• Are You Asking the Right Question to Lead Your Team to Success?

    Are You Asking the Right Question to Lead Your Team to Success?

    What really matters most in life, leadership, and organizational development? As we prepare to move into the coming year, let’s take a deep dive into this question. Essentially, is it a question? Or is it a matter of focus? I believe it’s both. In order to focus on your life, leadership, and organization, you must…

  • 5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Communication Skills Fast  

    5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Communication Skills Fast  

    The No. 1 struggle I consistently find working with companies is communication. We have more ways to communicate than ever before: Zoom, text, email, Slack, Chat, and more. Yet, in most cases, we waste a lot of time and effort because of poorly disseminated or misunderstood ideas. A lot of mutual mystification goes on daily.…

  • Business Lessons from the Phillies’ Daycare

    Business Lessons from the Phillies’ Daycare

    Have you been watching the Phillies’ amazing season? They are headed to the World Series with a surprising lineup of very young players — many rookies. What could this possibly teach us about running a business? Let’s start with why so many young players. During the last few years, the Phillies have invested in a…

  • 4 Simple Actions to be a Business Catalyst (And Why it Matters)

    4 Simple Actions to be a Business Catalyst (And Why it Matters)

    What is a Catalyst According DictionaryReference.com, A catalyst is a substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected.  Also: Something that causes activity between two or more people or forces without itself being affected. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, creators of the Giving Pledge, encourage billionaires to give half of their…

  • Does Celebrating Success Every Day Matter to You, Your Team, Your Company? Yes, Yes, and Yes!

    Does Celebrating Success Every Day Matter to You, Your Team, Your Company? Yes, Yes, and Yes!

    For the past couple of weeks, I have been talking about celebrating success in your personal life and at the office. I’m guessing you have some questions like: ‘Will this really benefit me? Will this really benefit those in my company?’  Yes. Absolutely!  The act of celebrating gives you tangible, positive feedback and fulfills the human…

  • Do You Need A Good Celebration at Work?

    Do You Need A Good Celebration at Work?

    Last week we talked about celebrating your small wins and building a successful life and career one win at a time. Celebrating success in a company, large or small, is equally important. Celebrating both company and individual victories does not just create a positive “vibe.”  It also helps workers see themselves as effective and part…

  • Taking Time to Celebrate Your Success Daily to Unlock Even Greater Wins

    Taking Time to Celebrate Your Success Daily to Unlock Even Greater Wins

    These days, we are all in a race to the finish. Every corner of life is taunting us with competition to be the best, or at least not the worst. The opportunity to compare our failures with others’ success is always there beckoning. There must be a better life, right?  We dream of bigger futures,…

  • Are You the Hero of Your Thoughts?

    Are You the Hero of Your Thoughts?

    Thoughts are very powerful. Everything in your external world started as a thought in your internal world.   Your belief system is the product of ideas you have been exposed to throughout your life. Thousands of years of wisdom, experience, and observation have proven that you become what you think about all day long.  “Nurture your…

  • 9 Tips to Stop Living in the Poverty Mindset

    9 Tips to Stop Living in the Poverty Mindset

    I work so hard, and I still can’t make ends meet. I’ll never be able to afford a vacation. I’ll take what I can get for this project, even if it’s not my full rate. Do these statements, or some form of them, sound familiar? Engaging in limiting thought limits your ability to succeed.  Scientific…

  • Find Your Purpose and Get on a Successful Life Journey Today

    Find Your Purpose and Get on a Successful Life Journey Today

    What is the definition of success? Not just the textbook definition, but your individual definition of success and how it manifests in your life.  Drilling down on the definition of success is an essential step on your journey to achievement.  Success is not a spectator sport, achievement demands action.  The first action is to determine what…

  • Start Living the Abundant Life Today!

    Start Living the Abundant Life Today!

    In Suze Orman’s book, The Courage to be Rich, she offers what she calls The First Law of Money: People first, then money, then things. She proposes that we need to value money more than things because it’s money that enables us to acquire those things. And, if we value money over things, we’ll take…

  • Is It The Humidity, Or Are You Stuck In An Energy Drain?

    Is It The Humidity, Or Are You Stuck In An Energy Drain?

    Your attitude- positive or negative- affects your energy level. It makes sense, right? If you go into a situation with positive thoughts, you will have more energy to put into the task. In order to develop a positive attitude, it’s important to become aware of what drains your energy or what causes you to think…

  • 5 Thoughts for Keeping Your Motivation on Hazy, Hot, and Humid Days

    5 Thoughts for Keeping Your Motivation on Hazy, Hot, and Humid Days

    “Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”  M. Scott Peck – The “Road Less Traveled”…

  • Tuesday with Michael: 4 Simple Steps to an Ideal Life

    Tuesday with Michael: 4 Simple Steps to an Ideal Life

    Assemble an ideal week. Start by finding blocks of time for your family, High Payoff Activities (HPA’s) and for planning. Add and arrange other blocks of time to your schedule until you have identified an ideal week that allows you to enjoy personal time as well as time to spend on your most important goals. …