https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 7, Issue 6 “Spring Ahead Using Your STRENGTHS” March 2013 Here in the US, we started Daylight Savings Time this month where we turn the clocks ahead one hour in order to make the days “longer”. To remember which way to move our clocks forward or backward there is a saying “Fall back, Spring ahead.” “Spring […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 7, Issue 5 “Using Axiology to Motivate Others Better” February 2013 The Carrot Principle was a popular book when it came out in 2007. It was a NY Times bestseller. It received rave reviews in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The New York Times, helped lots of managers with their teams. The book revealed […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 7, Issue 4 “Resolve to Go All-In in 2013” January 2013 Happy New Year! This month’s newsletter is inspired by Chapter 10 of Kevin Hall’s 2009 book entitled “Aspire!“. If you haven’t read this book, you’ll want to put it on your 2013 reading list. The subtitle is “Discover Your Purpose through the Power of […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 7, Issue 3 “The Power of Humor” December 2012 In the previous newsletter, we discussed how to overcome holiday stress and stress in general. I left out one VERY important component which is also a VERY important component to leadership. This key component of leadership is often unmeasured and unstated. There isn’t a category […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 7, Issue 2 “Overcoming Holiday Stress” November 2012 We are fast approaching what is supposed to be a joyous time of the year. The winter holidays filled with laughter, good times, good friends, family and good cheer. Can you just feel the joy and hear the holiday music? As I’ve been talking to folks […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 7, Issue 1 “The Charged Life” October 2012 In Brandon Burchard’s book, The Charge, (get a free copy while supplies last) he discusses living a charged life versus the other types of lives we can live. Brandon has been studying human performance for 15 years. He says, “… people can make [dramatic transformations] in […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 6, Issue 11 “The Gift of Failure” August 2012 Every human being on the planet fails. Every day we fail. Sometimes these failures are minor oversights yet every once in a while we fail in a big way. We fail to such an extent that it changes our lives, our careers, our businesses, and our […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 6, Issue 10 “Long Time Perspectives” July 2012 Sociologist Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University wrote a book titled The Unheavenly City. In this book he described one of the most profound studies on success and priority setting ever conducted. Dr. Banfield’s goal was to find out why and how some people became financially successful […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 6, Issue 10 “Are You a Thermometer or Thermostat” June 2012 In life, change is either created by you or happens to you. Yet, your response to change is ALWAYS your choice. So the majority of the time, do you affect change or does change affect you? Are you typically a thermostat or a thermometer? […]
https://breakfreeconsulting.com 832-886-6452 Vol 6, Issue 9 “Through Success Onto Significance” May 2012 Last month I read a book called “The Leadership Challenge” by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner which contained this sentence that caught my attention: “Learning to be a better leader requires great self-awareness, and it requires making ourselves vulnerable.” Wow. That sentence had two […]