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 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...

Doing our best and helping others do their best fulfilling our callings for the greater good. -David Dyson...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” –Horace...