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How to Be a Better Leader
Are you a leader?
Whether you realize it or not, chances are that you’re a leader in your work, home, or community.
Leadership roles cover many areas.
Not all have fancy titles or are given accolades. Leaders provide a path to action and innovation. It could be a parent role, an employer, sports leadership, managing clients and projects, church groups, volunteer non-profit associations, or even recognizing and finding solutions to workplace problems.
Leaders have that innate ability to help, and they jump in to do just that!
We know not everyone has the desire to lead. But to lead simply means to have at least one follower.
So how can you become a better leader? One that is more intentional?
I Got Fired from the C-Suite: Here’s How I Recovered
"Embrace the suck!"
The first time I heard this term, I thought it was crass.
Then I realized it was a military term defined as "to consciously accept or appreciate something extremely unpleasant or unavoidable."
To me, embracing the suck means acknowledging a problematic or difficult situation by adopting the required mental toughness, standing tall with integrity, and staying positive despite 'the suck.'
What is Happiness?
What is happiness?
This seemingly straightforward question has bewildered the human race forever. We all seem to have our own perception and definition of happiness, but surprisingly the determinants of our happiness transition with time, place and surrounding.
Happiness is a virtue and an attribute of nature and all the living beings.
It is unconditional and internal. Does this mean that we should disregard all our emotions of anger, fear, sadness, anxiety, and so forth? No, we do not need to disregard those feelings because ignoring an issue is never a good solution.
Disregarding our emotions and feelings and their underlying causes and effects is nothing less than self-violence.
10 Growth Mindset Tips I Learned from My Kids
Living in a household with boys finds me stretching the limits of my parental comfort zone daily.
I often stop dead in my tracks and have to grit my teeth to not shriek in horror as my children jump off high objects. They do this both indoors and outdoors, naturally. My boys bike ride and go-cart at Mach speed down the sidewalks, climb mountainous rock piles as if they were invincible, and do what young boys do when tempted by the good ole outdoors. All the while I'm trying to stay calm.
As parents, there's a lot we can learn from our kids.
5 Essential Growth Mindset Strategies
Life always presents us with the unexpected. Change is inevitable!
I didn't realize I would be delving into the path I'm on today as I write to you from my newly designed blog. But here I am, living the unexpected and facing new challenges each day. As my previous career as the CEO of an independent school had me working at all hours, I hadn't considered the toll it took on all aspects of my life. It turns out that a lot was missing in terms of self-care. Now, I get to explore that area again.
But while the job of a CEO combined with being a mother of two lively boys was a huge undertaking, it's something that I managed to do because of my mindset.
If it hadn't been for the five strategies I'm about to share with you, I would never have made it through my first year of being a CEO.
How You Can Develop a Growth Mindset in 3 Easy Steps
You might have a growth mindset and not even know it.
Or you might be like many people who struggle in certain areas of their life because they lack the fundamental belief that they can grow and change. Growth, change, improvement, and success all stem from one thing: belief.
Do you believe that you can succeed?
Do you believe that you can learn and do better? What you believe will come true. The stronger you believe something, the more likely it is to come true.
This week I've been applying a growth mindset to my own barriers around technology.
Work-Life Balance…Is It Even Possible?
How many times have you told yourself that you need to find more balance in your life?
Somehow you need to figure out a way to balance work life and your personal life.
Maybe you’re like many women who say this to themselves every single week. Usually on Friday at 6 pm when you’re still in front of a computer or at a meeting that’s run late.
Maybe you’ve even been saying it to yourself for years.