Posts Tagged ‘beliefs’
Wiring – Keeping It In Perspective
(This post was first published here on January 23, 2017.) The DISC behavioral assessment tool was instrumental in my earliest efforts to understand myself and intentionally grow as a leader. That was around 25 years ago, and I can still remember how helpful and powerful the learning from DISC was for me. It awakened my…
Read MoreVulnerability and Courage
(A version of this post was originally published here on January 29, 2018.) I’m no psychiatrist but I’ve always been intrigued by the things people do and why they do them. Out of this curiosity, and over many years of observations, I’ve come to my own theories, and even beliefs, about people’s make-up. It is…
Read MoreSink or Swim
(A version of this post was originally published here on January 8, 2017) I was a kid when The NeverEnding Story came out. There is a scene in the movie where the hero, Atreyu, and his horse are making their way through the Swamp of Sorrows. The swamp can only be passed through safely if you…
Read MoreThe Power of Belief
You may find this hard to believe, but there is one thing that is so powerful that it can destroy everything good you have learned from LEAD 24/7. And this powerful thing with such destructive capability isn’t hiding in the cubical next to you. It isn’t in your smart phone. And it isn’t in your…
Read MoreThe Sweet Spot
Happy Thanksgiving fellow leaders! This week’s post is going to take a new angle on the sweet-spot exercise. During our year of LEAD, we looked at the diagram below several times asking the same extremely important question: How close are you right now to being in your sweet spot—that great place where you are living…
Read MoreVulnerability and Courage
I’m no psychiatrist but I’ve always been intrigued by the things people do and why they do them. Out of this curiosity, and over many years of observations, I’ve come to my own theories, or even beliefs, about people’s make-up. It is from these observations and desire to understand people that the DoKnowBe Tree came…
Read MoreWiring – Keeping It In Perspective
The DISC behavioral assessment tool was instrumental in my earliest efforts to understand myself and intentionally grow as a leader. That was around 25 years ago, and I can still remember how helpful and powerful the learning from DISC was for me. It awakened my understanding of how I am, how others are, and how…
Read MoreSink or Swim
I was a kid when The NeverEnding Story came out. Have you seen it? I remember renting it over and over back when Meijer had movie rentals. There is a scene in the movie where the hero, Atreyu, and his horse are making their way through the Swamp of Sorrows. The swamp can only be passed through…
Read MoreWhy Can’t We Be Friends
You may be aware that there was an election last week, a rather contentious one. Don’t worry, I’m not going to talk about politics today. But I am going to talk about beliefs. The division we’ve all seen in our nation around who and what our country needs is a perfect opportunity to explore how…
Read MoreI Believe I Can Fly
How malleable are our beliefs? Two weeks ago Jeff posted on emotional maturity. In that post, he mentioned psychologist Albert Ellis’s ABCs of emotions: There is an Activating event, which we filter through our Belief system to produce an emotional Consequence. Right away I knew I wanted to write a follow-up post to Jeff’s article on how to shape our…
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