Category Archives: Powerful Thoughts

According to Dr. Angela Duckworth's book “Grit,” a key indicator of being highly successful isn't talent or intellect (although helpful for obvious reasons). It's (you guessed it) GRIT. Duckworth explains that the highly successful...

I might be biased, but I really do believe I have the greatest clients out there. Learning from my clients is probably the best part of my job as a...

This past Monday, July 4th, many of us here in the United States celebrated the federal holiday of Independence Day. A day that commemorates the 1776 adoption of the Declaration of...

Most of you are probably familiar with some version of the proverb: "Give a person a fish and they will eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and...

This month we're focusing on breaking some of our more common bad habits and possibly pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones. Last week we talked about the bad habit we have...

A ROUSING WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST THOUGHT PARTNERS THE AWESOME ATTENDEES FROM THE2022 CALA SPRING CONFERENCE & TRADE SHOW  One of my favorite "work" books, The Advice Trap, written by Michael Bungay Stanier,...

Happy June, Thought Partners!Just typing that salutation had my eyes bugging through my readers, as fashionable as the pair I'm wearing happens to be. How on earth is it June already?I can't...

As an Introverted Extrovert, I fully admit to having a tug-of-war with the ever so necessary function of NETWORKING.  I'm not alone. I've titled today's TPF An Introvert's Nightmare because I...

Multitasking - The Silent Productivity Killer A body of scientific evidence illustrates, fairly conclusively, that multitasking makes humans less productive and less creative.Like Roberta Flack's famous melancholy song (later sampled...

Piggybacking off last week's TPF, 3 Steps to Clearer Decisions, I thought I would reference an article that's an "oldie but goodie" while responding to the following questions a few...