Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “If you would create something, you must be something.” Empowerment is about improving your ability to lead yourself and others effectively. How you go through your leadership journey is just as important as what you go through. Being empowered to operate at your best enables you to experience the best. […]
If you want to know the potential of a person, look at their bookshelf. In fact, a person’s bookshelf reveals their capacity for growth. Leaders are readers. You will never meet a highly successful person that isn’t an avid reader of books that help them grow. And I can tell you I have yet to come […]
Get off the bleachers and get into the game of faith. We need to be in it to win it when it comes to making a difference. We weren’t created to spectate; we were created to participate. You have been endowed with gifts and talents that are unique only to you. We impact people by […]
The concept of honor has all but been erased from my generation and those that have come after. Honoring those in authority over us has become confused with earning respect. Honor is not dependent on performance or likability; it is something due to every person based on their intrinsic worth as human beings. Choosing to […]
Great leaders are like sponges; they soak up as much as they can from their leaders. Early in my leadership journey, I was fortunate to be surrounded by leaders who poured into my life, but I learned it was up to me to be available for what they had to offer. I remember a critical […]
The greatest skill that you could ever develop is to be an influencer. It’s the one thing that you need to become in order to do succeed with others. Your capacity to change the world is dependant on your ability to influence others. It’s the greatest tool you have to make a difference. The dictionary […]
In order to concentrate, the human brain is wired to focus on only what it absolutely needs to focus on. This is called your RAS (Reticular Activation System). The RAS is located at the base of the brain and acts as a filter against unnecessary data. We are receiving million of data signals all throughout […]
There is a massive problem in our country centered around the inability to vacate. This problem limits people to fulfill their God-given potential. But we must understand that we cannot be our best if we don’t know how to rest. Research has shown that employees who take consistent vacation days receive better scores on their […]
Words are not only powerful, but they’re prophetic as well. They can become a self-fulfilling prophecy of our future. We all have conversations with ourselves in our minds. In fact, I would argue that the most important conversation we daily have is the one with ourselves. There is no one you spend more time with […]
Success is a very subjective term. In fact, if you were to line up ten different people you would probably get ten different definitions. There is no one definition that success could hold to because it is what you make it to be. So what is success? If you haven’t defined what success is for […]