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In your everyday hustle and bustle, are you being a respectful leader?
We live in an age where busy is the norm for most leaders and even families. However, in the midst of your busyness, are you giving and getting respect from the people in your life? Does your family respect you? Do the people at your job respect you?
Read MoreBelieve it or not, everyday there is always a reason to celebrate as a leader. A wonderful trait of great leaders is their ability to celebrate life.
How common is it to hear people complaining about life? Just listen to the people around you. Are they celebrating life or complaining about life?
Read MoreIt is impossible to lead people when bitterness is in your scope of leadership. It is very hard to nurture and develop any relationship with bitterness. Bitterness is defined as a lack of sweetness. It is also defined as anger or disappointment at being treated unfairly. Have you been treated unfairly at some point in your life? How did you handle that situation?
Read MoreHave you ever experienced any intense failures in your life? How did you handle it?
Every great leader some how understands how to take lemons and make lemonade. Today, let’s talk about a great leader who experienced failure that helped shape and solidify his legacy.
Read MoreI believe we would all agree that we like being in control. The only problem with that is we only can control our lives.
As leaders, it is quite a natural feeling to want to control everything. However, the greatest leaders are all aware of their limitations.
Read MoreHow important is constructive criticism? How valuable is constructive criticism?
Constructive criticism should be important to everyone, but especially leaders. Constructive criticism is a key component to our development as a leader.
Read MoreMany people are searching for ways to become a better leader. Matter fact, most leaders want to be great. As leaders, we may never voice this fact, but when we think about it, who wants to be less than their best?
Read MoreWhat would your life look like without limits? Is the sky the limit for you? How can you take your life to the next level?
Read MoreThere are many traits that separate good leaders from great leaders, but there is one exceptional trait that makes a leader great.
How would your life or business be different if you or your team members possessed great leadership?
Read MoreWhen was the last time you asked for help? Do you accept the fact that you need help?
Leaders are great about recruiting the right people to help them in their journey to make a difference in our world. It is great to ask the right people for help, but how many times are you asking God for help?
Read MoreI know we cannot please everyone and people are going to think what they want about you. This is all true, but we as leaders have to make sure we are doing our best to intentionally influence people the right way.
Read MoreLeaders are often viewed as perfect. Followers and others from the outside looking in sometimes make them out to be superhuman. But these thoughts and feelings are far from being the truth. Leaders are human.
Read MoreThere are so many things we have learned from this amazing speech. These hopeful and inspirational words came during a time of difficulty. If you have a few minutes, take some time to read or listen to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
His dream was not only for blacks, but also for all races and ethnic backgrounds.
Read MoreLife has a way of making us or breaking us. One thing you can be sure of in this life is its unpredictable nature. However, too many times we focus on the unpredictable nature rather than the way we respond to the uncertainties of life.
Read MoreMy family and I watched an interesting play a few days ago, which sparked some thoughts for today’s blog. Everyday we play a role in this big production called life. We are not acting, but we are just carrying out our daily responsibilities.
What are your daily responsibilities?
Read MoreLike it or not, we are all getting older. Whether you are the six, 26, 36, or 76 years old, you are getting older every second you continue to live. The one thing we can’t control in life is time.
Read MoreAs with anything in life, leadership takes years of hard work. There are some lessons you will learn quicker than others, but overall great leadership takes time. More importantly, it takes you taking control of your own leadership.
How are you developing your leadership?
Read MoreTaking things for granted is a commonality in today’s society. It is easy to get caught up in the fast paced nature of our current culture. We are all guilty, but is it costing you your leadership?
Read MoreIt would be nice to deal with only positivity, but life is about dealing with both positive and negative. Just as a car battery, we need positive and negative to move forward in life.
Read MoreNo matter where we are in life, we all can get better. Many times we try to “reinvent the wheel” to grow our businesses and ourselves by focusing on our external outcomes, when all we need to do is fine-tune a few things internally.
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