Everyone has the capacity for personal development but not everyone takes advantage of the opportunity. We are all a work in progress and the work is never done. There are always ways to improve and get better at how you approach your life and work.
Are You Growing…or Just Staying Busy? The Discipline Behind Intentional Personal Growth After 23 years as a Vistage Chair and a total of 30 years in professional services, seeing more than 1,000 speakers,…
Introduction – Life Lessons Learned at 60 Sixty has a way of sneaking up on you. It doesn’t arrive gradually. It shows up all at once—like a quiet tap on the shoulder, reminding…
You Have to Stand Up to a Bully You have to stand up to a bully. It doesn’t matter whether it shows up in your personal life, your business, or public leadership—you have…
Are Your Business Goals Optional—or Mandatory? The start of a new year brings optimism, energy, and ambitious business goals. Leaders and teams are focused on growth, opportunity, and what’s possible. It’s a time…
What Does Success Really Mean to You? Most people think they know what success is—until you ask them to define it. It sounds like a simple question: What does success mean to you?…
Introduction: A Season Made for Reflection There’s something about the space between one year ending and another beginning that naturally invites reflection. The pace slows just enough. The calendar gives us permission to…
This isn’t about being old-fashioned. Civility never goes out of style. It’s about how we treat each other when nobody’s keeping score. With that in mind, here are some practical reminders—simple habits and…
Every relationship—personal or professional—either lifts you or weighs you down. There’s no neutral. There’s positive energy that expands your perspective, fuels your hope, and deepens your purpose. And then there’s negative energy that…
Lead with principle, not popularity. Govern your emotions before governing others. Seek truth, even when it humbles you. And remember: this role, this power, this body—it is all rented. Use it wisely. Return…
Across from me sat George Washington...His presence filled the room, not with grandeur, but with gravitas—the kind that comes from bearing a nation’s birth in your bones
We are called to be better to one another. Not perfect. Just better. Kinder. Gentler. Quieter when we want to shout. Open when we’d rather close off. The world doesn’t just need more…
????️ Podcast Overview: In this emotionally honest and deeply reflective episode, leadership coach Ed Robinson steps away from his usual role advising high-performing executives to share something far more personal: his journey through…
For business owners and senior executives who sit in positions of influence, the stakes are high, and the mirrors are unforgiving. You might fool the world with words, but it’s your actions—especially when…
Beginnings are easy. Endings are frequently hard or awkward. We should, therefore, exercise greater care and consideration when transitioning from one circumstance to the next. It’s strange how a relationship or situation that’s…
I recently read about Charles Handy's passing in the Wall Street Journal. Given his age, it isn’t surprising, but it still fills me with sadness. I’ve been reading his books for over 25…
At its core, the Jonathan Livingston Seagull book summary is about choosing growth over comfort. Jonathan rejects the norms of his flock, embracing failure, repetition, and isolation in pursuit of mastery. His journey…
By adopting the mindset of imperfectionism and mindful leadership, leaders can make better strategic decisions, set healthier boundaries, and model sustainable work habits for their teams. The book helps leaders move away from…
Introduction Why Can’t We Be Good? by Jacob Needleman takes on one of the most uncomfortable but important questions of human life: if we know what is right, why do we so often…
Book Introduction Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen is a powerful and eye-opening book that challenges one of our most basic assumptions—that our thoughts are always true. Nguyen explains that much…
By learning to master your own mind first — improving self-awareness, observation, empathy, and habits — you can fundamentally transform how you connect, lead, and succeed. For any business owner or leader seeking…
Some days feel heavy, long, and uncertain — when the world seems to move too fast and we’re just trying to catch our breath. Life comes at us in waves: some calm, some…
Welcome to Beat the Odds – A Journey from the Stage to the Boardroom By Sandy Gennaro — Rock Star. Mentor. Speaker. Difference-Maker. What do Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett, and The Monkees have…
Life has a way of testing our judgment, grit, and character—especially when you’re responsible for a business and a team. Andy Andrews’ The Traveler’s Gift reads like a parable, but it lands like…
In a world obsessed with speed, noise, and constant motion, Holiday makes a compelling case for slowing down, quieting the mind, and finding clarity in the present moment. Through stories of figures like…
Running a business is a thinking sport. You win or lose on the quality of your judgments, not the volume of your activity. The Rules of Thinking is a concise, practical playbook for…
Whether you're at a crossroads in life or seeking to enhance your personal and professional fulfillment, the Life Design Workbook provides practical tools and exercises to help you design a life that is…
As Campbell beautifully summarizes, "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." This poetic expression encapsulates the essence of his…
Whether you're a young professional mapping out your future, a business owner seeking clarity, or a seasoned executive facing reinvention, the insights within this book can become a personal compass.
Eckhart Tolle's work in "A New Earth" is a call to individuals to look beyond the superficial measures of success and find deeper meaning through spiritual awakening and presence. By tackling the common…
Gretchen Rubin turns research on habits and happiness into tools real people can use. She writes plainly, road-tests ideas on herself first, and offers checklists you can run right away. This book is…
Solve for Happy isn’t about pretending life is easy. It’s about suffering less and savoring more—by seeing clearly, adjusting expectations, and practicing a few small habits that return you to your natural baseline.…
Life gets heavy—losses, delays, curveballs you didn’t ask for. You can’t control most of it. But as Viktor E. Frankl reminds us in Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything, you always keep…
Again and again, these essays underscore that "we are what we do," and that while there may be no escaping who we are, we have the capacity to face loss, misfortune, and regret…
Despite working hard and meeting our goals, it’s sometimes unclear why we aren’t advancing in our careers. In the absence of strong feedback, we may begin to feel underappreciated or undervalued. While leaders…
You don’t need an overhaul to change your life. You need a few small, right things—done today, then tomorrow, then again. That’s the slight edge: quiet steps compounding into a better you.
In short, this book is a powerful reminder that leadership isn’t about knowing it all. It’s about being bold enough to ask, humble enough to listen, and wise enough to act on what…
Join bestselling author Andy Andrews on an extraordinary journey through time in The Traveler’s Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success. Blending fiction, self-help, and historical insight, this inspiring story follows David Ponder,…
There is nothing more important than understanding how reality works and how to deal with it. The state of mind you bring to the process makes all the difference. I have found it…
In your high-performance journey, you'll need to be courageous too. The road to high performance is daunting. By definition, it involves moving away from the ordinary: that mindset you've been falling back on…
Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach This is a short book. You can read it in an hour. But if you read it right, it stays with you for years. It looks like…
Seven Decisions That Shape a Life—and a Legacy In your own words: A journey through adversity, personal responsibility, and the kind of leadership that transforms lives. Andy Andrews takes us on a unique…
Achieving lasting success isn’t just about working harder—it’s about working smarter and understanding what truly drives you. In Managing Oneself, legendary management thinker Peter Drucker provides a powerful guide to self-awareness, helping professionals…
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