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 […]

Why your Top Performers are not performing or worse … leaving

8 Strategies to help rock stars shine again

Concert star walking out onto platform

Have you ever seen someone who was once a “rock star”, who now is fallen from grace and glory? Or are you perhaps that person? Taking a long term view, it would seem to me that careers go through times of ebb and flow. There are times when a person is performing at rockstar level, […]

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

In Leadership, the ends do not always justify the means. If you kill your team to achieve a short-term outcome, people will remember and associate you with pain.

Mark Botros

What all Great Projects Have in Common

The 3 Most Important Aspects of Every Well-Run Project

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In my 25 year career, I have led and been a part more projects than I can honestly count in just about every shape, size, scope, and dollar amount. The largest project I ever led personally was a 4 billion dollar project that spanned 2.5 years. I’ve also seen great, well-led projects and poorly-led, rope-a-dope […]

What To Do When Our Mobile Devices Lose Power or Service

7 No-Tech Strategies to Overcome the Death Angel of Boredom When It Comes Near

Man sitting alone in the Wilderness

In a previous post, Why we Need a Holiday From Our Screens, I talk about what we gain when we consciously turn our screens off, including a number of alternatives to spending time on our screens. But what happens when the unthinkable happens – when our mobile device has no service or battery life, and […]

The people we love the most are the people we are the kindest to.

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