Shit happens - it's called life. You have a choice to make. You can either step in it or step over it. You pick. You can let it ruin your day and torpedo your plans or learn the lessons it's trying to teach you and begin again. This time a little wiser and a little more informed. I choose to see the positives in everything that happens to me because I believe everything that happens to me is a learning opportunity. Even the negative things that will happen to you, and trust me, there will be plenty of them, are learning opportunities if you look at them from another point of view. I know that between the space of stimulus and response, Dr. Covey talks about and what Dr. Viktor Frankl knows to be true from his experiences, I must react in a way that is going to get me what I want. I know that shit happens - I will figure it out. Will you be able to figure yours out? Listen to my podcast and find out.

We all face the same dilemma: too much to do and not enough hours in the day to do them. How you spend your time is the limiting factor, not the things you need to get done. How you manage your time is how you manage your life. Do you need to learn to say no? Listen to my podcast to find out how.

Have you ever wondered why you do what you do and why you do it the way you do it? We become who we are at a very young age. We get accustomed to acting a certain way, communicating and interacting with others a certain way that eventually becomes us. An individuals personality remains relatively stable throughout their lifetime. You are who you are - embrace it. Understanding your behavior and how it impacts you and the people around you can be Listen to my latest podcast to discover how scoring a DISC Behavioral Assessment can be the catalyst to unleashing the power of your potential.

You've just been promoted into a leadership role in your organization. Your management group believes you have the credentials to take on this position. Making that transition from worker to manager or leader can be complex. It requires a different set of skills. It's no longer about what you know - it's about your ability to teach someone else. It's no longer just about you - it's about everyone on your team and what you must do to help them succeed. If your team succeeds, then you've done your job. But if your team fails, you fail because your job is to give them the tools they need to complete the task and accomplish the goal. Listen to my podcast to find out what I recommend you do.

Managing and leading others is not about you - it's about the people you are leading. By understanding our different personalities, strengths, and weaknesses, we can all become more effective in working with and interacting with others. Different is just different - and different is ok. I use a DISC behavioral assessment tool developed by Dr. William Marston because it's easy to administer, and you don't need a degree in Behavioral Sciences to interpret the results. Listen to this podcast and discover how DISC will help you build a strength-based team.

It will be your fault if you have trouble attracting and retaining talent. Management has a big challenge ahead. You are entering a new era of leadership. According to Gallup, the latest generation to enter the workforce - Generation Z - will make up 27% of the available talent pool by 2025. They are like no other generation that has come before them. Listen to today's podcast to discover what managers and leaders must do to attract and retain this emerging workforce.

According to Wikipedia, a project manager is a trained professional responsible for the planning, procurement, and execution of a project with a defined scope and a defined start and completion date. If you think of yourself in the same context - you are a project manager because you are in charge of all aspects of managing your life. In this episode of my Confessions of a Reformed Control Freak Podcast, I will share five competencies critical to your success as a project manager. You'll need to decide which ones you're good at - and which ones you'll need to learn. After all - if you think about it, you are the project manager of your life.

Having teams work together is challenging at the best of times. You can't expect to throw a bunch of people together, call them a team, and have them perform like one without carefully setting team goals and priorities and how team members are selected and trained. Listen to this podcast episode and discover what managers can do so their team doesn't suck.

Working with and being managed or supervised by someone with a different way of communicating and interacting with others. You need to keep one thing in mind - you aren't going to change your Boss. The key is to work with them the way they like. Listen to my podcast for a few tips on how to work with your boss and live to talk about it.