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None of us were put on this Earth to be ordinary.

Okay, let’s acknowledge upfront this can quickly get deep into semantics so stay with me and put aside that debate for a while please, and at least provisionally accept that intelligence is your innate mental ability and smart is about how will you DEPLOY…

The phrase is from Matthew 21:16 (and Psalm 8:2) and refers to the often unfiltered, direct nature of children’s speech.

I lead an organization where I am responsible to many stakeholders and I take duties that come with the mantle of leadership very, very seriously.

What drives you?

Without being fully aware of the process, we have absorbed norms from the world around us; unquestioningly inheriting assumptions from family, class, education, peers, and culture as well as from the moment in history we by chance happen to occupy.

One way to analyze human problems is via Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, beginning with our most fundamental physical needs (oxygen, water, food, sleep, shelter) then on to social/belonging/achievement needs and finally to self-actualization or even self-tra…

Self-regulatory failure is a fancy phrase for procrastination: putting off what we KNOW we would be better off getting over with.

I find myself asking myself this question often these days and usually in a role specific context.

Inherent in the phrase ‘work life balance’ is the implication that they are somehow at odds, that one comes at the cost of another, that one consumes energy while the other creates and restores energy.