If you are going to succeed, you must have the courage to fail, and fail you will. Failure is only feedback that you need to change something. You did something and got an unwanted outcome.
Continue readingTaking the initiative and asking for what you want directly with respect takes courage and vulnerability because you risk hearing the word no.
Continue readingFriday, I flew home from Davis Heating and Air in Rocky Mount Virginia. Chris, the owner, asked me to do two morning sessions on boundaries with his forty people. In the afternoons, I meet with the management team.
Continue readingI allowed someone to triangulate me, but I warned the owner about it in advance.
Continue readingI’ve recently noticed articles about cultures of kindness in different publications. While kindness is good, there is much more. This subject approaches the condition of a person’s heart, and kindness is only a small part.
Continue readingIf so, you might be over-responsible for other people’s responsibilities.
Continue readingA business is a system of relationships, and individuals in the company system come from another system called the family system. The family systems from where these individuals come from are all different, and each family system has its toxic patterns.
Continue readingAre you doing your job obligated to do so or because you have a responsibility to your employer?
Continue readingMatt Koop, creator of The the New Flat Rate, and I were talking, and our talks tend to gravitate toward spiritual things.
Continue readingI disagree with the concept of taking massive action steps. It’s not huge strides that make the difference. It’s the small, good habits repeated that compound over time and lead to success.
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