Leadership Lesson: Winning
Winning needs to be your #1 focus as the desired outcome as a leader. In fact, you have a duty, obligation and responsibility to your team and clients to keep this as your north star. Although 2 things can also be true. The 2nd is that you also must realize that no leader can do […]
Leadership Lesson: The Best Idea
Spoiler Alert! As a leader, you do NOT have to have the best idea. Release yourself from the burden. Also, humble yourself. Instead.. Realize that as a leader, your job is to aggregate the BEST idea to serve your team & clients. Sometimes that’s yours. Sometimes it’s not. And that’s OK! You must stay HUMBLE. […]
Leadership Lesson: What Leadership Is Not
SPOILER ALERT!! Leadership is NOT about making people happy. It’s about helping them. Very basic concept, but extremely profound. Why is this challenging? Because when you lead someone, the truth is many sometimes they won’t be happy with you. But that’s ok and is your job as a leader. Need an example that universally relates? […]
Leadership Lesson: 4 Stoic Virtues: Recap
Over the last few weeks, we have learned about the 4 pillars of Stoic Philosophy. Why is this important? In leadership, you need to control your internal thoughts/mind. As your thoughts/mind control your actions. And your actions control your results. Success is an inside job, my friend. And when you use the 4 virtues of […]
Leadership Lesson: 4 Stoic Virtues: Moderation
Moderation or Temperance is the 4th stoic virtue. I intentionally left it until the end. Why? Candidly, I struggle with most with this being I am recovering alcoholic & addict. Thus, I cannot talk with an overwhelming amount of authority here. That’s the ugly truth. And while in some ways I have improved drastically, in […]
Leadership Lesson: 4 Stoic Virtues: Justice
Justice is defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as: the quality of being impartial, or fair. Justice is an incredibly valuable virtue especially since life is not fair. In fact, anyone telling you otherwise, should not be trusted. As a leader you have to strive for justice in order to support your team, clients and […]
Leadership Lesson: 4 Stoic Virtues: Wisdom
“The More I Learn The Less I Know.” – Tony Bennett This quote perfectly describes the 2nd stoic virtue of wisdom. As the sober reality is that attaining wisdom is a lifetime pursuit. Something that you can acquire more of, but will always be elusive to some degree. Although the journey of its pursuit is […]
Leadership Lesson: 4 Stoic Virtues: Courage
I listed the 4 Stoic Virtues last week below.. They are in no specific order according to the Stoics. But the best way I digest them specific to leadership is attacking COURAGE as number 1. The fact is that strong Leadership often times means going against the grain. It means taking action not that is […]
Leadership Lesson: The 4 Stoic Virtues
A philosophy called Stoicim emerged thousands of years ago in the ancient world by a man named Zeno who was a successful sea merchant and died in Athens, 236 BC. Stoicism was created as a framework on how to live a better life and to cope with its challenges being Zeno lost everything in a […]
[MM] Perspective
Happy Monday Mindset!🙌 As we kick off our New Year “10Lbs Challenge” brand-wide, I wanted to strengthen your mindset for the road ahead! As yes, there will be A LOT of success, but also A LOT of challenges! And no better way than to provide some perspective from some challenges our ancestors faced. As I […]