Thought for the day
Figuring out who you are is the easy part; being who you are is the challenge.
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Reminiscent of the biblical parable, what would you do with $1,440 if I gave it to you today? Invest it, spend it, or stick it in the bank? What would you do if I gave you $1,440 every day? Well my friends, you do get 1,440 every day – not in dollars but in minutes. [...]
Do you have a bad connection?
I hosted a software entrepreneur this morning. He had contacted me requesting an opportunity to demo his product to a small group of small and medium-sized businesses. He showed up an hour early to make sure he had plenty of time to work through any IT glitches that might show up. Sure enough, after everything [...]
Not a resolution!
As I mentioned just last Friday in the Weekend Reader, I have never been a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. This make sound strange coming from a “personal excellence” advocate. I’m not against resolving to change for the better, nor do I deny the strong image of a fresh start the New Year brings. [...]
How big do you want to be?
I talk to entrepreneurs virtually every day, in all stages of development and across a wide varieties of sectors. While they are all different, there are many common themes. There are the questions they ask, and there are the challenges they don’t ask about that we see them all face eventually. Today I thought I’d [...]
Coaching question for you
I’ve been seeing a fair amount of material lately on executive and personal coaching. I have never used a coach, although like most of you I imagine, I’ve been one from time to time. I’m curious as to whether this is a topic you are interested in. By leaving a comment, please tell me: Whether [...]
3 types of personal change
“Growth is change”. This seems fairly self-evident. Growth, by it’s very nature, is change. As we talk about change on this blog, we are concerning ourselves with change associated with personal growth in pursuit of personal excellence. Therefore even though you could argue the opposite statement is also true “Change is growth”, not all growth [...]
Refocusing and Expanding
Refocusing AND expanding? How exactly does one do that?? When I started this blog, I said I intended to talk about Leadership as defined as personal and professional excellence examined through the lens of entrepreneurship. Nice words, but what does that really mean? Exactly. I don’t know if any of you have written a blog before, but there [...]
Lessons to be learned
It’s rather ironic that I recently recommended a book called Crucibles of Leadership. The book sounded interesting as it is centered around creating a Personal Learning Strategy to take advantage of particularly stressful life experiences. The author calls these experiences crucibles, and his premise is we all have enough crucibles to provide the basis for a [...]
Your morning routine, interrupted
When you wake up in the morning do you have a smile on your face and a sense of happy anticipation for the day you are about to enter into? Or do you wake to “just another day”, or worse a sense of dread or depression? If you fall into the second camp, ask yourself [...]
