Plan for School & Life
Earn empowerment rather than wait for it.
Earn empowerment rather than wait for it. Admit that you are more responsible for your performance and career growth than is your supervisor. Identify your desired results and actions in your professional plan. Anticipate what your supervisory leader needs to trust you have earned empowerment. Help your manager serve as a mentor by stating your […]
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.” […]
7 Areas to Plan, Assess, Reward Professionally
7 Areas to Plan, Assess, Reward Professionally What gets rewarded proves more likely to get repeated. What we put on our scopes as targets has a better chance of getting aimed at and hit. Improving the design of what we plan, assess, and reward improves results seeking to inspire and guide good people to do […]
Life’s Most Important Questions
Daily and in moments of choice, seek answers for these two questions: God, what would you have me do? Now, what would my best-self do? If you write your callings and choices in your plan for life, and review them daily, you will find yourself benefiting from better decisions, inspiration, and focus.
The Purpose of Life
My suggestion for the universal mission statement: To live a spiritual journey–faithfully; love and serve others–meaningfully; and do my best–joyously. This can be part of your Life Mission Statement or the three main parts may encourage you to write your statement. David
Plan to Stretch Your Mind
Man’s mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes When we push ourselves to expand beyond routine, we expand our capacities. Significant events, experiences, education can change us–over time, so can seemingly small improvements in attitude, fitness, and use of time. You likely know people who went […]
Radio Program with Lou Vickery January 30: Steps to Set Resolutions
Lou and I discussed: 7 Steps to Set a Resolution and applications for his listeners, for students, and veterans making comebacks. For more information, write to me: David@LifeLeadersInstitute.org
All we Deserve is a Chance
All any of us deserve is a chance. It’s a gift, a bonus, if we also find help, friendship, and love. In good times and bad, our call is to do our best with our callings, gifts, and talents. Our best-selves is the goal. Seeking significance is a higher value than success. To fulfill our […]
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