What Leaders Should Focus on to Ensure Current and Future Success
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This article is inspired by an incredibly thought-provoking idea that Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva delivered during a recent workshop I hosted for my followers. You can get the recording here: Why You Need to Reinvent Your Organization (and Yourself) Every Three Years. What do organizational leaders most commonly focus on? In my experience, most organizational leaders […]
Becoming a More Positive Influence: Investigate and Improve Your Why
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Your goal orientation plays a driving role in your effectiveness and success as a person, parent, employee, leader, etc. Thus, if you do want to be effective and successful, it is important to question your “why.” What goal orientation do you have? If you have anything but a mastery orientation you are surely putting a limit to how effective and successful you can be.
Do You Need a Mental Success Coach?
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Moral of the story: How we think matters! It matter to the success of organizations, leaders, teams, and employees.
Cognitive Dissonance: Why You May Be Preventing the Success You are Seeking
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Many are unwilling to learn and become better because their egos prevent them from acknowledging that, although they were likely doing their best, their ignorance and prior actions have been less than ideal.
The Key to Solving Your Problems
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The reality is that most of our problems deal with our thinking, learning, and/or behaviors. If that is the case, we need to reach into a deeper level for our solutions. That level is our mindsets.
To Become Mindful, You Must Know Your Mindsets
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Whenever I see leadership changes, I can’t help but think that what lied at the root of their inability to be more successful was themselves, and in particular their lack of mindfulness and lack of understanding of the mindsets that drive their non-conscious automatic processes.
The 25 Benefits of Mindfulness According to Research
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Over 4,000 scholarly articles on mindfulness suggests that we should be taking it much more seriously. As a result, we are starting to see organizations such as Google, Aetna, mayo Clinic, and the U.S. Army adopt mindfulness training. This article identifies 25 clear benefits of mindfulness.
When I Read This… It Immediately Changed My Life
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When I read this story, I was immediately changed. I was changed because I became awake to something that, until then, had been hidden in my subconscious.
The Five-Step Process to Develop Positive Qualities
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The difference between the qualities that you have and the qualities that you want to possess is in how you see your world or, in other words, your mindsets. Thus, if you want to develop certain qualities that you do not yet have, it is essential that you change your mindsets.
Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership
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What causes people to see the same thing or encounter the same situation and interpret so differently? The difference is one’s mindsets. The reality is that the lenses we use to view the world largely determines the success we have in our life, work, and leadership.