Leadership in the Rain: A Tale of Two Mindsets
You’ll never know the success that’s waiting on the other side unless you’re brave enough to step out, wade through, and give it your all.
A Side of Perspective
This funny incident does provide us some insights into how quick we can be to make assumptions and establish opinions with little information. Our brains are programmed to be lazy and use our prior experiences to make quick easy decisions. It’s when we take our assumptions, withhold a quick decision and test those assumptions against more information or contrary information that we make better decisions. How often do we take a position on a matter that really if we simply looked at the other side of the coin, it’s not really a big deal.
Confidence Leads to Progress
Building Block Two in this series [meant to outline the Four Building Blocks to Move to Advisory Services] is Confidence. How do we move our organizations towards advisory services? How do we seize our future by being relevant starting now? I think there are four foundational building blocks. Last week, we discussed the first block: MINDSET SHIFT. I say this to combat ... Read more
Educating, Influencing and Encouraging a New Growth Mindset
In my previous blog, we talked about “the gap” and our need for a wake-up call regarding moving to an advisory services mindset. So how do we move our organizations towards advisory services? How do we seize our future by being relevant starting now? I think there are four foundational building blocks, and we’ll discuss the ... Read more
How to Avoid the Sunk Cost Trap
CeCe and I have signed up with a group of friends for an outdoor excursion that involves riding in all-terrain army vehicles, hiking and some mountain top sightseeing. Unfortunately, it has been raining cats and dogs for three days. We meet for lunch together before heading to the excursion and our conversations turn to the ... Read more
Our Best Is Yet To Come
CeCe is passionate about several variations of barre and loves her daily workouts. Frequently, I get a riveting (hehe) recap of these workouts for the day as we visit before dinner. Tonight, she is expressing her frustration with her ability to bend her left knee sufficiently to hold a certain position properly. She had a ... Read more
Helping Clients Feel Less Vulnerable
It’s 8 a.m. and I’m sitting in a very cold medical exam room. The dermatologist will be in any minute to begin my annual full-body exam. Gosh, all I can think about is how humiliating this is. It’s hard to have the discipline to do this every year. There’s the soft knock… then after an eternity, ... Read more
What’s Driving Your Decisions?
One of the MANY things I admire about CeCe is she never suffers from or allows her decisions to be influenced by FOMO. We recently had friends invite us on a trip, and I immediately started advocating for us to join in the fun. CeCe paused a moment and asked, “Do you think we will enjoy ... Read more
