Constantly take the time to sharpen your skills through feedback and learning. Embrace the mistakes you make and lessons you get if you look for them.
Leadership story: How to train a donkey the right way
Implementing changes without monitoring how they affect everyone in the process can lead to unwanted results. Learn how to train yourself and others.
Mindset story: The importance of finding meaning in your work
By finding meaning in your work determines how successful you will be. If what you do is just a job, it will be a lot harder to do it when things get hard.
Funny story: If we make a special exception for you will it be special?
Make sure that you don’t end up like the man in the story who in the end finds out that the special exception made for him isn’t special at all.
Book review: MORE MAGIC OF METAPHOR by Nick Owen
In More Magic of Metaphor, Nick Owen shares with you stories that will help you or your target audience develop different perspectives. The book is a great storytelling tool that will help you improve your persuasion skills.
Wisdom story: It’s up to you which of the two wolves inside you wins
What you think and what you do daily are the building blocks of your future. Which of the two wolves are you feeding the most?
Wisdom story: You can only find what you focus on
Focus is key to finding what you want. Be sure you focus on the right things, the things that are important to you and not to other people.
Perseverance story: What life lesson can you learn growing tomatoes
A story of an old mentor and his apprentice who wants to give up just because of one setback. The mentors lesson this time is in the tomato. And what is the lesson?
Wisdom story: How big of a splash you want to make in life is in your hands
Todays story is about commitment. Your commitment to what you want to achieve is an indicator of what you are able to actually achieve in life.
Mindset story: Always give it all you got, lessons from the carpenters’ last project
How much do you think your work is worth? And how many times do you give it all you got? In the end our results define how much our time is worth.