By now, you’ve read enough summaries of the unthinkable year that was 2020. In this, the opening week of content from The Blog for 2021, I wanted to focus on hope. And so, I share … [Read more...]
6 Ways to Boost Your Self Confidence and Feel Like You’re Enough
Using these six strategies will boost your self-confidence and self-worth for good
I coach a lot of people on leaving the corporate world to monetize their expertise as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, or trainer. Friends often ask me, “What keeps … [Read more...]
7 Signs You’re Leading From a Place of Fear
You might be leading from a place of fear and not even realize it
So much of what we do in life is born out of love, or fear. The latter never shapes an outcome good for anybody. Perhaps you're already working to overcome your own fears, like … [Read more...]
9 Success Lessons From Usain Bolt’s Absurd Rio Olympics
Usain Bolt didn't just glide into success in Rio. He applied powerful success lessons along the way--you can too.
This just in: Usain Bolt is fast. I'm not. I move about as quickly as a manatee swimming in a vat of hair gel. But I'm quick to pick up on applicable lessons for … [Read more...]
Try Making Someone Else’s Day. This 1 Sentence Will Show You How
Be a force of positivity and growth for your employees with 1 powerful sentence and 13 tips.
We might not realize it, but our self-esteem and self-confidence are under assault every single day. I recently conducted research that revealed a shocking 93 percent … [Read more...]
6 Unexpected Habits of the Most Confident People
Be confident that this dose of non-obvious, science-backed advice will help boost your confidence.
Here's something you know. Being self-confident improves odds of success, whether you're a leader wanting to lead confidently, an entrepreneur, or someone just trying to … [Read more...]
This Huge Study Shows How to Raise Successful Kids Who Aren’t Perfectionists
The study shows the wrong kind of youth movement--one of rising perfectionism. Here's why it's bad, and what to do.
I’d hazard a guess that one out of every three interview respondents uses “I’m just too much of a perfectionist” as the weakness to talk about in interviews–as if it were an … [Read more...]
If Even Bill Gates has a Mentor, So Should You
Mentoring makes you better, no matter how good you are. I’ll show you how to find one.
For me, making the leap from corporate world to the world of author, speaker, educator, and entrepreneur required one last push. As ready as I thought I was, I still had last … [Read more...]
Stop Undermining Yourself In These 7 Ways to Be More Self-Confident
Self-Confidence is hard enough to maintain so why would we contribute to the opposite? And yet we do, unwittingly--here's how.
There are many success lessons to draw from and success inducing behaviors to emulate. But nothing might be as important for success as … [Read more...]
5 Mantras to Lift You Up When It Feels Like Your Company Is Tearing You Down
Far too many are working someplace that makes them feel like just a number, at best. These five doses of perspective will reignite your personal power.
As a writer, speaker and ex-corporate veteran I’ve had exposure to thousands of people slogging it out in the trenches of Company XYZ, trying to advance their projects, prospects, … [Read more...]