by dustin | Mar 27, 2015 | Decision Making, Goal Setting, leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Success
There’s a big reason we have so many issues trying to accomplish important work. We aren’t clear about what is the main attraction and what are simply distractions. When you think about your daily activities, how many of them could be classified as a...
by dustin | Mar 4, 2015 | Decision Making, Goal Setting, Personal Development, Professional Development, Success, Teamwork
Knowing when to quit and when to press on can be one of life’s toughest decisions. When things get tough, the tough get going… but do they go straight ahead or in a different direction? When I wanted to quit football in high school, my father taught me a...
by dustin | Feb 5, 2015 | human spirit, inspiration, leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Success
“I’ll never let that happen again.” Amidst all of life’s slings and arrows, we learn to put up our shields to protect ourselves. We do this to get through situations when we feel attacked, but if we leave our shields up we close ourselves off....
by dustin | Jan 23, 2015 | Decision Making, leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development
You are faced with a nearly infinite number of decisions each day. The cereal aisle in the grocery store used to be a sign of our mountain of choices, but you can now find enough varieties of any product to fill a store (or more) thanks to online shopping. The only...
by dustin | Dec 23, 2014 | Goal Setting, inspiration, leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Success
Crossing numerous small hills doesn’t make you a mountain climber. Dousing millions of lit matches one at a time won’t qualify you as a fire fighter. Running a quarter mile every day for four months won’t make you a marathon runner. The tedium of...
by dustin | Oct 20, 2014 | Business Management, leadership, managing people, Personal Development, Professional Development, Teamwork
In your organization, you have a choice. You can envision something bigger than yourself that others can rally together around. Or you can cut things down to size and try to divide, because you’re afraid of hoping for something bigger. When you have a mindset to...