It’s pretty ironic. As a kid, I avoided interacting with strangers and felt uncomfortable in front of people who I didn’t know well. By the time I entered the workforce, I was pretty sure that anything in sales was NOT for me. And I did my best to avoid it. This was reinforced in my […]
‘Tis the season of gratitude, does your suck? Are you guilty of these gratitude gaffs? 1. The table is set with the fine china. The family is gathered around. It’s a bona fide Norman Rockwell moment. You collect your thoughts, clear your throat and give thanks for the bounty before you. You might even go […]
I’ve heard on more than one occasion that having a sleek muscled torso with ripped abs is a sign of not having a life. It’s the argument that to do so is to ignore all the other aspects of life worth living for. Or that having a six-pack is the ultimate in vanity. Why work […]
Having spent the last two decades working with individuals and teams to improve performance, I’m constantly amazed that even when people want change and give it lip service, they fall woefully short. It’s usually not because they don’t want to get better. The problems or potential pitfalls are many but four of the biggest obstacles […]
Your success today may actually be giving your future a strangling choke-hold. In fact, I would argue that your past success may be your biggest threat for a bright future. Sounds counterintuitive, I know. The problem is that success breeds contentment and satisfaction. It causes us to feel like we “made it.” And that is […]
We all know we should do it. And there are lots of ways to make it work. So why don’t we do a better job when the productivity of our day is at stake? What am I talking about? Prioritizing; the simple, but often neglected, act of determining what to do and in what order. […]
I am sitting at Gate B3 at the Nashville International Airport. I just spent 50 minutes getting through airport security. The line wasn’t that long; what should have been a 15-minute wait was more than triple that time. While the TSA agents were hardly models of efficiency, there was a bigger problem involved in the […]
Wanderlust is the strong desire to travel and explore the world. I have to admit, I have been bitten by the bug and have spent the past 17 months on an epic adventure on the West Coast. The reasons for embarking on the journey were many as I noted in a previous article, “Why I […]
We tend to think of life in segments of time. You could definitely make arguments for and against this concept. But for the sake of what I’m about to share…I’m going with the “pro” argument. Time gives us very definable periods to gauge activity and progress. As we start the 4th quarter of the year, […]
It’s amazing when you have a B-H-A-G (Big Hairy Audacious Goal), how it can take over. If it’s one you’re excited and passionate about, it’s great. Of course, with all things in life, you have to learn to balance (something that I’ve learned to master exceptionally well after years of utter failure). Well, one of […]
