Overcoming Life’s Disappointments: Part Two
Last week, I covered how we can carry disappointments around with us, and the first five steps to overcoming disappointment. By nature, we have a lot of expectations as human beings. But unfortunately, these often go unmet and can leave us with emotional scars if we...
Overcoming Life’s Disappointments: Part One
Last week, we talked about how disappointment can follow us around. But how do we defeat it? We want to bring disappointment to an utter end so that it will not rise up again. Disappointments in life will still occur, but we don’t need to succumb to a spirit of...
Strong Leaders Learn to Overcome Disappointment
When I was in high school in the early 1970’s, it was an “in” thing to sneak up on people and punch them in the arm with your middle finger bent over into a pointed position. This would cause the muscle in the arm to form a bump and begin to twitch...
Time Management in Leadership: 4 People You Lead
If you’re not careful, the position of leadership can be emotionally, physically and spiritually exhausting to you. One major thing that can help is to intentionally choose whom to spend your time with. There are four people groups that leaders find themselves working...
Leadership Starts in the Home: The Importance of Emotional Bonds
Leadership starts in the home. From the very beginning of a person’s life, they are subconsciously learning lessons about leadership from their parents. It’s been on my heart for a while now to start blogging seriously about leadership—and that includes a...
Leadership and Teamwork in Myers Briggs
Last week we talked about creatively adapting to a work environment that might not match our personality preferences (which you can read about here). This week, I want to talk about how, as a leader, we can adapt the work environment to include a variety of people....
4 Leadership Lessons from our Founding Fathers
Somehow, July 4th has surprised us. It seems like yesterday we were celebrating 2015’s arrival, and today, halfway to 2016, we celebrate the United States. Today we remember that we are a nation founded not only by ideals but by brave, fierce leaders. So who...
How to Handle Criticism
My friend Glenn Shaffer is a leader who, like all leaders, has had his fair share of dealing with criticism. But he has worked to handle criticism with grace—a lesson most leaders need to learn! After my series on handling criticism, I’m hoping that you will...AMAZING NEW PRODUCTS
