Do you know where the most powerful source of confidence comes from? Do you think it comes from accomplishing things? Believing in yourself? Taking action? Yes, those things are definitely very helpful.  But they really don’t completely do it.   You’d think confidence comes from believing in yourself or your…

I’ve had many bosses and managers tell me over the years that I should focus on making my weaknesses better. My weaknesses are the area that I should “constantly try to improve. “ If I get better there, things will get better overall. The concept here is that if you…

I was in a situation several weeks ago where I disagreed with a peer of mine about something, but I was not prepared to discuss it at that point (I had not finished looking into it).   Yet my peer decided he was ready to discuss it immediately and continued to…

I just had lunch last week with a co-worker whose job was “deleted” last week (that is what he called it). I was unaware that this happened (they don’t put out group emails about these type of things in my office!) but was once again keenly reminded how our careers…

I heard a story this week that reminded me of something that I needed to work on – being prompt. As the story goes, a man was perpetually late to everything he did and everywhere he went.   Meetings, events for work, commitments to his wife, Church functions, kids baseball games,…

Several times this week I was in a meeting and other people started criticizing what another department wasn’t doing correctly, how they were doing something that wasn’t effective, how badly the direction a project was going, etc. So I decided to join in. And my human flesh became evident. I…

I went this week to my first monthly meeting in downtown Nashville at the regional Entrepreneur Center. It was a coffee / Meet up in which local entrepreneurs get together once a month, hang out for a bit, then hear a Q&A with a local successful entrepreneur. It is designed…

I have been working on a project lately that involves a lot of detail.  There are pricing elements that must be exactly right, spreadsheets, signage, lots and lots of details that if errors occur it would cause our company to lose a lot of money. My tendency (and personality!) is…

We just arrived home late last night after attending a funeral for my wife’s grandmother this week in West Virginia (the mountains are so beautiful there!).  Her grandmother was 88! – She lived a very long life.  While we were there we got a chance to hang out with many…

I recently read an article from Jeff Weiner / CEO at LinkedIn that talked about the importance of scheduling nothing and it really got me to thinking again about everything currently going on at my job. How do your days look when you are at work? Is it non-stop meetings,…