perspective

Five Practical Lessons from a World Champion

Leadership

Few people have the rare opportunity to sit in the company of genuine World Champions, athletes who have trained and disciplined their minds and bodies to do what very few are ever able to do—consistently win and succeed in their sport and in life.  If you ever get the chance to spend some time with [...]

Tagged as: Life, Life lessons, perspective

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28: What We Can Learn from Ants

Leadership

The Office, the popular TV show, resonates with millions of viewers, I’m told, because it presents true to life office scenarios.  Really?! Call me uptight, square, or stick-in-the-mud, but I just don’t get it.  I imagine that a show about employees earning a paycheck by setting a high standard for themselves, delivering excellence, and surpassing [...]

Tagged as: Character, Life Prompts, perspective

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27: Living a Day without Excuses

Faith

I’d be nicer to you, but… I’d lose weight, but… I’d stop being afraid, but… I’d work on my marriage, but… I’d take a risk, but… I’d forgive you, but… I’d take a chance on my dream, but… Excuses.  We’ve all succumbed to them at one point in our life—for a second… an hour… a [...]

Tagged as: Dreams, Excuses, Life, perspective

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Day 19: Testing Your Framework

31-Day Writing Challenge

Welcome to Day 19 of the 31 Day Story Writing Challenge.  For the last 18 days you have devoted yourself to write slices of your story from your personal perspective. The process has stretched you, but now it’s time to stretch a little more — if fact, you will have two days to complete today’s [...]

Tagged as: perspective, revision, truth

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Day 17: Humor to Break Down Walls

31-Day Writing Challenge

Welcome to Day 17 of the 31 Day Story Writing Challenge.  Yesterday’s exercise was all about building trust .  Today, it’s about finding some humor in your story.  Let’s begin. Humor Helps Revise Old Narratives During my master’s degree graduation ceremony, while all the undergraduates were receiving their diplomas, the honor students were announced first, [...]

Tagged as: Audience, humor, perspective

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Day 16: Story to Build Trust

31-Day Writing Challenge

Welcome to Day 16 of the 31 Day Story Challenge. Whether it took you 15 days or 90 days to get to this lesson, you should be very proud of yourself.  Either you are a man or woman of your word or you are serious about your calling to write your story.  Bravo! If you [...]

Tagged as: letter, perspective, Power of Story, trust

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Triage for a Tired Blog and its Blogger

Social Media

“I feel like I’m spinning my wheels with a blog I’ve written for two years. Virtually no traffic, so what’s the point? How do I draw people to my blog (new readers)?” Dear Tired, Of course you are frustrated – and with good reason! Who wants to spend hours crafting and editing blog posts that [...]

Tagged as: Audience, Blogging, perspective, Platform

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What Are You Doing?

Leadership

There’s an old story about a man who came upon a construction site where three people were working. He asked the first, What are you doing? And the man answered, I’m laying bricks. He asked the second, What are you doing? And the man answered, I am building a wall. He walked up to the [...]

Tagged as: perspective, vision, writing

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