Stop, Drop, and Listen

A couple years ago I had to go into work earlier than normal. While sitting in my car at a stoplight, I glanced over at the car next to me. Inside was a young girl animatedly chatting away on her phone. I glanced down at the clock on my dashboard. It was 7:00am. What could…

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Leading at the Speed of Trust

This week I attended the Leading at the Speed of Trust Workshop, based on the best-selling book The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey, son of the late Stephen R. Covey who wrote the Holy Grail of leadership books: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. According to tagline of The Speed of Trust—which…

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3 Simple Questions for Boosting Success

A successful life—however we define it—is something most people want. We want to feel good about our accomplishments. We want to be able to provide both the necessities and the comforts of life for ourselves and our loved ones. We want to feel we are contributing in a meaningful way, that we a making a…

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Prioritize Your Priorities

The word “priorities” is a bit of a misnomer. By definition, a priority is a thing that is regarded as more important than another. If we have a list of important items, logically only one of them can be the absolute most important. We all have lots to do or lots we’d like to do….

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Seek Meaning, Not Pleasure

If you ask the average person what they want most out of life they will usually say, “I just want to be happy.” And that is certainly an admirable goal. Then, if you were to ask them to describe what that happiness looks like, they might say something like, “I’m swinging in a hammock on…

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