Courage: The Final Frontier of Leadership

I believe that courage is the Final Frontier of leadership. Without courage, every other leadership quality is compromised and overall leadership ability diminishes. Leadership can only progress so far without courage. John Maxwell refers to this progress inhibiter as...

Keeping Your Passion

How passionate are you? Does it show? Being inspired is one thing, but executing on that inspiration is the key to developing and maintaining passion.  One definition of passion is any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, such as love or hate. Another is a...

Trouble with the Change-Up

In 2012, Clint Eastwood starred in the movie “Trouble with the Curve,” a film that portrays the elusiveness of the curve ball pitch in the ranks of professional baseball.  Fastball, slider, curveball, change-up; these are the tools of the pitcher’s trade and the test...

Dare to be Different

I am motivated by the desire to allow people to fail in order to improve. It wasn’t something that I thought about and then instituted, instead it stemmed from a heart-centered desire to help others become successful, content, happy, and motivated in their work. I...

Failing Into Success

Fail is a painful 4-letter word to most of us, but if we allow it to, that word can provide us with the rewarding 4-letter word; Grow.  ‘Failing into Success’ may be a foreign concept to some of you, but I believe that it is our greatest opportunity to grow and become...