Teamwork makes the dream work. Nothing makes work more enjoyable than doing what you love with a group of people you like. But sometimes getting into a good rhythm can be a challenge. Whether you’re incorporating someone new to a team or building a cracker-jack lineup...
Every night I go to sleep with five things on my bedside table: a lamp, a book, a baby monitor, a phone, and a clock. While two of these items serve as an alarm clock, the baby monitor is what wakes me up every morning. Over the past year, I decided to stop setting my...
Without question, the past year has been a tough one. From our finances and careers, to our personal lives and key relationships, it’s safe to say that not a single circle of the seven key areas of our lives have gone unscathed. As we look with a hopeful eye toward...
Some parts of life grab more of our attention than others. Some “circles” like our finances, our careers, and even our health have clear indicators of success that are easily definable. The goals we set for those areas are easy to make measurable and specific....
The new year is always an opportunity to reset our diets after a holiday season of indulgent treats, but it’s especially important after a year like 2020. So many variables worked against healthy habits: Stress and uncertainty led many of us to reach for fast,...
We all have goals and dreams. Big things we want to achieve, people we want to become, and new mountains we hope to climb. But why do we choose to do what we do? More often than not, the whys behind our goals all boil down to one thing: our core values. Our values are...
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with saying, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.” I thought about this saying a great deal in the closing weeks of 2020. Every year brings new...
It’s official. We’ve closed the book on 2020. And while it may have been the strangest, most universally stressful year many of us have ever experienced, it’s also true that each of us can likely look back and recognize that it wasn’t all bad. In fact, a lot of good...
No one is a master in every area of their life. It takes a little bit of humility to accept that while you may be a strong leader in your professional world, you might need to spend some time working on making your relationships stronger in your personal life. Or,...