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Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Calm The Bleep Down.  If yoga breathing isn’t working, try counting or going for a walk. Whatever it takes, this too shall pass.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Continue to recalibrate to change in your life.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Define your own success at work. Don’t let others define it for you.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Define what’s important to you. At work, in your partnership, at home, wherever you are, focus on what really matters. It’s easy to get distracted by what we think we “should” be doing. But it will eventually exhaust us.

There is such a broad definition of leadership in our society. The definition spans Confident Humility and Brash Insecurity. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Be a leaders who is confidently humble, not brashly insecure.  

After recently visiting the midwest, I can better understand how isolation might turn people against the other. Coastal elites, diversity in the workforce, knowledge workers, they are less prevalent in the middle of the country. And indeed, it’s human to find reasons to justify personal pain by blaming others. Or a different experience is to look inward and ask […]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it here again. Be unapologetic in your life. One way to do it? Minimize fear. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Be unapologetic about who you are. Once you let your courage overcome the dark and fearful side, you can be more at peace with who you are, […]

The other day I received a note from a client with stats showing that purposeful companies are not that important to millennials. Most of what I’ve read and seen in trusted publications such as Fast co., HBR.org, IPR.org or gallup.com, millennials are looking for higher meaning at work. So who do we believe? No matter […]