenge. But even beyond that, we are not wired to be positive all of the time.
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I have never worked with a person or organization that didn’t have values. Some of these values are clearer than others, but all people and organizations have them. Yet, something I have come to realize is that the rank-order of values matters just as much, if not more, than the values themselves.
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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the Baby Boomer generation (those who were teenagers and in their 20s during the 1960s)?
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I started my podcast in 2017. The podcast was called “Beyond the Surface” and the goal was to dive deep with elite performers about their journey. As I started getting beneath the surface with my guests, a common theme emerged: time after time the guests shared stories about intentional actions that they took to get to where they wanted to go.
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I care what others think of me. I always have. And for many, caring about what others think of them gets in the way. It holds them back. They get so concerned with how others perceive them that they don’t take action.
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Are you often considered “young” in your profession? I know I have been labeled “young” by many throughout the past 15 years of my career. I’d like to share some of what I have learned during that time.
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I enjoy recognizing patterns. Connecting dots. I recently started noticing a pattern that I want to share with you.
The best content, whether it’s a speech, an article, or a presentation follows a three-step process. This was sparked from Simon Sinek’s popular Start With Why concept, and then again after reading Suneel Gupta’s book Backable.
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Transformation is a journey, not an event.
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What do we do when the imposter rears its ugly head?
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Ever feel like an imposter? Like you don’t belong? It’s an uncomfortable feeling; that pit in our stomach or those racing doubts inside our head. We shouldn’t be here. Here’s the good news: I’ve yet to meet someone who hasn’t felt like an imposter.
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Ever since Susan Cain wrote the bestselling book Quiet: The power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking it seems as if being an introvert has become in vogue.
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Human beings are complex. We have multiple selves. We can hold two things at once and switch our thinking quickly. It’s what makes the human experience so profound and allows for our capacity to see multiple possibilities.
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