This excerpt from my book, Own Your Own Shift has resonated with a number of my successful, driven clients. Ironically, our desire to accomplish our goals, gain the approval of our community, and grow our careers and businesses can actually create the opposite effect we desire. To really grow personal influence and impact we must understand how to slow down before we can speed up. For decades I have often been complimented for being “driven”. Many people asked me how I manage

Whether you believe Donald Trump is the best thing the United States has ever seen, or that he leaves a scar on the nation that may never heal, his brand evokes strong emotion in all of us like little else ever has.  The brand lessons leaders in every arena need to learn from him can, in fact, heal this country, if we will put them into action. To be clear, a personal brand is what grows our influence and our impact. Personal brands help executives grow their careers, politic

Whether you own a company, or are growing your career, you have a personal brand. Your brand is what drives your influence and impact – not only in business, but in all your relationships. No matter how much you have already achieved in life, you occasionally need to take stock of how you are showing up. When you do, there will be four clear signs that it is time to reinvent your personal brand for continued personal growth and transformation. Sign #1: You’re Attracting the W

It’s hardly a secret that very few New Year’s goals are met. What is a secret is that there are 7 deadly sins of goal-setting that are at the root of the goal pandemic. Ultimately, we are what stands in our own way. However, if there was ever a year we need to change that scenario, it’s 2021! Collectively, we have been trying to hack the New Year goal-setting success code for 4000 years, since the Babylonians began the tradition. If this New Year’s is like previous ones, 92%

Recently I have been exploring the must-read books you would recommend. And you really came through! Since I have already grabbed several of your top choices for myself, and found them exceptional, I can’t help sharing your favorites (and one of my own!) to life up those of us in need of some inspiration right now. Most CEOs read 3-4 books a month.  If you are like me, that’s because we are always looking for innovative ways to amplify our effectiveness, accelerate growth and

Our success and happiness are largely determined by the decisions we make. And our stress level is largely determined by how we decide. We each make approximately 35,000 decisions every day. If we never slept, that would be almost 1 decision every 2 seconds. How is that even possible? Well, most of those decisions are routine and not even conscious. They happen in the blink of an eye – just 1/10th of a second. It is enough to stress us out just thinking about it! Add in the s

Unstoppable determines the ability to commit to success. There is nothing fragile about it. Being unstoppable is the ultimate act of self-confidence. Of course, success itself isn’t always easy to define. There is the definition our parents or society provided to us. Then there is our own inner definition we might not even be fully aware of. Ultimately, success is what provides us happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment and personal growth – even when it means breaking with trad