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The Thoughtful Leaders™ BlogWhat is your dream?
In so many ways, we are surrounded by adages that urge us onward and upward. “The sky is the limit.” “Reach for the stars.” “If you build it, they will come.” Yet we rarely see these ideas as true for us. We hold back from going for all that we want, or from believing that we can have it or achieve it. Related Posts:Leave a ReplySee it and do it
When we guide our clients through personal and professional future planning, we share this quote over and over again. As many of us contemplate the future, we often either dream of our castles in the sky and yet do nothing to get there, or we keep moving and doing what’s in front of us without a thought about where we really want to go and what/who we really want to be. We forget to act in ways that will lead us to our ultimate goal or to even allow ourselves the time and space to figure out what our ultimate goal is. Related Posts:Leave a ReplyA quick tool for your 2012 personal development from Chatsworth Consulting Group
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Related Posts:Leave a ReplyWhat does it take to be a hero?
From my dear college friend who is not only battling cancer, but also battling it strongly and with more humor and love than imaginable – we call her to “cheer her up” and she’s always the one to make us laugh with her anecdotes. To my client who has lost more than 120 pounds to date…and is still going. I informed her that she had already lost “more than me” and she laughed as she told me how she was training for her first triathlon. To Anthony Robles, whom I don’t know personally – yet he astounds me. He was born with only one leg and just won the NCAA wrestling championship. There are heroes all around. Related Posts:Leave a ReplyFive reasons I like New Year’s Resolutions
Related Posts:Leave a ReplyCome on in, the water’s fine
We recently offered a program called Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone to a conference audience. We challenged them to get out of their own way and set their Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals (Author Jim Collins coined this term in his book, Good to Great) so that they could truly accomplish the things that mattered to them most. Related Posts:4 Responses to “Come on in, the water’s fine”Leave a ReplyMountain climbing can look an awful lot like leadership
My daughter is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro next summer. That has me thinking about mountains, what it takes to climb (or conquer) them, and what it takes to prepare. I think about what she has literally in front of herself, and of how she’ll have to push herself, and I realize that while it is entirely different from our daily challenges in life and leadership and the figurative mountains we conquer, it is also very much the same. Related Posts:Leave a ReplyFinding more time – two ideas!
It seems to be a crazy time for everyone lately, with more things to do than time to do them. In the event that this sounds uncomfortably familiar to you too, I thought it might be helpful to share two time management strategies. They are practical and “doable,” and they always seem to resonate. Related Posts:Leave a Reply |
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This time of year often signals the beginning of the end-of-year flurry of activities. On both personal and professional fronts, there are many things we “have to do” as we wrap-up 2011 and prepare for 2012. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a quick way to get more focused – more thoughtful and intentional – as you looked towards the coming year?
At the age of 61, former long distance swim champion Diana Nyad just attempted a feat that no one else has ever completed – a 103-mile, 60-hour swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida. In watching and reading news accounts about her historic effort, I am reminded of what helps anyone succeed in going for their dreams and goals:
I’m surrounded by heroes, and I’m in awe.
Like every year, there will be a ton of articles written over the next few days about why New Year’s Resolutions don’t work and why you shouldn’t make them. Yes, there are tons of stats about resolutions that are never achieved and that are forgotten a few weeks (or days, even) into the new year. However, New Year’s resolutions in and of themselves are not a bad thing. In fact, I like making New Year’s resolutions, and I encourage you to set a few yourself.
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside.” — Stephen Covey 
I suspect we are all guilty to some extent. Especially as we get older and think that time is no longer our ally. Sometimes I know the course I should take, examine the risk, reflect on past experiences and think of what others would say, think or do and deliberately choose another safer course. Thank you for this reminder.
You’re welcome! Yes, choosing the riskier path does require a reminder of how bold we can – and have – been, rather than focusing on what may not have worked in the past or on what others think.
Very true. A very timely little nudge. Thanks. I had to tweet about it @ebfmark
Thanks for the comment and the tweet, Mark. It’s so easy to forget that sometimes all we need to do is start…