Accepting responsibility for choices starts with understanding where our choices lie. We may not choose what happens to us, but we do choose how to respond – or not.  more  

If we continue to do what we've always been doing, we will continue to get what we've always been getting. To get somewhere else, we need to grow into someone else.  more  

Improving my Influence Index, changing my choices and get to work on changing me to help change them.  more  

Stay out of a rut. Don't live on the Planet of the Aches, playing the blame game, or embracing our victim role.  more  

Lost the leader lottery? Strategies for dealing with an ineffectual superior.  more  

Strong leaders don't allow themselves to be victims of a bad boss. We may not be able to choose our boss, but we can choose how to respond to him or her.  more  

Leaders are made not born. Developing our "gift" starts with a clear and constant focus on where we're going, what we believe in, and why we exist — but it also demands persistence.  more  

Self-imposed mental wheelchairs hold so many people back from being highly effective leaders. Change what happens in our head, and the universe changes.  more  

The faster the world changes around us, the further behind we fall by just standing still. If the rate of external change exceeds our rate of internal growth, just as the day follows night, we will surely be changed.  more  

Dwelling on our problems rather than our possibilities comes all too naturally. Too often we choose to curse the darkness rather than light a candle.  more  

Holding on to destructive emotions is slow suicide. For our own health and happiness, we must exercise our choice to let go.  more  

Am I an optimist or pessimist? Which view is reality? Since we see the world as we are, either view becomes our reality. We choose our outlook.  more  

Although we cannot control every circumstance, we can control how we deal with the uncontrollable. Amid confusion, we must learn to recognize what can be changed and have the courage to change it.  more  

Change happens. We can't control much of the world changing around us. But we can control how we respond. We can choose to anticipate and embrace changes or resist them. The choice is ours.  more  

Grow with change by focusing on a vision, choosing your outlook, seeking authenticity, committing yourself with discipline and continue to grow and develop.  more  

Visioning is where my personal effectiveness quest began, in 1974. Even now, as I recall that turning point in my life, a shiver runs up my spine.  more  

Life is an endless series of choices, happy and successful people take responsibility for choices as well as consequences for their actions.  more  

We need to either find the work we love, or learn to love the work we have. Get passionate or get out.  more  

Don't wait – initiate! Leaders don't wait for something to happen or someone to tell them what to do.  more  

Optimists excite and arouse others to action by helping them see, believe in, and reach for what could be. To become effective leaders — to see beyond what is to what could be — we need to become "learned optimists."  more  

Effective leaders are made not born. If we are not working hard to continually improve our leadership skills because we weren't "born with natural talent" then we are either copping out, misinformed, or both.  more  

Leaders refuse to let fate or others control their destiny. Leaders take responsibility for their choices. Such strong leaders remind us that failure is an event, not a person. To fail to attempt is far worse than to attempt and fail.  more  

Optimistic, enthusiastic leaders more easily retain top people, compared with those bosses who tend toward negative moods. When the leader is in a happy mood, the people around him or her view everything in a more positive light.  more  

Leaders act on the belief that choice more than chance determines our circumstance. Leaders don't wait for something to happen, they make it happen.  more  

Looking back, we can all point to times in our lives that seem wasted. If we fail to continuously grow, change, and develop, then precious life is wasted.  more  

It's natural to strike out at someone or something that seems to be causing us problems. Instead of tackling the problem, poorly led teams devote their energies to allocating blame and avoiding responsibility.  more  

Now is the time to prepare for our next harvest. We can't wait until harvest time to plant the seeds. We can't strike a bargain to plant seeds once we see whether the harvest is worth the effort. Our choices accumulate in our personal choice accounts. We're accumulating deficits or surpluses with each decision we make.  more  

Strong management teams change and improve their organizations despite obstacles, handicaps and problems. It's called leadership.  more  

Many managers unwittingly believe that leadership only comes down from the top. They give away their power by believing that they don't have any.  more  

Embrace change is a useless platitude We often don't choose the difficulties or negative changes that spring upon us. But we always choose how we respond with these how-to steps for staying above the line.  more  

A well researched book, Emotional Intelligence, brings together the scientific proof that it's our attitude more than our aptitude that determines our altitude.  more  

Rarely do most people examine their own assumptions, beliefs, skills, behaviors, and learning levels to see how they created their own circumstances. There are many circumstances we can't control — but we can control how we deal with the uncontrollable.  more  

Establishing goals and priorities, getting organized, and managing time is about balance. Discover the Personal Goals and Priorities approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success  more  

Establishing goals and priorities, getting organized, and managing time is about balance. Discover the Personal Goals and Priorities approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success  more  

There is no one best or right way to keep ourselves growing and developing. But, without a vision and the discipline to follow through, there can be no personal improvement.  more  

Whether you think the world is full of richness and opportunity or garbage and despair – you are right because that is your point of focus.  more  

Less effective managers aspire to lead but end up demoralizing their own teams and frustrating themselves by choosing to be disempowered by their bosses. They unwittingly fall for the cult of heroic management -- the notion that leadership comes down from on high.  more  

Six questions to help you discover whether your career is healthy -- and, if it isn't, to help put it back on track.  more  

Do not succumb to the highly contagious Victimitis Virus. If we want to change where we'll be tomorrow, we'll have to make different choices today.  more  

Hope is one of the most powerful sources of energy ever known to humankind. Highly energized cultures are charged with hopefulness and optimism. It's the dynamic power that mobilizes individuals and teams to make the improbable possible. It's the mark of a leader.  more  

Our leadership development choices raise us up or drag us down. Our development is our choice. Those accumulated choices prepare us to take advantage of unexpected opportunities or weaken our abilities and set us up to be victims of change.  more  

Thermostat leaders believe they can make a difference, they work to define and create what could be rather than just reflecting what is. Thermometer managers put the blame on their circumstances for poor results.  more  

The "power of positive pictures" is a skill, habit, and technique often called visioning, imagery, and visualization. It has a power for change, improvement, and energy creation that we're only beginning to understand.  more  

A few tips and traps on chosen pathways that help teams and people throughout the organization to clarify or clearly see pictures of their preferred future.  more  

The beginning point of all our choices is our own thoughts. This is our personal source code that we execute or translate into action. Our thoughts set our programming instructions. Taking responsibility for our choices starts with choosing our thoughts.  more  

We need to be less afraid of death and more frightened by an empty life. When we feel the most love, passion, or energy is when we are the most alive. That's when our soul sings.  more