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Your Personality is a Blessing or a Curse…
How Can This Be the Case? Let’s just put this right on the table. Most of us are brought up, conditioned, cultured, trained, perhaps even educated to be really really clear on what we are NOT. What we’re not good at, where we are weak, what we don’t do well, how we...
A Shot in the Gray Beats a Dream Hidden Away
Do You Ever Wish Your Life Was a “Walk in the Park?" I work out pretty intensely 6 days a week. My workouts have two distinctly different sections to them: 30-45 minutes of intense body weight resistance training, and then 30 minutes of interval aerobic training on a...
Don’t Buy This Lie or the Excuse
It was All I Could Do to Not Yell "Bull#@*^!" When He Said This.... It was a few mornings ago, and I am in the YMCA willing myself through my workout. I say 'willing myself" because it was a tough morning for me. It was one of my Eeyore mornings that I talk about in 3...
Three Things To Look at When Things Aren’t Working
How Do You Figure Out What to Change? It has been said that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Technically this isn’t true, but practically it hits pretty close to home. The caveat I would add, is given...
How to Lead in the Volunteer Age
No One Has to Follow You This is a hard one to wrap your head around when you have people working for you, isn’t it? But it’s true. You can be the CEO of a company and tell someone to do something, and they can say NO. Of course, there are consequences for them, but...
How to Do More Better:-)
Is This a Grammatical Mistake? No. It’s not. It’s exactly what it says…say it word by word….do more (of your work/life) better (in all capacities). If I said “how to do much better,” that would apply to this article just the same, but it wouldn’t have made me smile as...
How to Build Your Gratitude Attitude
It is Virtually Impossible to be Thankful and Negative at the Same Time. We just aren’t wired that way. It’s been proven in study after study, that those who cultivate an attitude of gratitude are happier. It makes sense when you consider the thankful versus negative...
Why Knowing HOW Won’t Help You Much Initially
You Can’t Youtube WHY I was staying at a friends house this past week as part of a trip to do some leadership training. While I was there, my friend was telling me about some home improvement/rehab stuff he had been doing on some properties he purchased. Being...
Three Things You Can Do to Build Trust With Anyone
You Can Always Measure the Depth of a Relationship by the Degree of Trust Think about it for a second. The people in your life that you have the strongest bonds with, aside from the bond of family, are the people you trust the most. Certainly, you have lots in common...
How to Make a Major Impact on the Performance of Those You Lead
You Have to Help Them See the Forest At the end of last week, I got a real treat. My friend Marc Jessup (one of the Principals of a fabulous, dynamic, growing company here in Eastern North Carolina: Flatlands Jessup Insurance Group, and also a company I have the...
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