Who Do You Need to Be This Year?
Who do you need to be this year for yourself, your family, your team and your other stakeholders? Here’s a four-step approach to answering that question.
Who do you need to be this year for yourself, your family, your team and your other stakeholders? Here’s a four-step approach to answering that question.
In working with and speaking to tens of thousands of leaders over the past 16 years, I’ve become convinced that
We are all familiar with the phrase, “You must be present to win.” Here’s a story from one of my clients, Jessica, about how that idea can play out in real life. Jessica is one of around 30 participants in a Developing Leadership Presence program I’m doing for rising leaders at a well known Fortune 500 company. Like a lot of professionals, she’s working in an environment of constant change that can quickly consume all of a person’s time, attention and energy. They’ve all been working on practical ways to build their leadership presence.
If you’re like most people reading this, you regularly use a GPS app on your smartphone to help you get where you want to go. What difference would it make if you had a GPS for your life? As you think through and plan for what you want from 2015, you can use these three simple questions in this post to create a Life GPS® to help you get where you want to go.
We hear a lot these days about achieving work/life balance. I’m here to tell you that in an age of doing
There was a vastly underrated road trip movie last year starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. called “Due Date.”
For the last two weeks, an article called How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body has been one of the top 10 most emailed articles on the New York Times website. When I checked this morning there were 734 comments on the article on the Times’ website. With approximately 20 million yogis in the United States, the article has definitely struck a nerve (pun somewhat intended). As many of the commenters point out, there are flaws in the way the article was reported. At the same time, as the article illustrates, you can get injured doing yoga.
I was away for a few weeks over the holidays. It was a nice break and it’s good to be back. One of the good things about being back is reconnecting with friends I haven’t seen in awhile. One of those is a friend from yoga. We gave each other a hug hello at class the other night and she said, “Well, here we are.” My response was, “Yeah, 2012, it’s the only year we’ve got.” (Unless, of course, the physicists at CERN figure out time travel this year.)
So, for now, this is the only year you’ve got. What do you want to do with it? I don’t have any idea what your answer is or should be. Only you do.
If you’ve flown on a commercial airliner, you’ve heard the flight attendants say something along the lines of, “In the unlikely event of a loss of cabin pressure, yellow oxygen masks will deploy. Put the strap of the mask over your head and breathe normally. If you’re travelling with passengers who need assistance, put your own mask on first before assisting other passengers.”
Being busy makes you stupid. And when I say, “you”, I mean me. Heck, I’ll just say it out loud.
Today’s post is short and sweet as I have about 10 minutes before they shut the door on my plane.
Some recent news stories, one in particular, have caused me to pull out my dictionary to look up the word