Techniques to Build Courage, part 1

In the next few blogs, I’d like to take you through a series of questions that will help you reflect on your life, your career, your relations. The answers will help you see how you may react to failure, how prepared you are to engage in failure as a way to succeed. Take time to […]

The Wisdom of Learning from Failure

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” ~ Babe Ruth “We are programmed at an early age to think that failure is bad,” wrote Amy Edmondson in a 2011 article in the Harvard Business Review. “That belief prevents organizations from effectively learning from their missteps.” But how do organizations create an […]

Fearing to Fail, or Afraid of Failing

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey didn’t even want to start a company. He just “had an idea and decided to pursue it,” he said. His suggestion to everyone and anyone: don’t just leave an idea festering in your head. Get it out and start working on it. He didn’t think in terms of failure, […]

Have The Courage to Fail…In Order to Succeed

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks Does fear control you or do you control fear? Do you have the courage to fail in order to succeed? Fearless Leaders don’t like to fail; some […]

A Capability Quiz

Let’s take a quick quiz to help you gauge your capability. It’s a quick pen-and-paper exercise, and you’ll really get a lot out of it. What are you capable of? Answer Y=Yes or N=No to the following: I prefer taking action rather than waiting for direction. I often prefer to express myself even if my […]

Sharpening Your Focus

Regardless of how you measure the “priority of life” or face and overcome your “fears,” or choose to recognize beauty or greatness in others, your ability to be a Fearless Leader, to sharpen your focus and reclaim your confidence in any situation is the key to finding success in your own life right now. In […]

Mastering Fearless Leader Secrets

What happens when you are master of several of the Fearless Leaders success secrets? The courage to fail…in order to succeed + excel with unrelenting fire. The fuel of passion enhances the courage to fail in order to succeed in two ways. One, having greater passion dramatically expands your comfort zone so that when you’re […]

Finding Your Passion

Finding your passion, finding your unrelenting fire, your passion in your purpose, means that you’ll need to search yourself in-depth, first for what you’re passionate about and then what skills and competencies you possess that will serve this passion. Then you’ll need to match these against opportunities in the marketplace, refining your search by the […]