Talents, Skills, and Being Extraordinary! People often use the words talents and skills interchangeably, as if they had the exact same meaning. I believe that talents and skills are different. Talents encompass your strengths, your brilliance, and your genius. By genius, I mean in its original form found in the word – genie which means…
My Worldview: It’s What I Make It Mean! Sometimes a quote comes along and just smacks me upside the head. That happened recently when I read this quote from Richard Rohr, “Most of us do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.” I think this is profound, because it quickly…
Gratitude…Relatively Speaking! One of the things I love most about Albert Einstein is that, at times, he was able to to simplify some of the most complex questions or dilemmas we face in our lives. He said this about how our worldview, “One of the most important decisions we make is whether we believe we…
7 Minutes To Live? Okay so it sounds like an absurd question? And yet, I have been asked this question once before. It happened when I working with an amazing woman and mentor of mine by the name of Glenna Salsbury. As part of the process, I had to answer a few very poignant questions.…
Leadership Isn’t a Reward for Performance, It is a Calling! The way most organizations choose a leader is to promote a good performer. Even though they may lack the skills, talent, or even the desire to lead. In other words, leadership is a reward for great performance. We take our top producers, promote them, and…
Lessons From a Courageous Leader There are leaders…and then there are Courageous Leaders A number of years ago there was a story circulating on the internet about a U.S. Navy SEAL by the name of Michael Anthony Monsoor who was killed during the Iraq War on September 29, 2006. The story goes that his platoon…
How To Play a Real Game of Follow the Leader Follow the leader is a game many of us played when we were children. The rules are simple: do what the leader does or get kicked out of the game. The last person standing wins, and they become the new leader. Sounds simple, sounds like…
Extraordinary Love: Loving Others (Part III) Unfortunately, most people learned how to do or to be in relationships based on the relationships and behaviors that were modeled for them as they grew up. Some folks had great modeling and some folks … well, not so much! Regardless of what was modeled for you the important…
Extraordinary Love: Loving Self I don’t know that many of us were taught as children to love ourselves in a healthy way. The programming we receive as children teaches us that the love and acceptance of others is more important than the love and acceptance of ourselves. I believe there is a stigma attached to loving…
You Are Powerful Beyond Measure … We were all given the most powerful gift … the ability to determine what we think and therefore what we make things mean. And yet, most folks are wasting this incredible resource because they are all to busy trying to make themselves right and everyone else wrong or themselves…