"Acknowledge Your Positive Past:   Because the brain more easily remembers  events that were accompanied by strong emotions,  most people underestimate and underappreciate  the number of successes they've had in relation to the number of failures, they've had. One of the ways to counteract this phenomenon is to consciously focus on and celebrate your successes." -- Jack Canfield,  Principle 26 of The Success Principles I love Jack Canfield's book, The Success Principles. It contains 64 principles to success and all are short enough to read in a few minutes, come...Read More

"Real leadership is being the person  others will gladly and confidently follow." –John C. Maxwell The Maxwell Leadership Assessment is an online-based tool that offers a 360-degree in-depth view of an individual’s influence, based on Maxwell’s Five Levels of Leadership methodology. Leadership is influence, nothing more nothing less. To grow in leadership, one must grow in influence. This tool is designed to assess the individual leader according to 64 important factors along with self-assessment and anonymous feedback from supervisors, colleagues, direct reports, and others. Through this comprehensive 360-degree assessment, leaders...Read More

"Potential is one of the most wonderful words in any language." -- John C. Maxwell   John goes on to say this about potential. "It looks forward with optimism. It is filled with hope. It promises success. It implies fulfillment. It hints at greatness. Potential is a word based on possibilities." Then John asks this: "What about unfulfilled potential? That phrase is as negative as the word potential is positive. My friend Florence Littauer, a speaker and author, wrote a story in her book Silver Boxes about her father, who...Read More

Game Changer For Growth Want to grow? Become more? Most do. I am offering a complimentary tool that may change your life for the better. Though this is not free for me, it is a way for me to introduce myself to you. I will send you a link to an assessment and then I will talk to you on the phone to give you the results of that assessment that will be enlightening in many ways. Normally, I charge $100 minimum for this and it is my gift to...Read More

 "Leaders should get out of their comfort zonebut stay in their strength zone."-- John C. MaxwellIn Law #17 in John Maxwell's fabulous leadership book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, is The Law of Priorities. In this law, John talks about delegating activities to others as a way to expand as a leader. This also ties to the 12th law, The Law of Empowerment because as a leader, delegating tasks and authority to others not only frees you as a leader to be able to grow and expand and become...Read More