Goals are clarifying. It’s easy to talk about them and wish for them. The anticipation is the real accelerator in life. Many times, it’s better than achieving the goal itself. When you set a goal, do you let the obstacles deter you? Do you stop? Do you let the challenges derail your progress and your process? If so, it may…
Going slow to go fast works. When you slow down, focus, and simplify, things are smoother. When you focus, you go faster. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Let’s go slow to go fast.
We tend to overestimate the short term and underestimate the long term. If you’ve ever felt like your hair was on fire and waking up was a fire drill, heed the words above. Try ten-year planning. Though I’ve thought of it often, I’ve not sat down until recently to plan out 10 years and think about what each year means,…
Are you a doer? Me too. The world loves a person who will bury themselves for accomplishment. We cosign the deal out of need, lack, and the vacancy in our wholeness (which doesn’t exist). Don’t bury yourself out of lack. Find another way to do only that which feeds your soul. The rest is for someone else.
Disengagement is a thing. When you’re disengaged, it’s often because you’ve lost connection with your purpose. When we think of living purposefully, it’s in the word, purpose fully. If you don’t know your purpose, it’s worth your time to dig in and explore. Without it, you can pass time, yet it can feel shallow, hollow, and redundant. When you’re living…
How do you define success? We all measure it differently. Some say, it’s completing something, and you’d sign up to do it again. Others measure in money, material wealth, possessions, and stuff. Others measure by the accolades and awards they collect, and some measure relationships. How many and the quality are up to the person. Still others measure in the…
Our work and our leadership teams depend on trust. Really, all relationships depend on trust. You can call it psychological safety and many other things, but Patrick Lencioni nailed it when he said the base of all great relationships begins with trust. It seems underwhelming to say, but it’s where it all begins and what determines whether we work through…
Blog 850… the goal is in sight! For those of you playing along, I check in every 50 posts to take a wide-angle balcony look at my learning and progress with my goal of writing 1,000 blogs. I took Seth Godin’s challenge from this blog post and am grateful I did. I agree with him, the first 1,000 are the…
If you’ve worked with us, you know about Rocks. As a student of EOS®, you are well informed about this kind of Rocks. Those 90-day priorities we distill from our V/TO™ to ensure we stay on track as leaders throughout the company. They’re intended to keep us focused on our most important results for the quarter. When we work them, they keep…
I recently had the pleasure of learning with Ella Bell Smith at the Women Presidents Organization conference. Her workshop was both sobering and inspiring. Here are some thoughts to ponder from her: Have you paused to consider followership? In other words, are you worth following as a leader? In what ways are you, in what ways are you not? Are you…