If you aren't working toward what you want, then you are working your way further from it. Take intentional steps toward where you want to be. Develop meaningful and valuable relationships. Create action that moves you closer to your ultimate goal(s). Because if you aren't living this way, you are moving further away from what
You wish you had a different place in life. You can get there. It's really just a few steps. Step One: Replace NEGATIVITY with POSITIVITY Step Two: Take action. Any action that moves you closer to your goal. Big action or little action. Just take action. Step Three: Learn from the experience. Failures and successes.
Strategic planning doesn't have to be scary and it certainly doesn't have to engulf entire days to achieve a quality, realistic strategic plan. In reality, strategic planning that gets too big is often unachievable as it leaves people frozen with inaction because it is overwhelming. Here are a handful of tips to help you have
I was at a seminar when I first heard, “ancora imparo.” It is Italian and means, “I am still learning.” You may have heard it explained as life is a learning curve or, “and still I learn.” The presenter at the seminar shared the quote, “Ancora imparo,” by Michelangelo (the artist, not the Ninja Turtle).
A close family member graduated at the end of 2017 from Drug Court. Drug Court is a program that treats the addiction instead of incarcerating it. The Drug Court program isn’t for every situation. Thankfully, it was right for our family and we will be forever grateful as it played a significant role in saving
Fitness challenges seem to be popping up all around us. I thought I’d adopt the fitness challenge idea to issue a kindness challenge. Below is a step by step action list for you to follow that won’t take a lot of time, will cost you very little (nothing if you are creative), and should
With the struggle for businesses to find talent these days, it boggles my mind that not all businesses are taking more time to invest in their employees and show them that THEY MATTER. Here are three SIMPLE things you can do to treat your employees better this week than you did last week. 1) Ask
Most years, a few days before Christmas, I wrap a really ugly gift. The item inside isn’t ugly but the box is ugly because I use all of my leftover wrapping paper. A recent ugly gift had shiny red and silver paper that said, “ho, ho, ho,” some birthday paper with a Finding Nemo theme, and
When classes graduate from Institute of Organizational Management, they choose a song that plays as they walk into graduation. The song my class chose was Halestorm’s, “Here’s to Us”. We could have picked a traditional graduation song like Bruno Mars’, “Today My Life Begins,” or Vitamin C’s, “Graduation (Friends Forever).” We chose, “Here’s to Us,”
I want to make people cry. Sounds harsh, but sometimes I really do. If I am doing a presentation that includes my personal story about my struggle with an eating disorder and depression, then I want to hit people in the feels. I think that is the most powerful way to, 1) bring attention to