You can be successful externally and still deeply dissatisfied. To be satisfied in your work, you must posses three components.
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Why Leaders Can’t Ignore Vision
You can be successful externally and still deeply dissatisfied. To be satisfied in your work, you must posses three components.
The 3 Components of Job Satisfaction
How to Experience True Fulfillment in Your Work
You can be successful externally and still deeply dissatisfied. To be satisfied in your work, you must posses three components.
Making Vision Stick
4 Elements of a Crystal-Clear Vision that Compels Action
To lead others, you need a compelling vision. But lofty words are not enough. A vision statement must draw a crystal-clear picture of the future that guides action. In 2000, I took over Nelson Books, a major division of Thomas Nelson. I quickly discovered that it was the least profitable of the fourteen units in […]
7 Ways Successful Creatives Think Differently than Unsuccessful Ones
It Takes More Than Talent
I have worked with authors for more than three decades. Based on my observations, here are 7 characteristics that separate the highly successful ones from the others.
The Difference Between Trying and Doing
How to Turn Attempts into Accomplishments
Trying and doing are two different things. Learning about this distinction is the key to success. Here’s how you can do it for yourself.
5 Steps to Developing More Discipline
How to Remove the Obstacles to Your Success
Everyone knows you can’t succeed without discipline, yet few possess it. Here are 5 steps to developing more of it.
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
3 Steps to Follow When You're Tired of Feeling Uncertain
Whenever I feel overwhelmed or uncertain about the future, I follow the advice I was given by an older, wiser colleague. It is surprisingly simple but enormously effective.
3 Forces That Shape Character
How Media, Habits, and People Hold us Back or Drive us Forward
Charisma may be useful in attracting a following, but it is largely useless when it comes to achieving a long-term, positive impact on the people and organizations we lead. For this, we need character. In helping people build their platforms, I frequently meet people whose public image is better developed than their personal character. They […]
How to Master the Essential Discipline of Stillness
Being still is tremendously difficult in our world. Noise crowds into every empty space, leaving us spiritually, mentally, and emotionally exhausted. Here’s how to reclaim some interior margin.
5 Reasons Why You Should Commit Your Goals to Writing
Writing your goals down is one of the most important actions you can take to obtain the life you want. Sadly, most people don’t do it. Here are five why reasons you should.
Encore Episode: 5 Leadership Lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King’s efforts initiated changes that would transform American society. That’s why the nation celebrates Martin Luther King Day on the third Monday of every January. It’s a chance to reflect on what he meant for the nation—and what made his leadership so successful. In this episode, we’re going to explore the leadership legacy of […]