When we see others’ worth and we’re humbly willing to make ourselves available to them, the time we invest supports their growth in ways we may never fully comprehend. We can easily count the seeds in an apple, but we can’t count the number of apples that come from one seed. By valuing others and be...

Near the beginning of chapter six of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, titled “Time Hacker’s Handbook,” Daniel Pink challenges readers to “Reply quickly email” and shares this:

“Email response time is the single best predictor of whether employees are satisfied with their boss, acco...

Earlier as we looked at maximizing the return on investment in relationships, I stressed the importance of choosing them wisely and nurturing those relationships to ensure everyone involved had ample opportunity for growth. While identifying the key experts we’ll need in our lives in order to compen...

As I closed our look at Knowing Your Worth by sharing a few steps for crafting a lasting influence, I mentioned how something as silly as a complimentary email series (known today as A Daily Dose Of Leadership) that was initially meant to help our new business stay top-of-mind with the executives an...

The first fundamental lesson in Josh Waitzkin’s book, The Art of Learning, is to Value the Process.  If you’ve been following here you may have read my (Cindy) last blog, Outside Growth, Inside Growth and remember that in his book Josh offers some foundational principles we can apply to The Art of L...

Growth can be a vulnerable area, especially when we are working hard to grow on the inside.  In a way, it reminds me of a hermit crab.  The hermit crab is well protected by its shell, until it outgrows it.  As the shell starts becoming uncomfortable, the crab knows it’s time to look for another shel...

In 2019, I (Cindy) hurt my back, which put me out of commission for around 2 weeks and months of pain afterward. Along with strengthening exercises, the best thing I could do involved (and still does) daily stretching. I’m not talking about those ‘just woke up from a nap’ stretch either.  The stretc...

In creating a lesson for our Leading at the Next Level courses around the Law of the Rubberband, I’m reminded more every day on the benefits of stretching ourselves in order to grow.  This law says, “growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you want to be.” There are th...