I recently listened to an excellent episode of the Lead to Win podcast by Michael Hyatt and his cohost (and daughter) Megan Hyatt Miller. The topic was achieving your most important goals, and Michael and Megan shared a simple yet brilliant strategy they titled “The 3×3 Goal Achievement Strategy.” I highly recommend you listen to
I have a question for you. Do you feel more productive and accomplished when you’ve stayed busy all day—checking things of your list, making phone calls, answering texts, sending emails, attending meetings, running errands, etc.—or when you’ve hunkered down, focused, and made significant progress on one particular problem or project? There’s no right or wrong
Last week we began considering how closely linked are the virtues of Self-Control and Self-Discipline. A very simple explanation of the two is that Self-Control is about controlling reactions and keeping urges in check, while Self-Discipline is about persevering and maintaining positive habits. So how are reactions and habits connected? As I noted in my
Self-Control. It is an incredibly important and powerful trait, with a very big job description. It is responsible for keeping your temper in check, it’s in charge of holding your tongue, it is required to prevent you from eating all of the Girl Scout cookies at once, and it must be ever vigilant in the
I do not know with whom the following quote originated, and I believe there are a few different variations floating around the internet, but wherever it came from, it’s a good one: “We cannot force someone to hear a message they are not ready to receive. But we must never underestimate the power of planting
I recently watched a fascinating TED talk on the secrets of learning a new language. The presenter, Lýdia Machová is a polyglot—meaning she can fluently speak multiple languages. As the talk began and Machová first revealed her ability to speak no less than eight languages, I immediately knew she was a lot smarter than me!
Last week I shared the above tongue-in-cheek meme on LinkedIn depicting the “comprehensive list of everything you’re entitled to and what the world owes you.” As you can see, it was a blank piece of note paper. I received a lot of responses on the post (thankfully all positive), including a quote shared by one
You may have heard this Maya Angelou quote before, but I want you to take a few moments right now to read it and really let it sink in: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.“ You
