Your Leadership Garden

A garden’s goal is to produce. People don’t cultivate gardens and not expect a harvest.  That’s foolish.  It’s too much work.  I remember the back breaking summer nights I spent picking weeds.  Your life is just like a garden.  You are meant to produce.  A friend of mine, Mike Murdock, asked me once, “What is […]

Episode 005 – Leading and Selling With Purpose – Podcast

• People that sell with a noble purpose – truly wanting to make a difference to customers – consistently outsold the people that were only focused on goals and money. • Top performers are driven by purpose not money. • Mindset drives behavior. • The way you think about something determines your approach and directs […]

How To Manage Your Energy

This weekend I re-read The Power of Full Engagement.  Go buy it!  Here are a couple of quick ideas that I gleaned from the book: Managing time is no guarantee we will bring sufficient energy to what we’re doing. Time is simply the opportunity to spend energy! The key question is: How much energy do we invest […]

How to Stay Motivated

I just finished Daniel Pink’s new book, Drive.  It’s the book I wish I would have written.  In addition to Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose (if you don’t understand what I’m talking about, go get the book!) I’d like to weigh in with my 3 techniques I’ve used to motivate myself!  Change Your Focus How I focus […]