What Causes You to Make an Important Change? You could consider this for your life in general or for your business life, it really doesn’t matter because the cause/effect/result/significance is the same. You either make changes or you suffer the consequences of not...
“How do You Handle People of Different Generations?” This is a question/challenge that comes up often in leadership training workshops. And for good reason. There is a natural gap between generations that tends to breed a “we” versus “they” kind of attitude, and can...
I Think Littering is a Despicable Act. Living on the water, I am consistently picking up bits of trash that I find in the water or on the shoreline. Anything I see that is not biodegradable and that I can physically deal with, I gather. Fortunately, it appears that...
Sabotage is Defined as the Deliberate Attempt to Damage, Destroy, or Hinder a Cause of Activity. Based on this definition, it would be easy to say “I would never deliberately do this to myself” and have full conviction that your statement is true. But thinking it’s...
It May Be Cliché That People Often Quit Right Before the Breakthrough... But that doesn't make it any less true. We always have a choice in life. When we are struggling, worn-out, frustrated, overwhelmed, and just plain don't feel like we can continue, we can choose...
Outside of Your Health, Nothing is More Important Than the People in Your Life. This is a foundational principle in 3 Circles Living, but it’s also a simple reality. All you have to do to prove this is consider loss for a second. You could lose material things and it...
Life Doesn’t Always Feel Very Fair, Does It? There are continuously things going on that we have very little control of. We can’t control the weather, other people’s choices and actions, what situation we are born into, what’s going on in the economy, what our DNA...
I Believe 100% That Helping Others is the Sustainable Way to Help Yourself When It Comes to Business. Think about it. In simple terms, the products and/or services that you work with have to fill a need, satisfy a desire, or in some other way add value to someone or...
Values are Our Ultimate Boundary Lines and Motivators Whether We Acknowledge Them or Not. When I teach, sometimes I’ll draw the curve of climbing towards an achievement (goal). Alongside of this, I will then show the curve that runs next to it of who you are becoming...
Listen, Pause, Ask… This is such a simple, effective formula. And yet, it’s not very common in practice. Instead, what is more often occurring is: Hear, and then interrupt. I differentiate listening and hearing, because they are in fact different. Hearing is a gift....
