George Ambler just published an article on The Practice of Leadership called How to know when you’re not leading? In it he mentions that people fail when they act from the stance of a victim.  I couldn’t agree more and so wanted to elaborate my response a bit relating specifically to this victim perspective. The [...]

Author : Zig Ziglar A few years ago now when I was absorbed in a number of motivational books and audio cassettes, I listened to one by Zig Ziglar called, "You are a Natural Champion".  Remembering that I enjoyed listening to it triggered me to buy this book when I saw [...]

I’ve been just amazed lately at the caliber I see and interest I’ve had in some of the topics I watch from the TED Talks conferences.  One I watched lately was Robert Ballard on exploring the oceans and I was impressed to see what I thought was a wonderful demonstration of passion.  I love the [...]

I’ve highlighted before one of my favorite resources, the TED talks conference and I recently really like another by Chris Jordan .  Chris touches on a subject of waste in our world and he challenges his audience to look at the grand scale of these problems and hopes his work will impact people to make [...]

Have you even spent some time thinking about your own core values?  Whether you have or not, you likely do have core values and you most likely live by them in a lot of ways.  My question however, is "Do you share those core values with your friends and colleagues?"  If you do, "What [...]

Author : Lee Strobel I wanted to read another of Strobel’s book as I thoroughly enjoyed his "God’s Outrageous Claims " book and I wanted to explore a bit more of the evidence and entry level apologetic views to help defend Christianity.  While the book is really just an introduction to [...]

My Own Realizations I’ve written articles on being humble before and I strive to stay humble when talking and sharing about my own knowledge and skills with others.  I used to have a much more competitive and egocentric attitude which I learned to change.  The problem is that I’ve taken that so far, I often now [...]

Many areas in our lives, we have things we are working towards and want to be able to see progress in.  Whether that is with our goals, success, financial aspirations, or our career and family values, there is generally a desire to make progress in those areas in our lives.  Unfortunately, life throws a [...]

There are so many challenges we face everyday it is no wonder we easily find ourselves falling into the trap of saying, "I can’t ."  Its an extremely negative response and really does nothing for us as it’s more of an easy excuse than a real useful reason.  Without getting into all the specifics as [...]

I wanted to point everyone to a guest article of mine on organizeit.co.uk about overcoming bad habits.  Its called How To Make Definitive Changes To Your Habits .  Please go on over and check out the article.  I would appreciate (I’m sure James would as well) any help you can offer by stumbling or sharing [...]

Author : Matthew Kelly Well I’ve had this book on my  bookshelf for a few months now as I’ve been catching up my backlog of books and I’m so happy to have finally read it.  I have read a few other recent reviews lately and while they outlined [...]

Well, I haven’t listed a lot of other resources lately so it’s due time to bring up some of the great articles I’ve come across over the last couple months that fit well with the leadership and personal development topics I write about.  These are the ones I liked in particular. Articles Do You Have the Courage [...]

Generous Writing With the world of text messaging, email and internet everything, there is still a high quantity of communication systems that use text.  They are doing it in a more segmented, small content system however. The good thing is that there is lots of medium to write in and many opportunities in our [...]

As I continue to look at communication skills and cover various areas of it, speaking is definitely an important one.  I am certainly not a skilled public speaker or presenter and while that is a common skill for communication, this article is about controlling your speaking for every day communication and not focused on [...]

Looking at ways to improve your communication is very valuable and something everyone can afford to do.  My last article I discussed how to improve your communication skills by listening better , and now I’ll explore how to use regular questions to better communicate with others. Stay Engaged Asking questions is a simple way to stay engaged [...]

There are so many different aspects of communication, I couldn’t hope to cover them in a single article so I’m going to look at a few specific areas of communication in how it affects our lives and our ability to learn and improve.  This first one I was inspired by Jennifer at Principles for [...]

Author : James Womack and Daniel Jones This is one of the books that has been on my reading list for some time and I am a little disappointed in the applicable knowledge you can take from the book.  I finished it but had a sense of wanting [...]

One of the simplest things I’ve learned about improving your relationships is an important habit to develop.  Its simple, but not that easy to put into practice without paying attention to it, which is the point of this article. Its so simple its often overlooked when people teach about communications and relationships.  The idea [...]

My last article I discussed how to use delegation specifically as a learning tool and why it is useful as one. I want to cover a few more benefits of delegation and give an outline on how to implement it and make it work for you. Its not an easy or comfortable thing [...]

Learning is obviously an important topic on this site and while there are many methods to learn, one that is often thought of only in business is delegation. I think delegation has a lot of negative associations in the workplace because people see it not as a learning tool, but as a way to [...]