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5 Steps to Move from Success to Significance
Success is a powerful motivator. It can dictate how we spend our time, energy, and resources. It can influence relationships, schedules, and families. It may even become an all-consuming passion that leaves broken people and morality in its wake. . Yet, success is not the...
3 Secrets to Mastering Leadership Excellence
We’ve all come across them. Those leaders who people naturally gravitate toward. Though it seems counterintuitive, the magnetic effect these leaders have on people is not because of how people feel about the leader. It’s because of how the leader makes people feel about...
Mindfulness Moment: Strength comes from forgiveness
Have you grown weary of feeling weak and powerless? Does life seem too heavy to bear at times? One of the surest ways to experience freedom in your life is to forgive. Bitterness and anger is a heavy burden many carry around with them every day. They go to bed with it...
Why It’s Okay to ‘Friend’ Your Employees
Lisa manages a group of people at a marketing agency. Like Lisa, most of the team is in their mid-30’s. They work long hours together and often go to dinner or drinks after work. Recently, over lunch, an older colleague told Lisa to be careful about making friends with...
Mindfulness Moment: Write Your Own Story
Are you letting other people dictate what you should do or who you should be? If you are, I am certain that causes you to feel powerless, stressed out, and defeated. You are the only one who can take back that power. In this moment focus on who you really are deep down....
How to Lead Behind a Glass Door
“You will work all the time. If you’re very, very lucky you may sleep or eat.” That’s an actual quote pulled from a review posted on Glassdoor – a site where employees and job candidates can anonymously post pros and cons about your company. What’s that again? Like...
Mindfulness Moment: Stop the cascade of bad thoughts
When ONE bad thing happens the cascade of poisonous thoughts often follow: Nothing good ever happens to me. I'm not smart enough. Why does everyone around me have more than I do? No one likes me. I will never succeed. These are lies we tell ourselves. Life is made up of...
Are You Addicted To Stress?
“On the morning of April 7, 2007, I was lying on the floor of my home office in a pool of blood. On my way down, my head had hit the corner of my desk, cutting my eye and breaking my cheekbone. I had collapsed from exhaustion and lack of sleep.” Those are the opening...
Mindfulness Moment: Do you know who you are?
Do you know who you are? Do you do things because you think you should or it is what everyone wants you to do? In order to experience a sense of empowerment and calm in your life, it is imperative to know who you are. That process can be an uncomfortable one as you go...
A Gnarly Ride Inside Patagonia’s Culture
At 11:21 a.m., Pacific Surfliner 763 glided into the Amtrak station in Ventura, California. The train was 12 minutes late. As I gathered my things to step off, I worried that the delay would put us behind schedule. I was escorting five team members from San Diego-based...
Mindfulness Moment: Do the thing you think you cannot do
The other day I tried to open my closet door but the door of my nightstand was open, prohibiting the closet door from opening. I soon realized no amount of force would work. It was as only when I closed the night stand door that the closet door could easily slide...
4 Ways Introverts Excel As Leaders
What do Charles Darwin, Candice Bergen and Michael Jordan have in common? They’re all introverts. So are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Mark Zuckerberg. When we think about the personality traits that effective leaders need, we typically think of people who are...