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Want To Be a Great Leader? Train Your Glutes!
Your gluteus maximus (or more commonly known as your butt) is the largest and strongest muscle in your body. Stay with me, this is a leadership article. If you are a runner, for example, you’ve probably suffered from one of the following maladies at one time or another: achilles tendonitis, shin splints, runner’s knee, iliotibial…
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Pride Doesn’t Just Make Leaders Loud — It Makes Them Reckless
I’m a real tough guy, just ask me. Former Navy SEAL. Former FBI Special Agent. FBI SWAT Operator. Combat veteran. Terrorist hunter. Can you feel the heat? After I left the FBI’s flagship office in New York, I found myself in a small, remote office. The entire place was about the size of one of…
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Time To Get Over It. Stop Labeling “Millennials” and Start Leading Them
The Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennial’s, Gen Z. Enough! Whoever makes these labels needs to readjust and label groups as they pass through time, not as an entire generation. What do I mean exactly? Twenty somethings will always act like twenty somethings regardless of when they were born. They act like know-it-all’s, they…
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A Letter From My Father
It has been almost 4 years since my father’s passing. Like anyone else that has lost someone close to them, truly not a day goes by without thinking about him and how much I miss him. I recently came across an old letter my father wrote me over 30 years ago. I was at the…
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Want to Find the Way to Motivation and Inner Strength? Think “ME” First.
Selfish: (adjective); (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure. When it comes to leadership and the way to find your own motivation and inner strength, the “Think ‘ME’ first” recommendation I site in the title does not have a relationship with the word…
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365 Days at 36.5 Degrees: Why Ice Baths and Not Breathing?
Why am I focusing my new personal challenge that I call 365 at 36.5 on ice baths and cold exposure instead of some other form of mental, emotional, or physical activity like breathing, mediation, or exercise? The short answer is focus and intention. You cannot hide from the cold. The cold will help us sharpen our intention…
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365 Days at 36.5 Degrees and Intention: What Is Yours?
What is the intention of 365 at 36.5? The beauty of this question is that the answer will be different for everyone. However, I strongly encourage you to find an answer, or your intention, before you start. Make it about more than just getting in. What can this look like? Perhaps you are going to start…
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365 Days at 36.5 Degrees: The Challenge of Finding Intention
There are things you simply must get done every day that do not feel like they carry grand meaning. You have to wake up, brush your teeth, get the kids ready for school, walk the dog, have coffee and breakfast, drive to work, sit at your desk, work, (maybe) try to get some exercise in,…
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The Ice Cold Leader Process and Young Adults: Finding Your Breath to Recognize the Emotion
In our previous post, we discussed the importance of recognizing and acknowledging your emotions so you can make conscious decisions on how you want to act on them. If we simply act on our emotions without first acknowledging them then our actions, and our results, will be random. Leaders make conscious decisions on how to…
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Want To Be a Great Leader? Take an Ice Bath
One of the things many leaders struggle with is the thought that they need to be accomplishing an unrealistic number of things at the same time. The fact of the matter is you can only do one thing at a time. You may switch from one thing to another very quickly, even by the second.…