Best-Self Leadership
5000 Miles to Bring My Horse to Sweet Home Alabama
What calling do you feel led to do? Sometimes, we need to “go for it” with “callings” when “feeling” and “thinking” makes us cautious. This article also is about doing something more meaningful than logical–traveling across the USA and back 5,000 miles to bring home a horse. For two years I lived in Washington State during […]
Teach how to live
“If you really want to help this world, what you will have to do is teach how to live in it.” -Joseph Campbell- Schools and colleges will increasingly teach students of best-self leadership and to write plans for school and life to apply what they learn plus identify callings and make choices. When we help […]
7 Best Practices to Lead Your Life
These synthesized life lessons provide a core strategy for preparing and taking action as your best-self: LEAD your LIFE. Choose to identify and fulfill your callings, gifts, and talents; live as your best-self, prepared for action, increasingly strong and resilient. PLAN for LIFE. Discern your callings and write your choices for the life you […]
The 7 Areas of Life
The 7 Areas of Life Everything we do falls into one or more of these 7 Areas of Life. Activities listed within the 7 Areas below cover most things we do: Physical: breathe, eat, sleep, bathe, groom, and exercise to survive and care for physiological needs, providing a platform of health and energy. Financial: budget, purchase, and invest […]
5 Principles that Boost Leadership and Empowerment Practices
Principles that Drive Practices Leading to Better Empowerment True professionals proactively and respectfully earn empowerment rather than wait for it—planning, stating intent, getting feedback, improving, and working with cooperation…. Best-Self Servant Leaders state intent, expectations, and parameters to boost initiative and trust, decrease confusion and conflict, and improve preparation and promotion aimed at mission, desired […]
Choose Where to Earn Empowerment
It is not necessary to earn empowerment (to become competent and confident) in all things, just the important. Seek to master your callings, gifts, and talents as well as master your “Goliaths” that threaten. Earn trust in self and from others for vital Plans, Actions, Results.
Nobel’s “World Betterment Remedy: The Seven Rights”
Claes Nobel, the senior member of the Nobel Prize family, delivered the keynote address for the 50th anniversary of the International Services Council of Alabama – now Global Ties Alabama. “My dear, most respected audience,” Nobel said in his keynote address, on March 6, 2015, at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, “together we can change the […]
7 Components of Attitude & Ability to Develop to Earn Empowerment
A leader using the Dyson Empowerment Model will consider trust level for the 7 components of Attitude and of Ability to assess whether to delegate or direct for a particular role. The true professional anticipates what the leader expects, assesses self, outlines a plan for keeping promises and developing self, plus states intent so the leader […]
Decide Who You Want to Be to Inspire What you will Plan and Do
Col. Stretch Dunn (USA Ret) presented a short seminar at the Life Leaders meeting on “Best-Self Leadership.” He included this definition of a “true professional.” “True Professional: person who seeks mastery and earned empowerment through trust in character and competence, preparing and persisting to develop fitness and habits to do the harder right well—instinctively—even under stress.” […]
Best-Self Leadership Strategy
7 Best Practices to Lead Your Life If a child asked, “How do I do my best?”, how would you answer? A common answer, “work hard and have a good attitude.” It’s good advice though not complete or very deep. You have a chance to share your best-self strategy and have impact on a colleague […]
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