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5 Steps To Break Out Of Your Comfort Zone (And why you must do it now)
Comfort doesn’t hurt us. That’s the wonderful thing about it. However, it doesn’t help us much, either. When we stay in our comfort zones, we don’t allow ourselves to grow. Many people live their entire lives within the boundaries their comfort has created. You’ve...
When to Stay Inside Your Comfort Zone
Learning to stretch outside your comfort zone is critical for learning and growing, advancing in your job and career, and achieving your personal and professional goals. But is it always the case that you need to step outside your comfort zone to be successful? Are...
Why Confidence Is So Important (and How to Improve Yours)
You know what confident people look like, the advantages they get, and that it's something worth emulating. How do you get there, though?
Bill Belichick reveals his 5 rules of exceptional leadership
Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots says, "I think I know a little about coaching. I think I know a little about leadership." Here are his top five principles of leadership and coaching.
Nine Signs You’re Really an Introvert
It can be difficult to admit to yourself that you may be an introvert. When we think of people as being introverted, we often wrongly assume that they are people who don’t like people. However, as Susan Cain so effectively showed the world in her book, Quiet: The...
8 Things Power Couples Do Differently
Power couples can seem like intimidating forces, managing to have their own wildly successful careers as well as relationships. Though Beyonce and Jay Z are probably just superhuman, the secrets of how most power couples make it work aren’t reserved for the mega-rich...
4 biggest challenges facing business leaders today
When it comes to successful leadership, attributes like vision, communication, integrity, and curiosity never go out of style. Today, executives also must be able to build strong teams in the face of recruiting and retention challenges, keep up with the latest...
Play to Your Strengths. Shore Up Your Weaknesses
For some reason, it’s popular to tell people that they should focus on their strengths and ignore their weaknesses. This is terrific advice . . . in context, anyway. My strengths are in sales and marketing. I care deeply about financials, but I am not a CFO, an...
Context is Important
Every bit of advice that you read on the internet, including blogs like this one, needs to be taken in context. Much of what you read is written as universal advice, applicable to everyone, applicable in every circumstance, and as though it should be adopted as your...
Playing to your strengths
At the core of Buckingham’s philosophy is the notion that you should focus your work life on the things you’re good at, and steer yourself away from the things you’re bad at. This is a better strategy for individuals and companies than trying to correct weaknesses, he...