Play a Bigger Game: How Leaders Can Reset Goals and Boost Energy in 2025 Can you remember the exhilaration of working toward a meaningful goal? The focus, drive, and sense of being fully alive when a big goal challenges you? Think back to the goals you’ve achieved. Leaders and professionals [Read more…]
Leadership Lessons from a Overstuffed Camping Trip
So here’s the scene: we’re heading off on a camping trip to Augusta, WA. The car is packed to the hilt, the trailer is bursting at the seams, and somehow there’s still not enough space. New gas cooker? Check. Stand-Up Paddle board? Check. Fishing rods, wetsuits, Chargers… you get the [Read more…]
Boost Your Mindset and Results: The Power of a Daily Gratitude Practice
I’m always amazed at how effective this is…
How to Use Visualization to Achieve Your Goals (Lessons from My Dad)
In this post, I reflect on a powerful lesson my father taught me about goal setting — the importance of vivid visualization. From a childhood memory on horseback in South Africa to a modern-day workshop, I share how involving all your senses makes your goals more real and achievable. You’ll also learn practical steps to create your own vision and turn it into results.
What Kind of Leader Do You Think You Are? And How Self-Beliefs Are Holding You Back
“You’re definitely a morning person,” someone told me recently. Funny enough, on the same day, another person insisted I was not a morning person at all. So, which is it? The truth is—it doesn’t really matter. Some days I choose to rise early; other days I love a good lie-in. [Read more…]
Sacrifice vs selfishness
“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” ~ Napoleon Hill When you get clear on what you want, you become prepared to sacrifice other things to get what you want. Daily we make choices based on our priorities, whether we do this [Read more…]
7 Steps to Success
Do you want answers? Would you like to discover the secret of success? Get clear on what you really, really want! Ask yourself: What is the most important thing to me? If everything else was stripped away, what is the one thing that I absolutely want? Keep it SIMPLE [Read more…]
Keep Watering Your Bamboo Tree
This remarkable tree is different from most trees in that it doesn’t grow in the usual fashion. While most trees grow steadily over a period of years, the Chinese bamboo tree doesn’t break through the ground for the first four years. Then, in the fifth year, an amazing thing happens – the tree begins to grow at an astonishing rate. In fact, in a period of just five weeks, a Chinese bamboo tree can grow to a height of 90 feet.
Gratitude softens the soul…
Gratitude expands the soul, softens the heart and brings joy to life.
Scoopons, Groupons, Living Social or whatever voucher you use!
Do you use Scoopons, or Doupons, or Living social – or Groupons? Or whatever other voucher system is in your area? This morning, our bedroom and my office were turned upside down, to clear the carpet to be cleaned professionally. The guy arrives to clean them – I show him [Read more…]
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