4 Effective Tips On How To Take Your Life To The Next Level
After 20 years of working counterintelligence cases, I was asked to become the spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California. My first reaction was “No”—I was very comfortable in my position as a case agent. By this time, I knew every step in the manual and had my...
This Is The Best Way You Can Overcome Stress
The thing about stress is that no amount of money can make it go away. In fact, money can actually increase your stress level. Your stress might spike over noble concerns that include climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil. Or, even more likely, your stress...
3 Ways Smart People Embrace Risk
To embrace risk means to move into a situation that involves exposure to danger. In the case of an FBI investigation, it could mean a drawn weapon. For entrepreneurs, it could mean how to challenge the competition or start a new business. For family members, it could...
5 Good Reasons Why More People Feel Lonely and Isolated At Work
The consequences of our feel-good-at-all-costs culture have finally caught up with us. It’s produced a generation (or two) of people who are depressed and feel lonely, isolated and misunderstood at work. It’s got to be hard to spring from the coddled world of...
How To Have POWERFUL Conversations That Will INFLUENCE People
The purpose of powerful conversations is to influence people and change mindsets. As an FBI agent, I needed to persuade people that it was in their best interest to cooperate with an FBI investigation. You may need a powerful conversation to change the behavior of one...
4 Things You Need To Know To Be Emotionally Intelligent
The first thing I learned as an FBI agent was that I would need to be emotionally intelligent if I planned to live long enough to spend my retirement pension. Agents who are emotionally intelligent have the ability to read the emotions of others before a gun is drawn...
Here Is How Smart People Can Stop Sabotaging Their Success
I grew up on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming, and while I learned to ride horseback at the age of 6, my brother and I had to share a horse for a few summer months while mine healed from a sprained ankle. One day that summer Dad announced that he needed to help a...
Beware The Problem Of A “Feel Good” Culture
We’re in the middle of a “make everyone feel good” culture where it’s important everyone walks away a winner. The idea that everyone gets a blue ribbon because they showed up produces a mindset that doesn’t understand how to cope with risk. Success is handed to them...
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