“Once you take fear out of the equation, the what ifs and maybes disappear and you go forth boldly from a place of love and courage” – Wendy Carrillo
Personal Development: Podcasts
In an earlier post, I revealed my unfortunate time spent being complacent and how, looking back, I wish I wouldn’t have wasted all that time. Regardless of the past and it’s undefeated record on not being changed, I was able to make some adjustments in my life...
April Book Reviews
April has proved to be my slowest month for reading this year so far. Only making it through 2 books was somewhat disappointing. Although, it gives me 12 in the first 4 months, so at that pace, I’m looking at 36 books for the year, still surpassing my goal of...
Let Fear Fuel You Forward
I can still remember that day in 3rd grade years ago when we were given the assignment to fill out a survey in regards to career interests. There were many categories and options and of course, this was exploratory, not graded so there was no fear of right or...
Dispelling the Myth of WHO You Know
I’m sure we’ve all heard the saying “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. Typically, we will hear this in relation to getting a job or promotion, or something else that would put us ahead simply for the fact that there is a relationship advantage. How many...
8 Principles to Create More Self-Awareness
Today is part 2 of our series on self-awareness. If you need to catch up on the first part, here’s the link to that – 5 Dangers a Lack of Self-Awareness Brings. After discussing the dangers we encounter without self-awareness, today I’d like to explore ways we can...
The 5 Dangers a Lack of Self-Awareness Brings
This is the first of a two-part series that I’d like to do on self-awareness. In breaking it up like this, we’ll first talk about what it looks like when we lack this trait and then we’ll explore how to cultivate it. This is an area I believe is vital to us becoming...
March Book Reviews
Well, the month of March saw another 3 books getting knocked out. Yet again, I have to admit that if it wasn’t for listening to books through my app, I don’t know if I’d get through more than 1 each month. (Shout out to Audible.com again!) I still don’t have one...
Why You Really Don’t Want to be a Leader
Moving up in the chain of command sounds like a great idea. I mean, who doesn’t want the corner office with a window view and an assistant to handle your calendar and coffee? Isn’t higher achievements the reason why education is pushed on us? We...
7 Ways to Lead with Contact Charisma
I recently finished reading a book called The Centurion Principles by Col. Jeff O’Leary. In the book, he expounds on sound principles we can draw from the lives of many in history who have given us the example of a great leader. One leader, he points out that...
5 Ways to Protect Our Kids from I. A.
This post will be a little different from my normal writing, but I wanted to share something that I’ve recently run across and am fascinated by it and its impact. I found this in a blog post recently in regards to website development and all other articles that...