The Soul Felt Its Worth
Friends who don’t celebrate Christmas wish me Merry Christmas. It’s generous and kind. I feel respected. One website says “Oh Holy Night” was written by an atheist, Placide Cappeau. My reading indicates he… Continue reading
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Christmas, Deadlines, and Urgency
Christmas is motivation for procrastinators. The goal of showing love makes this deadline matter.
Deadlines don’t matter until goals have meaning.
Urgency is a function of caring. When you own goals they create focus, decisiveness, and action.
10 Questions to Establish and Evaluate Urgency
The Question I’ve Never Asked
Two young men, in a small coffee shop, taught me about leadership.
George and Tyler left on Christmas Eve to serve at a children’s home in Beirut. They’re back for classes. Yesterday, we met to talk.
I asked a question I’ve never asked.
5 Actions That Grow Heart
The Grinch hated Christmas – the whole Christmas season. Now, please don’t ask why.
But I think that the most likely reason of all… may have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
5 Actions that Grow Heart
Questions Aren’t Curiosity
There’s no curiosity when you know the answer.
Questions that end with verbs aren’t curious. They’re controlling.
“We agree this was the best option, don’t we?”
“That’s what we decided, correct?”
Leaders ask questions but haven’t learned to inquire.
Work questions move work forward. Curious questions move people forward.
How to practice curiosity?
Thinking Doesn’t Make It So
Thinking doesn’t make it so. It makes it likely.
If you think you’re a grasshopper, you are. But thinking you’re a lion makes you delusional. Self-belief doesn’t bring fantasies to life, unless it’s negative.
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