My whole life people have described me as strong. In my early career, with an aspiration for success, I emulated the strength of those in top business positions who were mostly male. The masculine style of leadership that dominated our culture until this century was more about using managerial power over others to get them to do what they wanted (“Do it because I’m the boss and I say so.”), rather than connecting to a …
🥳 Happy New Year! 🥳 My latest article in Brainz Magazine just dropped: 4 Reasons Your Leaders Have Plateaued, Plus What You Can Do About It. You’ve done the hard work of assembling a leadership team of A-players. You’re setting stretch goals, measuring what matters, and compensating your team well. And while your organization is successful, the bolder, grander vision you have for it keeps falling short. You know you need your leaders to push …
Are you living a life you love? Have you uncovered your purpose? The path to answering “YES!” to each of these questions is the same, and it’s outlined in my latest YouTube video. It involves these two critical choices you must make: #1 Choose to be 100% responsible for the outcomes of your life. No blaming circumstances. No blaming others. No excuses. 100% responsibility for the outcomes of your life. #2 Know that whatever pain …
No doubt, 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone. Beyond the pandemic, the vitriolic presidential campaign on both sides, and the social unrest, my family and I went through a private matter that just may have been one of the hardest months of my life. The key word here, though, is through. My family went THROUGH a challenge and came out on the other side a stronger, more aligned, more in love family than …
Exercise is, of course, essential for your health. And if you want to generate high performance results in your life, research shows you should take part in some form of exercise that you enjoy nearly every day. But exercise is not a substitute for meditation. Sure, you may feel similar after both exercising and meditating. Exercise helps close the stress response cycle, it stimulates feel-good hormones such as endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin, and it gives …