10 Untapped Secrets to Vitality
Losing yourself is exhausting. Vitality rises when you stop working to prove yourself.
You’re most like your real self when you feel most alive.
Stress rises when you feel like a fraud.
You are your own raw material.
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Organizational Theater
Welcome to another Bob Bumblehoof post!
Bumblehoof trembles at being himself so he wears a mask. He feels like an imposter.
Organizational theater is life when you’re the great pretender.
Learn the Bumblehoof way: Puff up when you feel small. At least you can inspire job searches.
7 Quotes—7 Lessons
You can laugh (or at least smirk) and still walk away a little wiser. Here are seven leadership quotes. You decide if they’re funny or if they sting just enough to stick.
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
3 Practices to Change Trajectory
Life has trajectory. Sometimes it feels like your feet are tangled in the sheets. It doesn’t help to feel defeated because the present is disappointing.
We always live with feelings of “not yet” and “not there.”
3 Practices Change Life’s Trajectory
Stop Riding the Monkey
A leader who lives by impulse is like a dog riding the monkey. Appetite, pride, or emotional impulse yank them in every direction. Impulse in charge creates piles of rubble.
Don’t react, lead.
Skillful leaders rise above impulse. They cultivate control.
Freedom isn’t giving in; it’s self-control.
Here’s how…
Lousy Meetings = Pathetic Culture
The higher you rise, the more time you burn in meetings. Don’t waste those hours. Seize them.
Meetings aren’t just about updates or decisions. They’re the seeds of culture.
The way you treat people in the meeting shapes how they treat each other in the hall.
If you value relationships, prove it where it matters most: around the table.