How To Overcome Fear (Part 2 of 2)

From fearful to FEARLESS

girl with a key that says "Fearless"

In a previous blog post How To Overcome Fear (Part 1) I discussed fear as our personal alarm system and attempted to categorize it into a few basic types. If you haven’t read that post, I would highly recommend reading it before moving further. …Continued from the previous post So now that we understand fear a […]

How to Overcome Fear (Part 1 of 2)

Deconstructing, Understanding, and Embracing Fear

Zombie approaching RUN

What would your life be like if you didn’t operate from a place of fear? Or rather allow fear to control you? I find that fear is an often misunderstood emotion, and our relationship to fear is a somewhat complicated one. On one hand fear protects us from danger, but on the other hand, at […]

This Changed The Way I See Time Forever

The 1 Key Question That Will Help You Prioritize Now

Time is Golden

I recently had an epiphany that fundamentally changed the way I see the concept of Time forever. What I came to discover is that Time is an experience that we are unable to control or manage. Time unforgivably passes regardless of our perceived ability (or more accurately, our inability) to manage it. The myth (propagated […]

Why You Want to “Show Up” In Person

10 reasons why you want to show your face in a meeting

Active meeting

If you were to survey anyone about their least favorite aspects of work, one of the top items would likely be meetings. One Harvard Business Review study showed that one organization’s weekly executive meeting had a ripple effect that consumed over 300,000 hours of its employee’s time. As a work-society we spend a lot of time […]

What Do I Do When I’m Feeling Stuck?

11 Strategies For Putting Oil Back Into Our Mental Engine

Brickwall

Have you ever felt stuck mentally, emotionally, even spiritually? If we are self-aware and honest, we can identify with that the feeling. Oftentimes when we feel stuck, it’s difficult to put into words. We feel that something is not quite right, but it’s difficult to identify. Sometimes, feeling stuck comes in the form of writer’s […]

The perception of your work is as important, if not more important, than the actual work itself.

Mark Botros

4 Things You Should Never Do While You’re Sick

And how to get back on your feet when you do.

Hand holding pills

Although it’s rare, when I get sick, boy does it knock me flat on my back. Recently, I was graced with one of the “kid bugs” (kid bugs is a vernacular term used by parents of small children to describe mutant strains of viruses that start, grow, develop, and become infinitely reinforced among the human […]

17 Ways to Prioritize

...when you have no values, goals, or strategic direction

Signs pointing to everywhere

One time, I was in a meeting with six consultants, and our customer asked us to consider an honest but compelling question: “How do we prioritize our projects when we don’t have (or follow) a strategic plan?” We were providing some rather unique consulting services that were in high-demand at an enterprise level. So it […]

What to do if you do get laid off

13 ideas that will keep you in the realm of hope

Gentleman preparing his shoes

It used to be that you could graduate high school, get a job, work at that job for 30 years, and retire into the twilight of your life with a modest pension that would allow you to live out your days in relative financial security. Today – change, complexity, and competition rule our global economy. […]

Your Elevator Speech

How to craft a personal summary that is interesting, memorable, and unique

Man with cup of coffee talking with you

Here’s a very common scenario: You are at a meeting or training class, and you don’t know anyone. The person leading the meeting suggests that the group go around and introduce themselves. This is your first impression moment, and you have 20-30 seconds – if that. What you say next will determine whether you are […]