There’s a quiet tension that I have been hearing about from many accomplished professionals. It’s lived with but rarely named. See if you can relate. You can appreciate your life, your work, even your success, and still feel a pull toward something more. Not because...

Don’t let the words anabolic and catabolic scare you but allow me to geek out here. Remember these words from biology? They are process of metabolism and biochemistry within your body. But I want to apply them to our energy field as leaders and to have you remember...

To me, January  has a way of stripping things down. The noise quiets, until it doesn’t. The calendar loosens up a bit, until end of the quarter, and then it’s full again. And suddenly, accomplishments that once felt solid don’t land the way they used to. That...

By the time mid-January rolls around, I’ve usually already abandoned a few resolutions. Quietly, intentionally, without guilt. Not because I lack discipline, but because experience has taught me something most professionals won’t admit out loud: many resolutions sound...

Before we talk strategy, goals, or planning, I want to bring up what might be a sensitive subject to some. If last year did not go the way you expected, you aren’t behind. You are right where you are supposed to be! One of the most overlooked leadership skills is...

As the year starts, most conversations default to what we should add—new goals, new strategies, new commitments. But growth at this stage of our careers rarely comes from accumulation. It comes from taking things off our plate! The quiet decision to stop doing the...