A’s Hire A’s and B’s Hire C’s
If you are a great leader you are trying to get the best people in your organization because they will lift your organization to new heights. Of course, anyone who leads imagines themselves to be a great leader, or at least the best leader within their scope of influence. However, the test is who they…
Be A Better Person Online
I knew my campaign would be an uphill battle, but my personal fight against hyperbole in conversation and social media appears to be a battle not to be won. Yet that will not stop me from fighting it. Language, honest and exact, is our best chance to continue our republic. Using terms like nazi and…
Build on Solid Ground
Each day we are striving to become our best, but life happens. We get upset. We get frustrated. We get depressed. We allow other people or circumstances beyond our control to have a greater influence over our lives than they deserve. Why is this? It is because we do not build our decision-making processes on…
Stillness and Beauty
Today I saw every tree in the forest with a beautiful coat of thick frost. What was an evergreen was now an ice tree, a dormant hardwood a gentle shimmering diamond sculpture. What caught me as a thought more deeply about this beautiful landscape was that to achieve this pristine ice blanket the forest must…
The Best Way to Improve Your Life In 2021
“Discipline is superior to motivation.” I took this line as my favorite item from a life improvement blog post 100 Tips for A Better Life. Discipline is a choice, whereas motivation is a feeling. If we choose to be disciplined in the small things, we will become disciplined in the large things. I have had…
Consistency In Actions
Consistency is the basis for character. We are not our thoughts, even though they will some day drive our actions. We are not an individual action conveniently placed for others to see how great we are. We are the sum of our actions. We are the difficult decisions rooted in principle. And as this sum…
Endure
“If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.” – Marcus Aurelius Our current moment in time is stretching our limits of what we can deal with and keep our sanity. Many have been distressed for months. Others are feeling the weight of regulations and rules they may or may not agree with begin to crush…
Stewardship
We must pass the best things of our world to the next generations in a form as good or better than we found it. This is stewardship, a form of leadership to last ages, whether a creating family business, a government, or the environment. Stewards are the leaders who recognize timeless values of the organization.…
Let It Be
Let it be. Paul McCartney’s words are soul-refreshing in this time. We can control very little in this world, and as humans, are extremely vulnerable creatures. Yet some of us have had so much go right that it pulls a veil over our thoughts, making us believe we are completely responsible for these successes. Still…
Simplify
During crisis we lose our comfort and convenience. We panic because we have not trained ourselves to endure. As a country we have not had a major disruptive force since arguably World War II. We have become a society of accumulation, not scarcity. Now is the time to change. Make a list of what you…
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