The Magic of Deliberate Practice
Have you ever progressed more slowly than you’d prefer? You might feel that you’re putting in more time and effort than the next person, but you can’t seem to get ahead. Science suggests that the road to becoming an expert is found through deliberate practice. Scientists believe that this is all that’s required to become
Blessings surround me every day.
Every moment of every day, I see endless blessings around me. I consider everything associated with life to be something special. When I look into the eyes of my laughing children, I feel blessed to share that joy. I know that many others may not be able to experience that. I treasure every opportunity to
Uplift Your Mood With These 6 Gratitude-Building Strategies
Most of us are constantly under pressure and on the go with our fast-paced lifestyles. It\’s only natural for us to occasionally feel worn out or even a bit down from time to time. The good news is that something as simple as refocusing your attention from your challenges to acknowledging the things that you
Top 10 Ways Gratitude Enhances Your Life
Learn to show gratitude and you will find more things to be grateful for in life. Abundance surrounds you in many ways. Regardless of your station in life, there are many things that gratify you. What are you thankful for? Take a moment to ponder them. Consider the ways that having gratitude makes your life
Affirming Your Gratitude Can Bring Peace to Your Life
What do you have to be thankful for? Starting your day off with some gratitude affirmations is a great way to remind yourself of all the wonderful things you have in your life. When you repeat aloud these affirmations of gratitude, you energize yourself and gain the courage to face the day and all of
Must Learn Focus
Where focus goes energy flows. Have you ever wondered why you get the results you are getting? It is really quite simply, that is what you focused on. People do not want to believe they are responsible for the bad things that happen to them but if you are honest and look at what they
Who Are You? 14 Self-Knowledge Questions to Ask Yourself
The greatest blind spot we all have is ourselves. We don’t know ourselves that well. We certainly don’t see ourselves the way others do. Truly knowing yourself might be one of the greatest challenges you’ll ever face. But it’s a challenge worth pursuing. Knowing yourself better has so many benefits. You become better at managing
You are a creator
Being a divinely created being you have within you the ability to create. This is not limited to physically building items but includes creating the life you truly want. Through thoughts we can attract what we want in life. You need a desire, a picture and the willingness to work. Once you understand this process
Desire
I have heard and read many times, if you want to achieve a goal share it with others so that you are now accountable and committed. Once it is public others will help you to achieve the desired outcome. Observing human behavior, it seems when you have a huge dream you are wanting to achieve,
What changed for me?
I remember reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki back in 2000. It was a unique way of thinking for me. I was raised in a family where no one had ever gone to college and only my mother had graduated from high school. I never knew my birth father and live back and
Reap What You Sow
Now I am confident this is not the first time you have heard the saying, “you reap what you sow.” This has been taught for centuries and can be found in all kinds of books and scriptures. The basis of you reap what you sow is what you give comes back to you in like
Money Is Important
Understanding the laws of the universe are important. Understanding how to make money is needed education in the world, the sad fact is that not one person in ten does. Ninety-five people out of a hundred will simply settle for whatever they get, wishing they had more all the way from the cradle to the
We go to together like…
If you started singing like Danny and Sandy graduating from Rydell High you are not alone. Funny how a couple of words will do that to our minds. Collaborate instead of compete is what I want to share this morning. I love to compete, in fact when I took the Strength Finder 2.0 quiz my
Rules For Being Human
The following is written by an unknown author, however it contains sometimeless jewels of information that are worth passing on.It is titled, ‘Rules For Being Human.’ You will receive a body. You may likeit or hate it but it will be yours forthis time around. You will learn lessons. You are enrolledin a full-time informal
What are you thinking?
What are you thinking? No really … what are you thinking? Interestingly enough, most people don’t think. You see, mental activity does not constitute thinking. This is an important distinction to make. As you start to look into what it is you’re thinking and how you’re thinking you will undoubtedly find that your thinking is very
Someday…
Fill in the blank. Someday I will …. What are you waiting for? We all have plans and dreams that can come true if we will just take action. Start today by writing down what you want. Be specific. Give your self and deadline. Now make a list of at least 20 things you need
5 conversations
In the book \”It\’s the Manager\” they discuss the 5 conversations to improve a company culture and work environment to increase employee engagement. 1. Role and Relationship Orientation: This typically last 1-4 hours once a year where managers define what success looks like in the individual\’s role and how their work relatives to their coworkers\’
Vulnerability Leadership
In \”Good to Great\” we learn of the Level 5 leader. One whom is both humble and exhibits professional will. Humility is more about attitude of accomplishment rather than submissiveness. The pursuit of humility in this case means it is more about the company or groups success than the individual. Professional will meaning you will
Quit Lying to Yourself
“It is fairly common for people who don\’t get what they want to provide justifications—and even lie to themselves—by minimizing how valuable success is to them. It\’s easy to spot this trend in our society today within entire demographics and population segments. You can read it in books, hear it in church, and see it
\”There are no bad teams, only bad leaders.\”
http://www.businessinsider.com/former-navy-seals-no-bad-teams-only-bad-leaders-2016-9 This is such a great example of a true concept. Good to Great calls it the mirror and the window.
Can you be the best?
“If you cannot be the best in the world at your core business, then your core business cannot form the basis of your Hedgehog Concept.” Excerpt From Good to Great Jim Collins What will your specialization be and how can you be the best at it to produce your Hedgehog Concept?
Discipline
“The more an organization has the discipline to stay within its three circles, with almost religious consistency, the more it will have opportunities for growth.” Excerpt From Good to Great Jim Collins
Mirror and window
“Level 5 leaders look out the window to attribute success to factors other than themselves. When things go poorly, however, they look in the mirror and blame themselves, taking full responsibility. The comparison CEOs often did just the opposite—they looked in the mirror to take credit for success, but out the window to assign blame
Good is the enemy…
Do you settle for good enough? \”Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives,
The Stockdale Paradox, Good to Great
In Good to Great, Jim Collins references The Stockdale Paradox. It is named after admiral Jim Stockdale, who was a United States military officer held captive for eight years during the Vietnam War. Stockdale was tortured more than twenty times by his captors, and never had much reason to believe he would survive the prison
Most valuable asset…
“The old adage “People are your most important asset” is wrong. People are not your most important asset. The right people are.” Excerpt From Good to Great Jim Collins
BE INTERESTED RATHER THAN INTERESTING
“Another way people fail to listen carefully is to be too concerned with being interesting themselves, rather than being interested in the person they’re listening to. They believe the route to success is to constantly talk—showing off their expertise or intelligence with their words and comments. The best way to establish rapport with people and
A climate where the truth can be heard
Lead with questions, not answers. Leading from good to great does not mean coming up with the answers and then motivating everyone to follow your messianic vision. It means having the humility to grasp the fact that you do not yet understand enough to have the answers and then to ask the questions that will
Always looking to improve
“Leaders should never be satisfied. They must always strive to improve, and they must build that mind-set into the team. They must face the facts through a realistic, brutally honest assessment of themselves and their team’s performance. Identifying weaknesses, good leaders seek to strengthen them and come up with a plan to overcome challenges. The
Do what is right…
Zig Ziglar says often, “if you do what you have to do when you have to do it, there will come a time that you get to do what you want to do when you want to do it.” This has proven to be true across the test of time. When we put away selfish
No place for blame
“If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.” ― Jocko Willink, The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win One of my favorite
Habits equal your systems
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” ― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones The way you will achieve any goal will depend on the daily rigor you build into your systems. Through these you
Resilience by DR. RICK HANSON, PH.D
Inner resources are like superpowers: they increase abilities, create greater success, improve quality of life, and make you more effective. Of all the inner resource superpowers at your disposal, the ability to learn is the most powerful because it allows you to cultivate and grow all of the other inner resources you desire. Each time
Argue Less and Listen More
Are we listening or arguing? “A New York photographer I once met traveled all over the world doing expensive location shoots for big-name clients like Revlon and Lancôme. At one point he shared with me how he would give clients exactly what they had asked for, then be mystified when they didn’t like the end
Take accountability for everything…
Take accountability for everything is used so often it loses any real effect in most peoples lives. Pull out a sheet of paper and think of all of the challenges or problems in your life in the last 24 hours. Were you kept up late because of something, did you eat something not on your
Why do you do what you do?
Have you ever tried to figure out why you do what you do? For me, I wonder why I skip a work out or eat the double cheeseburger when trying to control my weight. Maybe when I know something has to get done but I put it off because something else looks more fun. We
W.O.R.R.Y.
Where Objects Reflected on Reoccur in Your life Why worry and just bring more of what you do not want into your life. Focus on what you want, act as if it is so and you will see worry is not worth the effort.
Commitment to greatness
“I believe that life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the
THE SUPREME COURT OF YOUR MIND
“This can be swiftly taught in very few words: virtue is the only good; there is no certain good without virtue; and virtue resides in our nobler part, which is the rational one. And what can this virtue be? True and steadfast judgment. For from this will arise every mental impulse, and by it every