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Don’t Let Life Just Happen to You
Don’t Let Life Just Happen to You A Different Setting, A Different Perspective I’ve come to believe that most people don’t stop growing because they get older. They stop growing…
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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.
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Success Still Requires Focused Effort
Success Still Requires Focused Effort “Success usually isn’t determined by who has access to the best tools. It’s determined by who uses those tools with the greatest discipline.” We are…
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Keepers of the Flame – The Unexpected Gift of Saying Yes
Keepers of the Flame – The Unexpected Gift of Becoming a Vistage Chair As I write this, I’m…
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What France Taught and Reminded Me About Family, Leadership, and Success
Opening Reflection – Balancing Achievement and Fulfillment As I write this, I am somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean…
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Personal Responsibility at Work: Why Reliability Still Matters More Than Ever
Personal Responsibility at Work Why Reliability Still Matters More Than Ever One of the most overlooked professional traits…
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A Midlife Learning, Wisdom, and Personal Reinvention Platform MEA Wisdom, also known as the Modern Elder Academy (MEA),…
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Mindset
If you believe your intelligence or talent is fixed, you spend your energy protecting it. You avoid risk.…
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Mental Toughness For Women Leaders: 52 Tips To Recognize and Utilize Your Greatest Strengths
Mental Toughness for Women Leaders – LaRae Quy This is a book about pressure. Real pressure. The kind…
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When Fatigue Catches Up: A Hard Truth About Leadership and Life
When Fatigue Catches Up: A Hard Truth About Leadership and Life Fatigue doesn’t show up all at once.…
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Are You Growing… or Just Staying Busy? The Discipline Behind Intentional Personal Growth
Are You Growing…or Just Staying Busy? The Discipline Behind Intentional Personal Growth After 23 years as a Vistage…
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Sixty Comes Faster Than You Think: 31 Lessons for a Life That Matters
Introduction – Life Lessons Learned at 60 Sixty has a way of sneaking up on you. It doesn’t…
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
At its core, the Jonathan Livingston Seagull book summary is about choosing growth over comfort. Jonathan rejects the…
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach This is a short book. You can read it in an hour.…
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Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink
Extreme Ownership – Leading By Example If you lead a company, a team, or a family, this 14-minute…
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Standing Up to Bullies: Leadership, Courage, and the Cost of Silence
You Have to Stand Up to a Bully You have to stand up to a bully. It doesn’t…
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Meditations for Mortals
By adopting the mindset of imperfectionism and mindful leadership, leaders can make better strategic decisions, set healthier boundaries,…
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Are Your Business Goals Optional—or Mandatory?
Are Your Business Goals Optional—or Mandatory? The start of a new year brings optimism, energy, and ambitious business…
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What Does Success Really Mean to You?
What Does Success Really Mean to You? Most people think they know what success is—until you ask them…
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18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
At a time when so much content is designed to provoke, persuade, or optimize, this essay offers a…
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Charting a Course for a Meaningful Life and Success
Introduction: A Season Made for Reflection There’s something about the space between one year ending and another beginning…
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Why Bother Listening to Opinions You Disagree With?
When leaders stop listening, they don’t just lose insight; they lose trust. When teams stop listening, they stop…
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Why Can’t We Be Good?
Introduction Why Can’t We Be Good? by Jacob Needleman takes on one of the most uncomfortable but important…
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think
Book Introduction Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen is a powerful and eye-opening book that challenges…
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Sopheva Roundtable Discussion on How Leaders Can Manage Stress and Pressure
Leadership stress is not a personal weakness or a lack of toughness. It is a predictable outcome of…
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The Leaders Playbook for Managing Stress
The Leader’s Playbook for Managing Stress Leadership stress is rarely caused by long hours alone. Most leaders can…
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My Favorite 155 Book Recommendations As Of December 2025
Why These Leadership Book Recommendations Exist Today’s leaders face an abundance of information, ideas, and “must-read” lists. But…
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Read Your Mind
By learning to master your own mind first — improving self-awareness, observation, empathy, and habits — you can…
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Theme: Holistic Health in Leadership
Holistic health in leadership recognizes that your physical, mental, and emotional well-being are not “personal extras” — they…
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Theme: Self-Awareness
Self-awareness puts you in the driver’s seat of your leadership. It allows you to respond instead of react,…
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A Weekend At A Friendship Retreat – Short Story
Short Story – A Weekend At A Friendship Retreat Some weekends come and go. This one is meant to…
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Good Days: An A-Z of Hope and Happiness
Some days feel heavy, long, and uncertain — when the world seems to move too fast and we’re…
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Civility Isn’t Dead—But It Needs a Revival
This isn’t about being old-fashioned. Civility never goes out of style. It’s about how we treat each other…
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