Ok, so you blew it. Today wasn't the day that you had in mind and you fell short in some way. Whether it was an important deadline that you missed, criticism from your boss or that one child that seemed to never stop crying all day long, we all have bad days at work and at home. The question is - what are you going to do about it now? I remember days that I've had where it seemed as though nothing went right. It was one thing after another and when I got home at the end of that...
Choosing Your Attitude
I have a son who is 5 years old and just recently started Kindergarten. This has been a challenge for us and him because of new routines and new dynamics and realities in his life. He is much more tired and much more cranky than he was before he started going to school from 8:45am to 3:45pm. As I interact with him, I find that he is easily upset by things that don't go his way and he struggles to maintain a positive outlook on the things going on around him. In fact, I often find myself telling him to...
Leadership is Influence
It's important as we lay the groundwork for getting better at leading others, that we attempt a definition of the word leadership. Of course, it's been defined over and over by many leadership experts - and I'm not going to attempt to compete with what has already been written. I once had a pastor/leader that I deeply admired tell me that when he's writing a sermon that he tries to write so that a young child could understand it. That way he knew that just about anyone could understand what he was trying to convey. So, I would define leadership...