4 Practical Behaviors to Amplify Your Leadership Skills

I remember back in grade school after mastering the intricacies of addition and subtraction, I finally made it to the advanced mathematical concept of multiplication! I was so excited, raised my hand and told the teacher that it looks like multipl [...]

Steps to Feel More Engaged at Work

Maria, second-in-charge of a well-known nonprofit, wanted to step out as a leader. Her vision was to create a new model for working with vulnerable women in Boston’s urban communities. She gained insight through feedback from her team, colleagues, [...]

Strategies for Enjoying Your Workday

Self-care seems like a sacred word reserved for activities you do in the privacy of your home—things like yoga, long baths and quiet, meditative evenings. It’s a very deliberate form of care, a ritual we exercise full control over. But away from h [...]

3 Best Strategies for Strengthening Up Your Relationship

All day long, my wife and I exchange the sweetest text messages filled with emojis: hearts, the kissy face and the sweet new inclusive family one with two moms and two boys (we have twin sons). Sometimes we even go public with our moony proclamati [...]

How to Get the Job When You Don’t Have the Degree to Back It Up

Don’t let your lack of a degree halt your professional progress—follow these tips to stand out from the crowd and show employers what you have to offer.Companies need people, not collections of degrees. Despite that obvious truth, many people who [...]

10 Things You Must Do More Often in Order to Build an Enjoyable Life

Most of us constantly look for ways to improve our lives. We want to make more money, be more attractive, and be regarded more highly by our friends and our colleagues. We are on a mission to achieve more, earn more, and learn more. More often tha [...]

Why Your Business Should Focus on Effectively Outwitting Competitors

It shouldn’t be a case of getting out of the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat, it should rather be the case of not venturing into the kitchen. Any brand which was set up with the outlook that there won’t be competitors was started on the wrong [...]

20 Ways to Do Your Best and Be Successful

In order to be effective in our teaching, we must have rules and suggestions.In an interview with Marv Dunphy for his dissertation “John Robert Wooden: The Coaching Process,” Coach Wooden described the evolution of his approach to rules and sugges [...]

The Importance of Constant Self-Improvement

Coach John Wooden challenged himself every day with constant self-improvement: Never be satisfied. Work constantly to improve. Perfection is a goal that can never be reached, but it must be the objective. The uphill climb is slow, but the downhill [...]

15 Loving Quotes About the Joys of Motherhood

‘Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.’ It might be physically impossible to count the ways a mother expresses her love. Where loving warmth meets a teachable moment, that’s where you’ll find a mother, confidently wielding her [...]

3 Proven Ways to Increase Your Confidence

The first time I recognized it was at a flamenco show in Barcelona a few years back. I was mesmerized by the performance of a beautiful full-figured middle-aged woman. I couldn’t keep my eyes off her as she danced. My friends and I eventually dubb [...]

How to Deal With Difficult People

Have you ever found yourself dealing with difficult people? People who are hard to get along with? I want to give you three strategies to deal with difficult people. It starts with the acronym H.U.G.: 1. Hear them. Step back and really hear what [...]

7 Brave Steps to Become Fearless

Growing up on a farm in rural Australia, I spent countless hours riding the wild brumbies (horses) that came from the rugged Snowy Mountains. Or should I say, learning how not to fall off. Along the way, I not only became the local barrel race que [...]

How To Over Come Procrastination And Self Doubt

Procrastination and self-doubt are two of the biggest killers of dreams and goals. I’ve been there more than once in my life regarding some important goal I set for myself to achieve. Only when it comes time to take physical action on my plans in [...]

7 Skills You Need to Master Before You Can Achieve Success

As a hardworking entrepreneur, I need to regularly remind myself to look up and out. In the world of business and technology, reality often changes before I can put a coherent thought together. I try to stay on top of my social media accounts such [...]

4 Major Challenges All Businesses Face

It’s one thing to start a business. It’s quite another to make it successful. Success is a rough road, full of many twists and bends and no small number of obstacles along the way. There are a number of obstacles that all businesses face, regardl [...]

How to Lose and Still Be a Winner

You may be wondering, How does one lose and still be a winner? Surely once a person has suffered defeat, they are deemed the “loser” of the bout right? In the tangible sense, this would hold true. However, one can take a loss and still be consider [...]