Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks
This is one intellectual man’s journey to a more peaceful life. The key is to accept our limited time, unknowns, and uncontrollable to find peace and productivity. He uses universal truths on time based on insights from history, philosophers, psychologists, and...Gratitude Challenge: Self-Awareness Builds, Sometime Change is Required
Did you know gratitude builds self-awareness? The more grateful you are, the more you know about yourself. Being self-aware is challenging. Being self-aware is challenging because it sometimes demands change. I’d rather keep doing the same thing instead of...Stop Making Goals; First Read This! Time Management/Part 1
Goals are the end toward which effort is directed, as defined by the dictionary. Before you make another goal consider this: 91% of New Year’s resolutions aren’t achieved. Over 70% of projects fail. After fifty years, I discovered the secret to successful goal setting...Stop Making Goals; First Read This/Time Management/Part 2
A sheep in wolf clothing, she called me in the time management workshop I taught. Her manager made her attend because of her perceived poor time management skills. I surprised her. I didn’t teach standard time management, making lists, and prioritizing. I had the...Stop Making Goals; First Read This/Time Management/Part 3
Achieving goals is the point of time management. Successful time management requires you to understand yourself. Your beliefs about time and your style so that you can find, create or adapt a time management system that supports you and the goals you want to...Book Review: The “I” of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being, and Doing
Great leaders need to answer the “Who am I and why and I here?” with conviction, honesty, and purpose that will create the bond of trust that the most powerful actions require, says the author. Why another book on Leadership? Because what leaders do...Book Review: Power of Communication, The: Skills to Build Trust, Inspire Loyalty, and Lead Effectively by Helio Fred Garcia
“If you can’t communicate effectively, you will not lead,” Marine Lieutenant Colonel Rob Riggle says in the forward. To be a great leader, you must be an excellent communicator. The paradox is that we have been communicating our whole lives and are...A Grateful Leader: Mike Foley
Mike Foley, a big guy and ex-football player in his fifties and always happy, says that gratitude was a slow maturing process for him. However, it was a worthwhile one. He is now an entrepreneur and part-time butcher; he loves life and no longer dreads Monday...Things Grateful Leaders Do: Future Thank You Officer
Future Chief Thank You, Officer, Peter Peter believes gratitude is essential and can’t imagine living without it. Four years ago, he created a gratitude practice of identifying people in his life that are important to him. He intended to thank them, either in writing...
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