Individual Leadership

Understanding that leadership is more than a position or title will go a long way toward helping you recognize your true potential. If you want to be an effective leader, first be your own best leader. Once you have your own life in control, you can work on guiding others. The typical tips for leadership involve being a good communicator, a good listener, act with integrity, take responsibility, be organized, and delegate. (more…)

Emotionally we humans sometimes put up blocks and barriers in order to avoid the reality of our lives. Whether we are in a bad marriage, having troubles in interpersonal relationships, or we are feeling frustrated with our lack of advancement in our career, we lie to ourselves about it. We make up reasons why we don't get along with people and usually we blame them and take no blame on ourselves. We become victims. We fall into a survival condition rather than nurture a thriving condition. A survival condition is sometimes necessary depending on the circumstances, but eventually as we get stronger we move into a thriving condition and it is then that we can find it within ourselves to accept our own responsibility for the choices in our lives that led to where ever we are today -- for bad or good. (more…)