Here is the video from Sunday’s webinar on How to Make Meaningful Connections, which, as I describe in it and you’ll find if you practice the exercise in it, is about how to develop compassion. The exercise in this webinar teaches some of the most valuable skills you can learn about relationships. Every leader I’ve ever heard talk about compassion describes it as critical, up there with empathy and self-awareness.[…] Keep reading →

Prelude A client’s friend had lunch with Warren Buffett. He talked a lot about passion. In fact, she wrote Throughout the conversation, Buffett stressed the significance of passion—how necessary it was for his own journey and how imperative it is for us to find ours. Passion was the fire behind his focus that encouraged him to absorb all things business, all the time. It was a job, it was his[…] Keep reading →

After teaching, coaching, studying, and practicing leadership for twenty years, I announced my online leadership course, “Introducing the most effective leadership course available anywhere.” I’m hosting a series of free webinars on the most actionable, useful, effective, and exciting parts of the course. My webinars will always deliver exclusive, valuable lessons you can use that day and how to build for the long term. Attend my fourth webinar, free, this[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA). If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] People keep getting it backward when they congratulate me on the five years of daily posts, four years of daily burpees, and other disciplined achievements. They say, “You[…] Keep reading →

I wrote about David Allen’s influence before, in “‘I am a freedom junky’ — David Allen’s inspiring words that simplified my life,” which describes how I implemented his system of getting things done. His words and advice regularly come to mind and help me. They did recently when an email that would have stressed and burdened me had I not known his system. I had his book and a camera[…] Keep reading →

My post today on Inc.com, “Avoid Taking a Job You Hate by Doing This in Your Interview,” begins: You could have learned in the interview why you’d hate your job if you’d had this perspective. Learn it and make your interviews productive. If you ever left a job you expected to love, or endured hating it, these words likely ring true for you: “People join good projects and leave bad management.“[…] Keep reading →

I’ve posted how unhealthy fruit juice is, how beverage corporations (Coke and Pepsi, mainly) turn even so-called “100% juice” orange juice into chemical concoctions (which led to a beverage industry PR person contacting me to try to change my story), and how healthy orange peels are. They’re full of fiber, vitamin C, and flavor and texture that contrast and complement the juice inside. Since most people think of citrus fruit[…] Keep reading →

I just finished my first webinar, “Three Leadership Secrets You’ll Never Learn Reading A Book“. Here is the recording of it for those interested but who couldn’t make it. If you like what I write about and want more, contact me about what you want and I can tailor webinars to what people are looking for. I prefer to stick with topics I cover here but I’m flexible too. From[…] Keep reading →

My post today on Inc.com, “2 Questions To Ask in Every Interview So They’ll Want You Back,” begins: Instead of trying to show off, making you look like a commodity, use these techniques to make interviews two-way conversations where they’ll want you back. Isn’t that what you want from an interview? If you want one thing most from an interview, you want the interviewer to want you back. If you want[…] Keep reading →