Archive for September 2009

Do You Have a Leadership Accent?

I heard an interesting message yesterday at church. One of the questions asked of the leaders, and volunteers was this: “do you have a leadership accent?”. What is a leadership accent you ask? Well, the message went on… Most of us have an accent. You can tell almost immediately if someone is from the south, [...]

Motivation 101 – One Essential Trick To Stay Motivated

I love this commercial. I think of it almost any time I say to myself, “I’m tired”, or “I just don’t feel right”. It’s usually around the time I need to go to the gym, but it happens other times too. “I don’t feel like changing the baby”, “I don’t feel like getting up”. It’s [...]

Complaining Versus Fixing – Being a Fixer instead of A Complainer

Ever meet one of those people who constantly complains? “This is too hot”, “that’s too cold”, “this isn’t working”, “I don’t like that”, the list goes on and on. And, what’s funny, is they never actually fix anything they complain about. It’s as if they really just enjoy complaining about it. Nothing is really wrong [...]

11 Simple Hacks for Eating Healthy

“The health of people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their power as a state depend.”
- Benjamin Disraeli One of the key factors to a peaceful, purposeful and happy life is diet. For me personally, I feel much more balance, control, and powerful when I’m eating right. For me it’s [...]

2009 Goals Update and Productivity Tools – What works and what doesn’t?

Late last year I had done a lot of reading on zenhabits, and other minimalst goal setting websites that talked about setting only minimal goals, in fact some even advocated setting just one goal and working on that until it’s done. So when it came time for me to draw out what I wanted to [...]