Gratitude in Staff Meetings
One day my daughter came home from work bubbling. She was in a really extreme, positive state. She told us […]
Why I Started a Gratitude Journal
I have been keeping a gratitude journal since 2010. Once I started, I immediately began to notice positive differences and it was easy to keep going. Today I look back at over 1,500 pages. Each page is precious. Deciding to keep a gratitude journal was a very good thing to do.
Discovering the Underlying Template
As people pay the steep price for acquiring the positive perspective, they become more and more masterful. Eventually they gain a theory of influence that allows them to inspire positive change in any situation. They may make mistakes, like Harbaugh did in asking about George Halas, but they tend to recover. If we look for them, even in strange places, like a TV show, we can choose to learn from them and we can accelerate our own efforts to become masters of positive influence.
Forbes Article
I am grateful to Dr. Rodger Duncan for the wonderful write-up he gave my book, “The Positive Organization” in Forbes yesterday. […]
Why Entrepreneurs Fail
Everyone in the foregoing scenario tends to believe that his or her situation is unique. The entire process is often explained in terms of personalities. Everyone is angry about the mean-spirited “politics” that have occurred. If these people were to read these paragraphs, they would be shocked to realize that someone unassociated with their situation could describe it so closely.
Determination and Openness
The entire leadership industry is based on the assumption of imitation. It is assumed that if we learn what a […]
Persistence and the Alteration of Cultural Dynamics
The enactment of committed purpose is much more powerful than words. When we courageously move forward we initiate the dynamics of cultural change. To do so is to empower one’s self.
Self-Love
I think we almost never entertain the countercultural question, “What do I love about me?” When we answer it, when […]
Purpose and Empowerment
We are empowered when we clarify our purpose. It is the moment when we finally say “This is who I am, this is where I going, and I will endure what I must endure in order to go there.”
Increasing Awareness and The Fundamental State of Leadership
Whether or not we enter the fundamental state of leadership is a choice we make. It is entirely under our control. Because most people stay in the reactive state, most people act like victims. To identify a result we really want to create is to change our current psychological state. We take charge of the only thing you can really control.