Many of you are like me in that you go at your routine six or seven days a week for months on end and the wonder why you’re felling run down and are not as creative or productive as you once were. When this occurs, your mind and body are telling you that it’s time…
Unforeseen circumstances that life sometimes throws at us can derail our best laid plans. When this happens we can either choose to make the best of the situation or we can play the victim and feel sorry for ourselves. This is where the expression, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” comes from. Recently, a…
The above quote is advice from Eleanor Roosevelt on how to overcome fear. As a child, she was consumed with fear and self-doubt. Feeling she was a disappointment to her parents, she dedicated herself to overcoming her fears. Her success at doing so set the stage for her to become an extremely successful American First…
Most of us have been in situations where we’ve had to choose between doing the right thing and doing something that would compromise our integrity. Furthermore, some of us have learned the hard way that compromising our integrity by doing something we know is wrong can have serious consequences. A case in point is former…
USA Today recently commented on the last episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show. The article Oprah as saying, “I’ve spoken to nearly 30,000 people on this show, and all 30,000 had one thing in common: a need for validation.” Validation reinforces a positive sense of worth in people and makes them feel really good about…
I just returned from a trip to Bogota, Columbia where I gave a presentation on my new leadership model to a Latin America business forum. I stayed at a wonderful hotel that was part of a Columbian hotel chain and I was the only person staying there who wasn’t fluent in Spanish. When I arrived…
So says Mary Bernard, deputy director of the National Institute on Aging in an article the recently appeared in USA Today. She went on to say, “With all the gains we’ve made over the years allowing people to live longer, it would be nice if more people took advantage of exercise to improve the quality of…
All of us like to be on the receiving end of kind acts, but we tend to forget that other people like to be on the receiving end as well. Our acts of kindness can impact other people in a number of ways – sometimes they brighten their day, sometimes they make their day and…
A friend of mine started a new job about a month ago. The first week he was on the job, he received half a dozen emails from his new coworkers telling him things like, “So glad you’re a member of our team,” “I really enjoy working with you,” and “Happy to have you on board.”…
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal cited research that showed our social networks—family members, friends and acquaintances we regularly interact with—strongly influence how we feel. For example, when one person is happy, the members of their social network are 25% more likely to be happy. Furthermore, this influence can even spread though online…