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...
The Most Important Thing No One Ever Taught You
How well do you know yourself? We plan for retirement and vacations, but we seldom plan for how we’ll become a better person, the person we want to be, not the one shaped by our circumstances. Most of us assume that we’ll get the gist of this whole...
How You Can Be More Resilient When Things Get Hard
The things that come closest to killing us are the things that make us grow. Damn, why do life’s best lessons need to come wrapped up in adversity? Our obstacles will not define us; we will be defined by how we overcame them. We’ve all experienced adversity in some...
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