All effective leaders do this. Loving parents find a way to do it even when kids are serving up their ugliest side. Even your spouse who wants to stay married to you finds a way to do this important thing for you in hard times. What about you? Do you
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You know those deep desires and urges within you that you couldn’t change even if you wanted to? I’m talking about those inner forces that seem to drive you from the inside out. Those are your X Factor. For example, the need to make plans and decisions lightning fast. Perhaps
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What if Goldilocks were a teenager, just learning to drive? What’s more, she’s your daughter. Like many of us whose kids are fast approaching driving age, you would eventually have to let her get in a car… by herself. Shed actually get to drive away, without you, into the big
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Can you trust yourself to make good decisions? Talk about a loaded question! Ever been tempted to just let Magic 8 Ball make the call? Just say no… unless it’s about an ice cream flavor. I don’t know about you, but my honest answer to this seems dependent on the
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Last week, we were talking about getting more from your time by asking this simple question: Is there a difference between where you want to go and where you’re actually going? But now, it’s time for me to come clean. The question is easy to ask. But the answer can
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Want more from your time? For all of you with inbox OVERWHELM, workplace BURNOUT, or out-of-school DECISION FATIGUE, here’s a simple step you can take today to get more from your time. It doesn’t require you to read, watch or listen to hours of incredible wisdom from accomplished, happy thought
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School is out! And for those of you whose daily life instantly changes due to this fact, congratulations! The “Gauntlet of Exhausting Awesomeness” (i.e., recitals, graduations, tournaments, parties, etc.) is now complete and a new season begins. Have you already created a plan full of clever ways to keep yourself
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While each of us needs help at some time in our lives (and if we’ll admit it, we need it often) for a variety of reasons, we find it very difficult to admit that we do… or worse, to ask for it even when we admit it. To paraphrase an
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This week, we’re wrapping up the book study on becoming Intelligently Emotional. Even though the study may be coming to a close, the process (for most of us) is an ongoing target. We’ve said plenty about the value of controlling our emotions. Emotional control is the foundation of living from
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Emotions are forces that drive us to either become our best or display our very worst. But how does that work? It turns out that it happens one emotional choice at a time. Acting on one unintelligent emotion after another takes you further away from the direction you’re designed to
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Do you conduct a post mortem analysis every time you believe a relationship has gone wrong? It’s a pretty common thing to do if you’re feeling hurt. It can haunt you if you’re a particularly sensitive person. Or it may just anger you more if you don’t understand any of
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Why can’t general cookie-cutter advice about self-control (a.k.a. emotional control) work for every person? And why do some people always seem so calm and collected in the face of conflict? Some of us are literally biting our nails off to keep from saying what we really want to say. The
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