Leadership is a Responsibility
“You’ve observed how poor leaders throw their weight around, how quickly a little power goes to their heads. It’s not going to be that way with you. Whoever wants to be great must become a servant. Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave. That is what...
One Key to Enhancing Your Performance in Anything You Do
What has worked for you in the past, and currently works for you today, may not be able to take you to the next level of your success or performance. Recently, I was working with a group of highly successful people who wanted to improve their performance but were...
I am: How to Build or Destroy your Life
The Spirit of "I am" On my job, I have the privilege of seeing people when they are not feeling their best. There are two kinds of people I see every day. People who embrace their mountains of challenges and become broken and transformed for the better as they walk...
How to Coach Someone
Watch this video by Dan Rockwell where he shares the 7 steps to coaching that he uses with his clients. Use these skills when working with your team members, staff, or older children in your program.
Pacing Yourself During Speed Reading
In an article I wrote for KevinMD.com, I mentioned how speed reading helped me improve my performance during residency. I have gotten several questions from people who are interested in knowing how I went about speed reading. Below, I share pacing techniques I use to...
How to Create Passion
A lot of people view interests and passion as something that is only to be discovered. There are a lot of books on how to identify your interests and passion. Very little is said about how to create passion. Yet, there are many people out there who say they don't have...
Teaching your children respect
What does it mean to show respect? Who is worthy of respect? And how does a child learn to show it? As parents, we want our children to learn our values. Sometimes we struggle to figure out how, exactly, to do that. We might try to explain what we believe in, or...
7 Steps to create lasting positive change in your life
Every new year we set new goals to create life changes that we believe would make our lives better. Most of us don't make it through the first month. We all know how it feels when we fall off the bandwagon. It doesn't help our self-confidence or our self-esteem. Deep...
Mindset: For as he thinks in his heart, so he is
There are some things in life that we cannot change. For example, we cannot change our genes. Genes from our parents are sorted in particular ways to create a completely unique human being. We are the result of that process and have no control over it. It's out of our...
Hosting a Fundraising Event – What’s Your Goal?
The first step in planning anything - whether that is an event, an organization, a relationship - is to determine what the end goal or winning aspiration is. After all, how will you know that you've succeeded unless you know what you're aiming for? If you don't have a...