Even if we feel gratitude in our hearts, we often fail to express it effectively...
Don’t assume we all make decisions in the same way, because we don’t. If you make this mistake, you will often find yourself frustrated that other people cannot come to agreement with you. You could make the perfect argument for your position and why a...
If you are like me, you sometimes get discouraged and are tempted to give up. Often the difference between failure and success is someone who comes along side of you and speaks a powerful word of encouragement. Those words delivered in the right way have...
Most people hate conflict and will do anything and everything to avoid it. But if you are like me, conflict finds you anyway. It happened to me yesterday and everything I knew about relational intelligence and conflict went out the window – until I remembered...
You know the person I am referring. They can be quite direct and in your face about what they want to see happen. They have a goal in mind, and nothing is going to stop them. They are a force to be reckoned with as...
Fear. We all have it – to some degree. It is part of being human. We have needs that when threatened, cause us to have an emotional response that is hard to control. The power of fear can linger in the background in the form...
Vision is critical. It is the invisible motivation that brings people together to accomplish something special. Vision is able to bond people together that are different from each other. It unifies and creates movement. When vision is strong there is clear focus. Energy is released...
We all have a tendency to be defensive. If we can overcome defensiveness, we would have better relationships and make better decisions. But overcoming a defensive posture is challenging. Defensiveness kicks in when we are committed to a point of view regardless of what data is...
Recently I saw a post written by someone who was completely fed up with the way people were reading their post. His statement insisted that “he was not responsible for the way other people interpreted what they said.” Clearly, he was frustrated by being misunderstood...
At the very foundation of racism is the diminished value of a human life created in the image of God. You may have heard the phrase repeated recently at protests, “Look at me…I am human.” When we treat one another in such a way that...
