What Time Is It?

This post focuses on the first competence of Emotional Intelligence*, Emotional Self-awareness (contained within the Self-Awareness Domain): Leaders high in emotional self-awareness are attuned to their inner signals, recognizing how their feelings affect them and their job performance. They are attuned to their guiding values and can often intuit the best course of action, seeing…

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. – James Allen We are so often kept small by the thing that must remain the same. Or the thing we must control. (Some form of) Fear is what keeps us clinging to this “thing.” We think that if we…

“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” – Madeleine Albright I believe it was Einstein who said: there are two ways to live, as if everything is a miracle and as if…

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. – William James Quite simply, you actually fail* when you don’t act. And you amplify that failure when you pass over a truly unique and special opportunity. The key is to be ready for when the really cool…

Sometimes Seth Godin puts out something so good I need to share it with you, in its entirety: Some people are able to reflect the light that lands on them, to take directions or assets or energy and focus it where it needs to be focused. This is a really valuable skill. Even more valuable,…

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