Values: Personal Values

If, for whatever reason, you do not have enough Will then it is impossible to have other elite character traits like Courage. Courage is more than taking…

Ready, willing and able… Isn't that a wonderful combination? How sad it is when two of them are there and the third fails to arrive. In particular, how sad…

William MacDonald described Benjamin Franklin as a man who could control the common littleness of human nature 1 . It is clear MacDonald had tremendous…

Link to Part 1 Link to Part 2 Some say the key to accountability is 'delegating responsibility': when people feel responsible for something they hold…

I rarely write about morals. However, driven with hero worship, I want to share the 'self-direction' Benjamin Franklin provided to himself when he was in his…

It doesn't matter where you came from, what's happened to you or what you've done so far. While those things may carry some interest and perhaps even some…

Curiosity opens the door to alternative realities: this is discovered when you are curious, when you ask questions and when you listen to other people's…

You have your world. It surrounds you. It consumes you. You have needs and wants. Your ego makes its demands. You work away at satisfying those needs and…

We became allergic to the word "No" when we were young and now all of us don't like to hear that word when others say it to us. And, our aversion to the word…

When I was a child, we had 6 service stations within a short distance of our house: Gulf, Esso, Sunoco, Texaco, Supertest, and Shell. I lived right across…

There's value in silence and stillness. I suppose I never really grasped that until I read the words of North American Indians , gained an understanding of…

Some people believe I get too bogged down or is it tied up in words. Writing too much. Going into too much detail. Being too nitpicky about definitions. No…

Good things don't always happen quickly and sometimes good things take mysterious routes before they arrive.

As courage increases, lies decrease. As courage decreases, lies increase and become thicker and more tangled. The least courageous people have difficulty…

1. Over all other traits of leadership character, Courage reigns supreme. [ Link to over 130 thoughts about Courage ] 2. In the absence of Courage, bad…

There's a sweet spot where your thoughts & actions, your talents & strengths, and your values & virtues align and overlap. This sweet spot is the place where…

Trust without work accomplishes nothing. Work without trust accomplishes, at most, fleeting success.

Inspired by one of Stephen R Covey's phrases, ". ..balance between courage and consideration " Courage and consideration of others are two character traits…

Confidence-founded businesses enjoy many advantages, to name a handful: can do attitude, which leads to decisive action optimism, which breeds…

Values and talents make a powerful mix when combined with goals and persistence. To put this in perspective: there's an important linkage between personal…

To maximize your positive use of Stress Energy Believe

Why do you deliver criticism? How do you deliver criticism? What criticism do you deliver? I'm borrowing Simon Sinek's ‘Golden Circle' thinking here…

To explore this topic, I did some on-line research and found an interesting article that has fed into my thinking process. Below are some excerpts from that…

The King gets to make a mess, others get to clean it up...and some, the privileged ones, get to analyze it. How does that make you feel? Now, I recognize…

An Equation for Trouble By Rick Baker On Sep 6, 2013 ...additional thoughts inserted Control is the root of most disagreements. Self-control is a battlefield…

You have intelligence. You have self-control. You have 2 of the 3 essential ingredients required to handle even the toughest situations. And, the toughest…

We want stuff. Stuff costs money. So, overall, money serves a positive function in our lives. Also overall, because of this positive function the vast…

Five years ago, I wrote a Thought Post with that title, Do Family Businesses Have Better Values? During the last 5 years I have been involved in many…

During a conversation last Friday, we were discussing personal values and my friend said something like, “ Well, they bring their values with them ”. This…

It seems to me, trust is a fragile thing. Two people share trust then one of them perceives an injustice and trust quickly comes into question. Whether the…