Asserting Your Value with Courage

Uncovering our hidden strengths so we can get to a point where we begin to comprehend our true worth can be a grueling process. Without overcoming the self-imposed limits we’ve placed on our own value, often for years or even decades, there’s little chance of genuine modesty being involved in situat...

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Overcoming Self-Imposed Limits

I mentioned earlier how difficult it’s been to establish appropriate cost structures for the services we provide, especially as we first got started. Although we were building a level of confidence in our area of strength, coming to terms with our worth - even after reflecting on guidance from our c...

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Reflecting Through Guidance

Uncovering my own worth and uncovering my hidden strengths have likely been the biggest challenge I’ve had to work through in my career, maybe in my entire life. My work ethic and drive to keep up as best I could regardless of who I was competing against certainly helped offset some of my self-impos...

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Uncovering Your Hidden Strengths

To lead with influence over authority, to fully utilize the strength of humility, to ever begin to develop others, or to even capture the slightest return on investment from our relationships, we’ve got to realize that we are indeed capable and worthy of all those things. Without knowing your worth,...

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Humility in Mentoring Others

Make no mistake, the part I was raising my hand about had nothing to do with “the great people” I’ve known - but I have indeed underestimated the value I can add to others through one-on-one mentorship. Later on, we’ll take a focused look at how some of the most humble mentors I’ve had in my life ha...

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Relationships as a Learning Network

Not long ago, I had the opportunity to interview Mark Cole (CEO of Maxwell Leadership) for our Leading At The Next Level podcast and to promote him as the wrap up keynote speaker at our 2025 LeadershipLegacy Experience. Cindy and I have received some amazing mentorship from Mark over the last decade...

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The Hidden Power of Professional Relationships

Just a few months before accepting the position I started immediately after getting married, I interviewed for a role with responsibility for the behavior-based safety process that I had been involved with for a year or so prior on a volunteer basis. In addition to performing the observations that p...

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The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Life and leadership are filled with good and bad.  Some of the good and bad will find us.  But if we have a positive life stance whether it’s the good or the bad finding us, we will keep the best perspective possible in any situation. 

In applying this to leadership, we need to remind ourselves th...

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Strong Convictions, Questionable Approach…

“Although Jefferson left the cabinet voluntarily, Washington never forgave him for his actions, and never spoke to him again.” 

The wikipedia article on Jefferson, while detailing his time as Washington’s Secretary of State, shared how staunchly opposed he was to Alexander Hamilton’s view on the (n...

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Don’t Shy Away From Losses

The only way we can learn through success is by learning from failures along the way.

John Maxwell is currently writing a book titled, Return on Failure. As a matter of fact, he will share things like…Do something so big that failure is the option. In other words, you likely won’t get it right the...

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