Personal Growth

Perhaps You’ve Outgrown Yourself

Here’s a new thought I’ve been sitting with: Sometimes people don’t just outgrow a job, a role, or a market. They outgrow themselves. And when that happens, it’s disorienting. They may feel unequipped—or worse, start believing they lack intelligence or drive. They don’t know what’s missing or what needs to change. They just know that…

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Personal Growth: The Missing Piece in Business Success

Personal Growth: The Missing Piece in Business Success

While it’s easy to assume that your focus needs to be on strategy and numbers if you want to achieve business success, the true transformation starts within yourself. The biggest catalyst to improving your career or business starts with personal growth. The work that you do on a personal level sets an undeniable foundation that…

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How to Thrive When Things Get Hard

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Sisyphus is a character in Greek Mythology who teaches a powerful lesson about overcoming challenges and maintaining consistency. As the story goes, the Greek gods were upset with Sisyphus, so his punishment was to push a big boulder up a hill. Each day he would reach the top of the hill, only to have the…

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Returning to Wonder

Kids say “wow” a lot. They are surprised by life, over and over. Spend a day with a child and pay attention to how often they are amazed at the little things they hear, see, and experience. Kids are learning and growing every day, and often having new encounters. The childhood wonder is innocent and…

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The Key to Growth: Put Something at Risk

Always playing it “safe” might feel like the comfortable thing to do. But if you aren’t putting something at risk, then you aren’t going to grow. Life is a roller coaster with inevitable ups and downs, and you must be willing to embrace the ride and take risks along the way. When you are putting…

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The Secret to Finding Happiness in the Everyday Grind

In Greek Mythology, Sisyphus was punished. The gods were angry with him, forcing him to push a huge boulder up a hill. He would complete the task, only to have the boulder roll back down at the end of the day. Over and over again… repeating this for eternity. Sisyphus spent his days in painful,…

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Survival vs. Contribution: How Are You Living?

Once these needs are met, then a person can turn their focus to their inner self, including esteem and self-actualization. How Survival Is Different in Our Modern World Hundreds of years ago, survival meant hunting, farming, and building shelter for the family. Even though physiological and safety elements are still necessary, we have a different…

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Take a Stand for Things That Matter

How do you choose priorities to build your career and move the needle forward? There are endless opportunities and distractions, making it challenging to know the best ways to use your time and focus your efforts. Taking a stand helps you refine your action steps and can mitigate risk at the same time. When you…

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Have You Broken Any Promises Today?

From the moment the alarm clock goes off in the morning, it could mean that you are breaking a promise before you even get out of bed. “What promise?!” You might be asking. How can you break a promise before the day has started? Promises can be both big and small. Setting an alarm means…

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The Difference Between Perception and Reality

While it might seem easy to assume that your perception is reality, the truth is that it takes practice to discern the differences between perception and reality. Just because a person perceives something in a certain way doesn’t mean there are concrete facts to back up that perception. Reality = Fact-Based Approach I am a…

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