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Leaders Create Breakthroughs: The Three Mandates of Leadership

Leadership is about progress: it’s the ability to make things happen, maximize resources and inspire. It’s the capacity to create an environment in which people thrive and results are achieved. It’s the extraordinary quality that solves problems and gets things done. Ultimately, leadership is a choice. It’s a standard, a way of living and a [...]

Reasons to be Unreasonable: The 10 Fundamental Powers of Extraordinary Leaders

Leadership is about progress: It’s the ability to make things happen, maximize resources and inspire. It’s the capacity to create an environment in which people thrive and results are achieved. It’s the extraordinary quality that solves problems and gets things done. Ultimately, leadership is the ability to significantly influence the thoughts, feelings, emotions and behaviors [...]

The Pyramid of Mastery: Seven Areas of Focus for an Extraordinary Life

As achievers we know that whatever we focus on, we will find a way to achieve. The challenge so many of us face, however, is in finding balance. Even the greatest achievers acknowledge a gap between where they are and where they really want to be. Perhaps our businesses or careers are strong, but our [...]

Stressors & Solutions: Your Escape Plan from Anxiety

In our professional lives, most of us have some kind of time management system—schedules, lists, an inner clock of daily routines—but how many of us have stress management systems? That is, systems for anticipating and eliminating the triggers of our anxieties? Remember, it’s in our basic nature to be happy. The thing that makes us [...]

Making the Impossible Possible: The Five Elements of a Breakthrough

There are two types of people: 1. Those who get results and 2. those with stories about why they didn’t achieve what they wanted. Although we can’t control the events that happen in our lives, we can control how we respond to them. It’s these choices that we make—especially during challenging times when many things [...]

Building Your Control Model: Where Do You Spend Your Time?

Focusing on variables beyond your control can be a drain on your time, your thoughts, your emotions and your clarity. Fulfilled, happy people are aware of what’s beyond their control, and they don’t allow it to create stress. When an outside event affects their lives, they quickly discern, “Is this something I can control? Is [...]

Decisions and Destiny: Three Decisions that can Change Your Life

What makes the difference in the quality of people’s lives? What is the single factor that shapes and controls our ultimate destiny? Most people think that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future. And you know what? It can—but only if you live there. Any study of history shows that the difference in [...]

How to Lead an Extraordinary Life: The Three Pillars of Progress

We’ve all witnessed someone who seems to have mastered the ability to grab life by the horns and realize their most cherished desires. You may even experience a similar joy—at least occasionally, if not consistently. However, getting what you want is one thing; being conscious of how you’re doing it is another. So the question [...]

How to Turn More into Less: The Power of “Chunking”

A major source of stress in our lives comes from the feeling that we have an impossible number of things to do. We’ll often take an objective and pull it apart into a million pieces or tie it all together into one abstract whole. For example, if you take on a project and try to [...]

The Time of Your Life: More Time for What Really Matters to You

When it comes to managing time, most people focus on one question: What do I need to do? Focusing only on what it is you need to do, however, does not guarantee that you are making any real progress. To-do lists can keep you busy, and checking off a series of tasks can provide the [...]