The New Currency

What if your compensation was based on the quantity and quality of your optimism, inspiration, and acknowledgment of the people you lead? How would your pay change?

Vary your approach to your leadership style to remain progressive, in-touch and fresh.

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How to Break Through Fear and Ignite Your Brilliance

Inspired Leadership

Inspired leadership starts with individual integrity. Take an inventory of your thoughts and actions to see if they are congruent with your highest values. Ask yourself, "Am I being the best example of what I expect in others?"

Hidden Among Us

Last week, I drove past a landscape of flags that caught my attention and later found out that each of the 3,548 flags represented 5 people (children, adults and seniors) that have been fed by the Good Cheer Food Bank. These flags brought to light the extent of the need to feed the hungry right in our own community. It was shocking to learn these staggering numbers and it prompted my wife and I to learn more about the organization that supported these people in need.

"Hidden Among Us" by artist Debra Calkins

Your role as a leader is to recognize the need to integrate community as an important part of your business and life.

How can you use your leadership skills to make a positive difference in your community?

The Leadership Walk

An amazing thing happens when someone teaches a child to walk. The support is unconditional, unwavering and focused on celebrating the success of each step and cheering past each fall. The encouragement to learn never stops.

Imagine if you took this simple strategy and applied it to a difficult situation, to your business, your job or your role as a parent. What would happen?

Imagine if you applied this to yourself.

If you did, you would be walking in the shoes of a brilliant leader!

Feeling Off

Last week was an interesting week. Going into the weekend starting with Friday was a little odd for no particular reason. It was a cloudy, drizzly day for a Washington summer and things just weren't lining up. The best way to put it is, I felt off. So off that the next day when I saw a friend pass by in his vintage Mercedes leaving the farmers market, I called him 'swiffy'. Well, there's no such word! I meant to say 'spiffy'.

We all have those days when we feel 'off' for one reason or another. Instead of trying to figure out who, what or why, give yourself permission to accept it for what it is.

Sometimes in our business and life, we roar at less than 100% and veer off track once in a while. It's natures way of righting an imbalance and signals us to slow down and enjoy the view along the way and to pay attention to the things that matter.

Interestingly, later that same weekend, I saw my friend and we talked about 'swiffy'. He too shared his stories of being 'off' on those same days.

So be patient with yourself and others. You never know when someone may be having an 'off' day.