Category Archives: Powerful Thoughts

How SUCCESSFULLY can you read someone's mind? (Notice I wrote successfully - we often believe we can read minds, but we usually do so in error.)How SUCCESSFULLY have others been able...

Last week I posed the following question: On a scale of 1-10 (10 being "it's my favorite thing to do as a leader; I volunteer to conduct them!" and 1 being...

I'm sorry I'm late.I'm sorry if this sounds like a repetitive question.I'm sorry to bother you.I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you.I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.......BLECH! WHY am I...

I WANT TO FAIL. Everyone successful fails.  Success follows failure, launching a flop of a program, solving the equation incorrectly, going back to the drawing board with your team after being...

I need more time.How do I get more time?Where did all the time go?Why do I never have enough time? Time. Time. Time. We're obsessed with time. It's consumable, we...

Happy Fri-YAY, Thought Partners!  Here's a sobering thought...2021 is roughly half over! How is that possible? Does anyone else think this year has flown by or are you a member of the...

In keeping with this month's theme of assessing our leadership fitness, my goal is to make today's Thought Partner Friday one of my leanest and tightest yet! Most gurus say if you...

We often exacerbate and compound our stress by “borrowing" anxiety from the future. What makes this anxiety “loan” even more problematic is that most of these thoughts are not rooted in...

In a previous post, I talked about evaluating your daily performance with a quick NIGHTLINE REVIEW to see where you could have acted in a more productive manner, behaved differently...

It’s the last week of April and we have spent the better part of the month talking about increasing our resilience, finding joy where we can and looking forward with...