If you’re anything like me, your mind is always going a million miles a minute.  It’s just the way I work.  But this driven mind is both a blessing and a curse.  For years, I struggled with managing my driven mind, and it led to some serious issues....

Have you ever heard the expression: “leaders aren’t born, they’re made?” I’d like to take this one step further: Mindful leaders aren’t born, they make themselves.  The driven mind will blow right past leadership with its break-neck pace. It leaves team mates and...

Nearly everybody wants to be changing and keep their lives and businesses improving, but few people want to be the ones to lead the change first.  This is a mindset you need to change (pun intended).  Leading change is a topic near and dear to my heart.  When I...

I want you to consider this statement:  Happy leaders create happy followers.  Our happiness as leaders affects every aspect of our business and our lives.  Still, there are a lot of people out there (including myself at one point), who believe that happiness in the...

Why are you doing what you’re doing? Have you ever stopped to think about the answer to this question?  If you’re reading this post, you’re probably a leader looking for answers.  As a founder of many businesses and a leadership coach, I’ve forced myself to look at...

There aren’t many things in the workplace I hate more than the phrase “constructive criticism.”This is a topic near and dear to my heart. A leader’s attitude towards “criticism” is one of the key factors in producing happiness in leadership and success for all your...

  Where should good change leaders focus their management focus, at the present or in the future?   A lot of you may be thinking:    Duh, what kind of question is this? Of course, you want both!    In reality, this is a lot more difficult to...

In today’s post, we’re going to take a little trip.  We’ll be looking at our “maps” and the things we want in life and evaluating if we’re on the right path or if we’re even looking at the right map.  Today, we’re going to go on a little bit of a ride together and...