S.M.A.R.T.E.R Goals

Happy New Year. With the season of goal setting upon us, I thought this blog would be worthy of reposting in the hope that it aids you in your goal setting. Goals can represent something we are not doing, something we should be doing, or even something that currently...

Don’t Give Up!

As a follow up to my blog on SMARTER© goals, let’s explore some ways to keep goal setting alive. We look at goal setting as an annual activity that once complete, gets buried under the pile of the urgent, drowning any aspirations. We are over a month into the New Year...

Get S.M.A.R.T.E.R

Are you one of those people that hates this goal setting time of the year?  Goals can represent something we are not doing, something we should be doing, or even something that currently seems impossible. Even when we set goals, most of us abandon them long before the...

Are You Questioning Everything?

Our ability to question is fundamental to everything we do. Have you noticed that as we get older, our ability to question decreases? We start out life as this little bundle of energy that questions everything around us. Who hasn’t seen the toddler ask a series of...

Is There More to the Story?

Last week we began discussing a technique I teach to diffuse conflict. Using the “Tell Me More About That” technique helps us as leaders, spouses, friends, parents, and more. This week, let’s keep building on that topic: One of my axioms is: “There...