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A Goal Revolution: One Thing We Need to Do
Forget about New Year’s resolutions. It’s time for a goal revolution. Let’s all pick one thing and finish the year strong!
Preventing Panic: How to fight against a feeding frenzy
Preventing panic is a leadership challenge. A poor leader pours fuel on the fire, a great leader does everything they can to contain it.
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
It’s tough to know what to say in a crisis situation. Let’s be leaders who show up when things get hard. Here’s what to say when you don’t know what to say.
5 Ways We Are All Alike
As Maya Angelou once wrote, “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” Eric Torrence agrees, and identifies 5 ways we are all alike.
Please Offend Me: Why We Want to be Offended
Why do many of us watch, follow, seek out, or otherwise pursue things that offend us? One theory: sometimes being offended feels kind of good.
Are You Taking This For Granted?
Life zips by and it’s easy to forget all the incredible things we’ve been given. Now’s the time to stop and ask yourself, are you taking this for granted? It’s never to late to appreciate what’s around you.
The 6 Stages of Graduation
Whether you are donning the cap and gown this season, chances are you are either approaching a graduation or had one in the not too distant past.
Pushing Past the Fear of Looking Stupid
There’s a fear we all share, more frightening than FOMO. How do you cope when you face the fear of looking stupid? Here are 3 things to keep in mind.
Fighting Analysis Paralysis
While I have always been an over-thinker, there are some moments or seasons where this tendency is on hyper-drive. Sometimes it is late at night, where I find myself doing play-by-play on the events of the day, wondering if I handled everything right. Other times it happens when I am facing a difficult decision and…
Seven Ways to Stand Out in 2017
What would it take to make 2017 a remarkable year? What would it look like for this year (and even for us) to stand out in a significant way over the next 12 months? Sometimes we think standing out means making a viral video, achieving celebrity status, or doing something crazy to get noticed. However,…
The Lost Art of Anticipation
Every Christmas morning, my dad had a rule: no presents till after 6:30 a.m. Looking back at it today, that seems very reasonable; but when I was six, it was exasperating. Inevitably, I would wake up at 4:30 a.m., unable to go back to sleep. Two excruciating hours later, my brother and I would run…
When Labels Lie
It is not a good time to be a pollster. Up until Tuesday, November 8, the presidential election felt less like an expression of democracy and more like a sporting event, complete with quarter by quarter updates on who was “up” and by how much. We even had a probability percentage on the likelihood of…