Growing yourself enables you to grow others If you are not doing something with your life it does not matter how long it is! Adding value to other people should be a high priority for leaders in both the profit and nonprofit arena. Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “I would rather have it said ’He lived […]

Growth Always Increases Your Capacity There is no finish line – Nike Have you ever maxed your capacity? Have you ever reached the fullest expression of yourself? If you are breathing, you have the capacity to enlarge yourself. Authors Kriegel and Patler state in their book If It Ain’t Broke…Break It, The potential that exists […]

It is hard to improve when you have no one but yourself to follow! The most important personal growth phrase you will ever hear a good leader say to you is “FOLLOW ME!” So what is a good model when choosing a good mentor to follow? Here are a few thoughts on choosing worthiness in […]

Growth is stimulated by asking questions Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not – George Bernard Shaw How do we cultivate curiosity? – Here are ten suggestions 1.Believe that you can be curious – The number one enemy of curiosity is “LIMITED […]

You have to give up to grow up! People will cling to an unsatisfactory way of life rather than change in order to get something better for fear of getting something worse – Eric Hoffer Trade offs are available to us throughout our life – Everybody make trades throughout their life whether they know it […]

Growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you could be! Only a mediocre person is always at their best! What happens when you stretch yourself in leadership? Remember that leadership is influence and not title. What are some possible outcomes of stretching yourself to accomplish, become, and develop yourself […]

Character Growth Determines the Height of Your Personal Growth! Achievement to most people is something that you do…to the high achiever, it is something you are – Doug Firebaugh Professors James Kouzes and Barry Posner have administered their “Characteristics of Admired Leaders” survey to over 75,000 people on six continents. The results all point back […]

Good management of bad experiences leads to growth. Every problem introduces a person to himself – John McDonnell Cheryl McGuiness, wife of co-pilot Tom McGuiness, the 1st plane to hit the World Trade Center 9/11/01 has lived through difficult days. In her book, Beauty Beyond The Ashes, she writes, “As unfair, unreasonable, and impossible as […]

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you will fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? NOT MUCH! Year-end Review We are approaching the end of another year. 2015 will be in the rear-view mirror within weeks of of this podcast. This is the time […]

The first steps toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment you first find yourself in – Mark Caine There simply comes a time in all of our lives that our environment needs to change in order for growth to go to the next level. Lasting change depends on […]