6 Ingredients That Help You Plan for the Coming Year
Too often, business owners launch into the new year without a clear plan. Here are 6 ingredients for making an effective strategic plan.
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3 Benefits of Having a Vision
By casting an inspiring, practical picture of what you want for your organization, you can reap these 3 defining benefits.
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Why Vision Is More Important Than Strategy
Vision and strategy are both important. But there is a priority to them. Vision always comes first. Always. If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract…
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How to Leverage the L.E.A.P. Principle for Big Results
The turn of the year is always a good time to evaluate what’s working in our lives, what’s not, and make any changes that will start us down…
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How to Stay Mentally Fit
Last year, my business revenue grew 62 percent. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it presents a whole new set of problems—problems I didn’t face…
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What Ike’s Secret D-Day Letter Shows Us About Leadership
D-Day is known as a great victory for the allied forces, the beginning of the end for the Nazis as over 150,000 troops pushed into Europe in the…
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Why I Changed My Email Newsletter Strategy
I decided to change my email newsletter strategy last month. For years, I sent the entire blog post in the body of the email. We used a custom…
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How to Nail Your Goals with This Simple Secret
Most of us start pursuing our goals with great focus and intensity, but roadblocks inevitably surface before we’re far down the road. We might be tempted to quit,…
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4 Stages for Creating Maximum Impact for Your Message
I create a lot of content across my blog, podcast, online courses, books, and membership site. And sometimes readers and other content creators wonder about my strategy. The…
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How to Do More of What You Love and Less of What You Don’t
Do you have a long-term delegation strategy? This is the secret to moving more into “the zone” and getting out of those activities you don’t enjoy or don’t…
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Why Leaders Exist
Why do leaders exist? This is perhaps one of the most simple yet profound questions we can ask about leadership. Oddly, I am not sure I have ever…
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Leadership Question #6: Which is Most Important—Mission, Core Values or Vision?
At Thomas Nelson, our core ideology is comprised of four key elements. These are distinguishable but inseparable. It’s a little bit like talking about an orange. You can…
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