Category Archive: Personal Growth

16 Secrets for Multipliers

Stop managing—join the ranks of multipliers. Great leaders don’t add effort, they expand impact. When you multiply your talent, you grow capacity without burning out.

The secret to doing more isn’t doing it all. It’s taking care of yourself and pouring into others.

Embrace the Power to Shape Your Life

I don’t want to choose where we eat. I usually don’t care. Some people don’t like making decisions.

You often defer to “experts.” Up to 75%* of us, for example, let doctors make important decisions for us.

Others shape your life when they make decisions for you. Sometimes it’s destructive.

Relationships with Discomforting People

Relationships take you places.

Include discomforting people in your relationship circle.

A kick in the pants is often more useful than a pat on the back (especially if you are already excelling).

Ask a stranger what they are great at. Follow up with, “How did you get great at that?”

A Contrarian Approach to Growth

Rigid certainty doesn’t think, it defends. In all your learning, learn to be a learner.

Arrogance knows. Humility grows.

#1. Wait for the what-about moment.

#2. Listen to people you don’t like.

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How to Outsmart Bad Habits

Feed me! Feed me! Feed me! Bad habits scream for attention like hungry babies. When you break a bad habit, you wrestle to quiet self-defeating comforts.

Unhealthy practices are bondage-makers. The longer you do them, the easier they become.

Bad habits aren’t defeated. Here’s what to do instead.

Progressive Leaders Know the Answer to “How” is “Who”

It’s normal to ask, “How are we going to reach our goals?” Results don’t magically appear. They depend on people.

Progressive leaders know the answer to “how” is “who”.

Don’t let conventional leadership limit your potential.

How to connect achievement to people?