When I was a little girl, I dreamed of going to Harvard University. I wore my crimson Harvard sweatshirt several times a week and made fond memories of eating Tasty Burgers with my middle school speech team that traveled to the Cambridge campus every spring for a national speech tournament. But as limiting beliefs began to shape me in high school, my plans changed. I no longer saw myself as a Harvard girl. “Harvard is …
We can’t achieve a business or personal goal with the same knowledge, skills, or mindset that we currently have. Instead, we have to GROW into our goals — that means we must change. While change is necessary and inevitable, most of us (and our teams) fear it and that fear holds us back from making lasting change that will significantly up-level our lives and businesses. There are 3 main fears or concerns we have about …
I believe that we human beings are inherently driven to express our true greatness and keep growing. In fact, in the Audible book “Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility” written by Patty McCord, who was the chief talent officer of Netflix and responsible for creating its innovative culture, she agrees with this belief. She shares that their high performance culture was created by offering challenges and problems that need to be solved to …
“Being right is like heroin to human beings,” says Baron Baptiste, one of my teachers. There is a lot of “rightness” being pushed around right now. The problem (or perhaps the solution if we can see how this influences us) is that we all are, in fact, right. The beliefs we tightly hold onto came from our life experiences and made them right and true for us. This doesn’t mean they are universal truths, but, …
If you are reading this and following me, it’s likely you are committed to growth in your life in some way. You want to understand better so you can do better. As Abraham Maslow discussed in his motivation theory, The Hierarchy of Needs, you want to become self actualized, which means achieving your full potential in life. Your and my drive for growth may be at different strengths or paces, but we are committed to …