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Stress And Why Its Important

Posted by on April 21, 2014

I hear it said all the time there is good stress and bad stress. I have to admit I have not reached the point where I appreciate the good type because of being overwhelmed by the bad. This post by John Maxwell was a helpful reminder of the value of stress in helping us as leaders grow and become more effective:

“To live stress-free would be to deny our responsibility as leaders. Stress accompanies growth. We have to accept that all worthwhile change, every amazing transformation and renewal, brings about temporary stress.

For example, think about an expectant mother.”

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You've Offended Someone, Now What?

Posted by on March 28, 2014

There is at least one absolute reality in life and that is I am going to say something that clearly offends someone. It’s clearly most painful when it happens at home but its difficult in every other relationship as well. The hard part is sometimes I don’t even know I crossed the line and other times I just don’t care. Mark Merrill has some wise insight in this post:

“Let’s face it, most of us don’t want to hear that we’ve done something wrong. We don’t want to admit that we’ve hurt someone with our words or actions. But when we speak 16,000 or more words a day, we’re bound to offend people more easily than we’d like to admit.”

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How Do You Know When You Are Successful

Posted by on March 19, 2014

How tragic it would be for anyone at the end of their life to realize they had done many things well but they were the wrong things that did not matter. If you don’t have the courage to take the time to define what success really means for you then someone else will gladly do it for you. John Maxwell has some great thoughts on helping you answer this critical question:

“When will you be successful? If you’re like most people, what comes to mind is someday—somewhere off in the future, when you’ll suddenly wake up and think, “I made it! I’m a success!” That’s how most unsuccessful people see success: as something to strive for and hope to reach “someday.”

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Connecting The Clock And The Compass In Life

Posted by on February 17, 2014

The battle between the urgent and the important has never been more difficult to manage. We are either prioritizing our schedule or scheduling our priorities and we better know the difference. John Maxwell in this excellent post tries to marry the two concepts into a workable plan:

“Time waits for no man.” You’ve probably heard that saying. And it’s true; time marches on, and it’s up to us to keep up with it. We need to be conscious of the clock, or we’ll never make any progress toward our goals. But I believe there’s more to success than reaching goals. True success comes from significance: doing things that matter…things that last after we’re gone.

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7 Ways To Fight Fatigue As A Leader

Posted by on February 10, 2014

Margin is defined as the difference between the demands placed upon your life and your capacity to meet them. There has never been a time when we have had less margin in every area of our lives. You must determine what increases your margin and maybe even more importantly what takes it away. This post by Ron Edmondson was very helpful to me:

“I hear someone say every day “I’m so tired”. It’s epidemic it seems. There appears to be a lot of fatigue in our world these days. I know it’s true of those in ministry. Someone asked me how to deal with the issue, besides the simple answer of rest.”

Stop reacting and moving toward burnout. Read More …

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How To Reach Your Leadership Potential

Posted by on February 7, 2014

There is no doubt if you want to reach your potential that you are going to have to be willing to pay the personal price to constantly improve and change. However, your potential is completely connected to the team of people you work with every day and sometimes we forget that. John Maxwell hits the nail on the head again in this post:

“Leaders are never self-made. If you want to go to the highest level, you can only do so with the help of others. The people closest to you determine your success or failure. Among the many decisions leaders make, one of the most important involves choosing the right companions.”

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Why You Need To Set Personal Goals

Posted by on January 15, 2014

We live in the reality of smart goals and clear objectives in our corporate life. Strangely, very few people value that same leadership discipline when it comes to their personal life. If we believe its ” smart” at work why would we not value the process even more for the people we care about the most? This was a helpful post on this important subject:

“One mark of high-achievers is goal-setting. Most of the successful people I know make it a priority to place targets at various points in the coming year and shoot for them.

You might already be working on your list of goals now. It could be increasing your income, launching a product, or starting a new business.

All that’s good. Go for it. But don’t neglect the areas you’ll regret the most if you fail to give them your attention.”

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5 Questions When Attempting Life Change

Posted by on January 3, 2014

It is indeed a sad day when we realize that a worthy goal we set months ago has not been successfully accomplished. Usually for me it’s not the goal or even my motivation at the time but the process I put in place to accomplish the goal is flawed. This post by Ron Edmondson gives some great insight:

“Sadly, people end each year no better than they end any other year, because they continue to repeat the same mistakes and live out the same bad patterns and habits they have always lived.

If you want to make genuine, sustaining changes, consider your answers to the following five questions. For best results, write your answers to these questions on paper. There is a certain finality of purpose when you invest time and energy recording them.”

How To Reach Your Goals In 2014

Posted by on January 1, 2014

It never ceases to amaze me how many great ideas I have and how many sincere commitments I make only to be reminded a few months later that nothing really changed. We are often emotionally moved but rarely permanently changed and there are some practical reasons why. Carey Nieuwhof has some thoughts that will help all of us as we start the new year:

“Chances are you are already thinking about your goals for 2014.

And maybe you’re already wondering whether you’re actually going to hit them or not.

Why is that so many of us set out to accomplish something but fail to do as much as we’d hope?

The answer is simpler than you think.

It involves a dynamic few people talk about. But once you see it, things can begin to change. Radically.”

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5 Ways To Deal With Emotional Pain

Posted by on December 11, 2013

The one thing we all have in common is that at some point in time other people are going to hurt us. Most of the time we either stuff those painful emotions or dump them in a rage on someone else. There is a better way to deal with them and Ron Edmondson helps us all:

“What do you do with pain? You’ve been injured. It wasn’t fatal, but it hurt. In this post, I’m talking about emotional pain. The fact is emotional pain often hurts more than physical pain. It certainly can last longer. All of us have experienced emotional pain. Some more than others.

What do you do with emotional pain?”

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