Monthly Archives: October 2017

Change your workday …

This article has wonderful strategies to change your workday to help you be more productive. The average leader spends almost 65% of their time reading emails each day. That alone should warrant serious concern in how we work.

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Learning without growth is … Entertainment

entertainI have been struggling with this for almost my entire adult life. I have a ton of good friends who will recommend a book, send an article, talk about a new video or seminar they attended where they learned all kinds of new things about life, being parents, being spouses, being a leader and so on. I have done my own share of this as well. Like so many, I enjoy a new perspective on the same challenges. After a while though, when all this learning translates into nothing more than a few days of change and a quick revert to the old self,  it begs the questions:  What is the real purpose of learning if not to grow? Is it possible to become so enamored with the learning itself that the celebration of it that becomes a mere smoke screen for the lack of growth? With the abundance of learning channels, has learning become just intellectual and spiritual entertainment?

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