Hot emotions lie. They scream danger when your safe and kiss you with happiness during self-destructive choices.
Conflict intensifies when passions govern your mouth.
Feelings make overstatements.
Emotions distort time.
Passion blurs reality.
Here are some ways to translate hot emotions into positive actions.
A leader with a closed mind has a disengaged team.
Disengagement begins in the mind.
Leaders who close minds defeat themselves.
A leader with a closed mind is working too hard.
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Disposition determines decisions. You want to believe you’re open-minded, but your disposition narrows your focus.
Disposition shapes perception and predicts responses.
Read this post to expand your opportunities to grow and lead.
Performance goals are useful, but learning goals transform. Learning goals emphasize development. Performance goals target achievement.
A leader told me he was learning a lot. I asked, “What are you learning?” He couldn’t name anything.
You aren’t learning if you don’t know what you’re learning.
How to set learning goals…
Sadness is easy. Happiness is about patterns. You don’t choose self-defeating negativity; it finds you.
This post explains how to use future-facing emotions to eliminate self-defeating negativity.
Measure the impact of your leadership by the energy you ignite in others.
Skillful leaders multiply energy. Incompetent leaders exhaust people.
How is people’s energy after spending time with you?
