3 Ways to Become a Great Leader
In my work studying and coaching leaders over the last decade, I've been reminded over and over again that leaders don't become great by mere happenstance. They grow themselves intentionally by doing the following three things. 1. Great Leaders anticipate...
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
This is a great video by Nadine Burke Harris about the effects of severe trauma on children throughout their lifetime. Many orphans and vulnerable children encounter such trauma in their childhood and this cannot be ignored. Watch this video to learn how to dig deeper...
Why you need a coach
“You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input, you will never be as good as you could be. We all do better when somebody is watching and...
How to find fulfillment in life
It's no secret but we all need to be reminded. The way to find fulfillment in life is to do something for someone else, not for yourself. It's not self-help but helping others. For more on this, check out my blog, the 7 fundamental human needs. Do you have a strategy...
Why you should say and do only what you believe
Whether in personal relationships with friends or in business relationships with our customers, whether in private or on social media, we are tempted to say and do things that make us fit it. We want to say things in our relationships with friends and colleagues that...
Issues of Character vs. Issues of Competence
We are always going through issues. We are either in one right now, just finishing one, or are about to enter another. That's life. If someone were to ask you this question: Are the issues you are going through right now issues of character or issues of competence?...
You have more control over your life than you think
"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." Chuck Swindoll There are many things about life that we cannot control. We don't control the weather. We don't control when, where, and how you are born. Some of us are born in the slums of Nairobi, others...
The Power of Effectively Training Up A Child
Taking shoes off by the piano A mum taught her little 3 year old girl and her friends to take their shoes off and put them near the piano so that none of them would trip over them and fall. Now 21 years old, the young woman visited her mother and took her shoes off...
Helping Children Integrate in Their Communities
You've probably heard the saying "It takes a village to raise a child." This concept is very true when it comes to any sort of child rearing, especially when working with orphaned, abandoned, or displaced children. Integrating a child with their community is key for...
12 Ways to Excel on your Board Exams
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." --Aristotle. Most...