Tag: Leadership Blogs

Do You Know Who You Are?

This Takes You To A Special Place
This Takes You To A Special Place

As you rush through your insane busy days, do you take make time to pause and ground your thoughts and actions with your core being?

We see it in others every single day.

But we can’t see it in ourselves.

I cannot recall the last time, if ever, I’ve provided a link to this blog. It represents the very core of what I believe. You may not believe what I believe and that’s not the point. The point is, whatever you believe, do you believe it all the way and do you use it all day long to drive your work towards excellence?

Make Work Fun, Make Fun Work

This Indiana Store Sign Looked "Fun"
This Indiana Store Sign Looked "Fun"

How much freedom do you have at work to have fun, to be fun, to creatively express yourself?

How often do you enjoy that freedom?  And how often do you share the fun with others? One of my blind spots is that the comedian in me is struggling to shine through the “serious” nature of this blogging mission.

All of us are challenged in some way, shape or form to be authentic, to express our true and passionate selves. What do you do to not give up, to keep marching forward? I share things like this, an article from Everyday Health, on 13  creative ways to express yourself, and make work more productive.

jungle jeff Is

Where Will Your Career Take You?
Where Will Your Career Take You?

jungle jeff Is:

  • An idea
  • One of Life’s Big Four
  • A Business
  • A Website
  • A Blog
  • A Way Of Thinking
  • Our Financial Responsibility
  • A Movement

Every ant in the ant mound and every bee in the bee hive makes a contribution. Same with humans. Generally speaking, society pays us money relative to our contribution.

With money, we can buy food, shelter, transportation, insurance, and help others.

Money isn’t the root of all evil, it is the love of money that is the trap. Making money is challenging. Investing it and growing it are even more so. But we need to figure it out – it’s our adult responsibility.

The Other Endowment

Too Successful?
Too Successful?

It’s called courage.  Our creator also bestowed us with courage, so we could stand and fight, to defend ourselves – from a Saber-Toothed Tiger, or a brutal economy.

Yet the challenge most of us face, is the challenge of stealth proportions. The one we can not see, hear, touch or taste.

(pause)

The fear of success.

(pause)

You know what’s crazy, once we start to see, hear, touch and taste it, we wonder why we waited so long.

Yesterday’s Point

Yards Cost More
Yards Cost More

Your salary will be different if you are a manager or a leader.

Managers can make good money. Leaders in the same industry make even more.

The more money you make, the more you can do.

Being a manager is hard. Being a leader is even harder.

And then there’s being a business owner.