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- What is Insight? Insight Definition Explained
  
  Insight is inner sight, mental vision, or wisdom. Insight is the creative juice that authors, artists, linchpins, entrepreneurs, teachers, trusted advisers, and other creative geniuses flow and draw from.
- What’s Your Life Focus? Fame, Friends, Fortune, Family, Fun, Freedom, Faith?
  
  “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off It can be tough to make choices or optimize your work and life, if you don’t know what you want to optimize for. Some people learn too little, too …
- ADKAR is a Simple Model for Change
  
  “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy Change management is a challenge whether you’re changing yourself, changing others, or changing the world. It helps to have a change management framework that is easy to learn, easy to apply, and proven in practice. Change is tough enough …
- Reinforcement—How to Strengthen and Reinforce Change
  
  “What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.” — B. F. Skinner ADKAR is a helpful model for identifying the key components of change leadership and turning them into action. I’ve been a certified change leader by Prosci for more than a decade at Microsoft, but I first …
- Great Quotes on Leadership to Inspire Your Influence and Impact
  
  This is my collection of leadership quotes drawing from John Maxwell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sun Tzu, and more. It’s wisdom of the ages and modern sages, all focused on the topic of leadership. Use these quotes to add to your own repertoire of leadership knowledge.
- Feel Lighter Now–How to Feel Lighter Emotionally
  
  What if you could release negative emotions and feel lighter and ready for anything as you go about your day? A “lighter feeling” is a big deal. Recently, I read The Abundance Book: Learn to Let Go of any Negativity in Seconds, by Larry Crane. It’s interesting in that he focuses on getting and maintaining “a lighter feeling.”
- How To Be Happy: 7 Ways to Be Happier Today
  
  A while back I gave a talk at the Britelife Summit on Happiness. My talk was titled, “The Way of Happiness: 7 Principles for Happiness.” In my talk, I outlined some of the key happiness strategies and tactics I use, and share with others, to improve happiness. Happiness really is a skill.
- Make 3 Great Decisions a Day
  
  “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” — Albert Einstein This might just be the ultimate habit, or meta-habit, to change your life. One of the best ways to keep improving your work and life is through this one simple habit: Make 3 great decisions each …
- Better Decision Making with 10-10-10
  
  A friend shared a simple technique for improving decision making and helping prioritize. It’s 10-10-10, by Suzy Welch. You basically test your decisions against time frames to make better decisions. You can use it to improve decisions at work, life, business, love or anything really. By testing your decisions against different time frames, you expose your needs, fears, desires, and unconscious agendas. This can help you identify and live to your deepest goals and values.
- How To Set Boundary Conditions to Make Better Decisions
  
  “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson You can set boundary conditions to make better decisions. Putting decisions into place usually requires compromises along the way or dealing with unforeseen events. If your decision depends on everything going perfectly well, you’re in trouble. If you don’t …
- How To Test Your Decision-Making Process to Make Better Decisions
  
  You need to test your decisions against reality. A lot of decisions might sound good at the time or look good on paper. To really test your decisions, you need feedback loops that provide first-hand experience.
- How To Make Better Decisions Through Disagreement
  
  “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” — Mahatma Gandhi Do you know how to make better decisions? To make better decisions, develop disagreement rather than consensus. Disagreement provides alternatives and makes you think more deeply about the issue. In fact, if you don’t have disagreement, you’re not ready to make a decision. …
- Great Motivational Quotes to Fire You Up Right Now
  
  “What lies behind us and what lies in front of us pales in comparison to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivation is a skill, and you can practice it. The right words and phrases can help you build a better mindset, skillset, and actionset to motivate yourself and others. This is a comprehensive roundup …
- Great Quotes on Happiness to Brighten Your Day Today
  
  This is my collection of happiness quotes. Here what Charlie Brown, Dale Carnegie, Aristotle, Confucius, and more have to say about the art and skill of happiness.
- Great Quotes by Bruce Lee to Inspire You Today
  
  Bruce Lee quotes inspire us to be our best. This Bruce Lee Quote’s collection is organized by art, goals, growth, life, mistakes, positive thinking, personal development, power, self-awareness, simplicity, time, and truth.
- How To Self-Question Your Beliefs to Build Your Credibility
  
  “When your mind is full of assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs, it has no penetration, it just repeats past impressions.” — Sadhguru There is a simple way to practice critical thinking and improve your credibility. You can ask evidence questions. You can use the approach to question any information and to challenge your own beliefs, assumptions, …
- How To Practice Precision Q+A to Ask and Answer Questions Better
  
  “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” — Thomas Berger One of the best leadership tools I ever learned is the Precision Q+A framework. You might hear it referred to as Precision Questions and Answers, or Precision Questioning and Precision Answering, etc. Ultimately, Precision Q+A is a thinking framework …
- Jeff Bezos Says You Can Have a Job, a Career, or a Calling (and Your Calling is the Jackpot)
  
  “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” — Jeff Bezos When it comes to career advice, Jeff Bezos says you can choose between a job, a career, and a calling. if you figure out your calling, according to Bezos, …
- Leadership Checklist–The Ultimate Leader’s Checklist
  
  This is a leadership assessment you can use to assess yourself against effective leadership practices. This leadership checklist organizes leadership qualities, leadership habits, and leadership practices into the following categories: action, change, communication, decisions, influence, motivation, problem solving, self-awareness, teamwork, and vision.
- The 5 Practices and 10 Commitments of Exemplary Leadership
  
  “If you think you are the leader but still no one is following you, then it’s just a walk.” –- John Maxwell What do better leaders do consistently, that other leaders don’t? In The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner write about the 5 practices and 10 commitments for effective leadership. Their work …