Find it interesting that during an election season all rules are thrown out the doors. We attack people for their thinking and their beliefs. I’ve got several interesting notes over the past couple of weeks asking what I think of the marketing of the current crop of presidential candidates. Most…
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How to Uncover Your Beliefs
Why is it so important to understand your beliefs? If you remember when we started our discussions about beliefs, we talked about the importance of knowing your beliefs and how they impact your life and success. Let’s define beliefs are according to the Merriam -Webster Dictionary: An acceptance that a…
Continue Reading....Are You on Purpose?
I spend time with many serving leaders who run wonderful nonprofits around the country. They range from hospitals to animal sanctuaries. They are big and small from good to great. What common factor do they all have in common? They all want to serve their communities. But are they on…
Continue Reading....Does Your Nonprofit Know Its Strengths?
In the last blog we talked about the market forces that are impacting your nonprofit organization today. Serving Leaders face challenges today that were not even thought about five years ago. The rate of change has accelerated and it doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down in the foreseeable…
Continue Reading....The Conclusion of How to Turn Nothing into Something
Creating a Leadership Vision means giving voice to concepts and ideas that no one can see or hear but you. How do you make that vision a reality? This is the second half of how to turn your vision into something. Now here is the second step for turning nothing…
Continue Reading....How to Turn Nothing into Something
First, in order to turn nothing into something, you’ve got to start with some ideas and imagination. Now, it might be hard to call ideas and imagination nothing; but how tangible are those ideas? That is a bit of a mystery. I don’t believe that ideas that can be turned…
Continue Reading....From Motivation to Motive-Action
With the passing of every new year, each of us needs to understand the magnitude of social and economic change in the world. In the past, change in business and social life was incremental and a set of personal strategies for achieving excellence was not required. Today, in the knowledge-based…
Continue Reading....How to Put a Little Z.I.P. Into Your Relationships
Through the years I have spent hundreds of hours working with people in their relationships: Marriages, friendships, working relationships and social relationships. Through it all I have seen some wonderful things and some terrible things. It truly is the good, the bad and the ugly! But I have been able…
Continue Reading....Get Off the Nail!
Over the years I have met and observed thousands of people and each and every last one of them say they want some improvement in certain areas of their lives. In fact, most of them flat out confessed that they hated certain situations they were in. But after further evaluations,…
Continue Reading....The Time to Act
Engaging in genuine discipline requires that you develop the ability to take action. You don’t need to be hasty if it isn’t required, but you don’t want to lose much time either. Here’s the time to act: when the idea is hot and the emotion is strong. Let’s say you…
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