Improve Your Results – Overcome Resistance

Life happens. You’re running early for a meeting and decide to stop for a quick errand. You step out of the car, preoccupied with thoughts of your meeting, and shut the door – realizing seconds too late that your keys and phone are now locked inside. The quick errand has now turned into a quick panic as you realize that you are miles from home, you have no access to a phone to call for assistance and you may miss your meeting.

Yet how often do we find ourselves derailed from reaching our goals, from finding success simply because we did not have a plan to overcome the resistance that happens every day?

Action, PrinciplesBrett PinegarJune 17, 2013

Success is a Choice

I would venture to say that if you asked most people if they would like to be successful the answer would be yes. Yet if you asked those same people if they considered themselves successful the answer would be no… or not in this area or that area. Certainly success must be defined in terms of a goal – an achievement marker from which to define the level of success one has reached.

Who defines success is also dependent upon the goal – it may be a boss, a teacher, a friend or, perhaps most often, the individual themselves.

“Who defines YOUR success?”

ActionBrett PinegarJune 13, 2013

It's Not About The Nail

Although you may feel an urgent need to take action there are times when it is best to work on your listening skills. Does this comical, but relatable video strike a chord with you?

Brett PinegarJune 5, 2013

Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset

Check out Hans Rosling's TED talk, "Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset" and let it help you limber up your mindset. Each of us have views, opinions, and perspectives on just about everything. Our opinions and perspectives are driven by our mindset, something that rarely creeps out of our subconscious. As leaders, if our mindset is wrong, then our gut instincts will be wrong, we will misinterpret the data we see, and likely misjudge the people and situations we find ourselves in.

Leadership, PrinciplesBrett PinegarApril 11, 2013

What Makes a Great Strategy?

Strategy is a business management term we use all the time, yet many struggle to crisply define what it means. In my work, I help organizations create roadmaps for success. An effective mission, strategy or business model (I think they are the same thing), and action plan are a critical parts of this roadmap.

A great strategy answers the question...

StrategyBrett PinegarMarch 26, 2013

The Power of Vulnerability

This is one of my favorite TED talks of all time. Brené Brown does a fabulous job of walking the talk at TED. Being vulnerable when most of us would be incapable of doing so. Go Brené!

Principles, PurposeBrett PinegarMarch 18, 2013

Find Your Line

The title of this video is Revelation, a Visual Poem and it is a beautiful reminder that true happiness and joy come when we pursue our purpose with passion... in other words, as we find and follow our line.

Principles, PurposeBrett PinegarFebruary 28, 2013

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