“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle The word excellence can be daunting. The thought of being in a near constant state of amazingness can seem unrealistic. That being said, if we view excellence as coming from...
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Healthy Mind, Healthy Body
We focus on our physical health. We join a gym. We wear Fitbits. We run. We stretch. We avoid greasy food and dessert. (Well, not always on that dessert part.) But what about our minds? Aren’t they equally as important? Like eating desserts, we indulge our fantasies –...
Secrets to Breathing New Life Into Your Team
As we go deeper into the winter and the excitement of the New Year wanes, teams often need a shot in the arm to get them to a more optimal level of working well together. Here are a few tried and true tips that we’ve seen work powerfully for our clients: 1) Bring in...
Setting Up Systems for a Successful 2015
Did you know that the average American gives up on their New Year’s resolutions within the first 10 days of January each year and that only 8% of people actually achieve the goals they set their sights on at the end of the year? Since many of us make resolutions to...
No Time Like the Present: Start Embracing Your 2015 Goals
While visiting family, I was served a hot beverage in a coffee cup that had the 1997 annual goals of a major company etched down the sides. In reading the list, I wondered how many of them were achieved. I also wondered if there were too many. While its...
Strength of Powerful Network Relationships Part II
Our computer relationship databases can hold thousands of contacts. Yet how many of these contacts have any real social meaning to us or those people stored in our files. Sure, we can send out newsletters, invite thousands of people to visit our blog or even invite...
How Do I Know My Leadership Brand Is Working?
My best clients measure everything. They work with spread sheets. They put together graphs to show their team. They are obsessed with how they are doing, where they are going and how they will know it. One of my clients is exceptional at it. Admittedly, this is...
How Do We Know When Change Needs To Happen?
Who says something has to last forever? It’s our natural thought process to stay with something because: it is safe, it is what we know and what “we have always done”. My belief is that things will work for a while but then it is natural to need to change it up. Yet...
Finding Your Flow
There are few things as satisfying as engaging with your work when you have focus, creativity, clarity for working through challenges and a fine-tuned radar for seeing opportunities. Its energizing be fully present with a project so that you sense yourself existing...
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