Category: Choices

Why Do We Make Personal Change So Hard?

Over the years I’ve worked with many lead­ers who say they want to improve their skills and devel­op as peo­ple. Yet, I’ve often watched them strug­gle when cre­at­ing, and espe­cial­ly imple­ment­ing any list of behav­ioral action steps. Per­son­al change, it seems, sud­den­ly becomes reduced to a set of chores. We all know about habit, com­fort… Con­tin­ue read­ing Why Do We Make Per­son­al Change So Hard?

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Contribution to Society

When I was a teenag­er and think­ing about my future my father would tell me, “what is impor­tant in life is mak­ing a con­tri­bu­tion to soci­ety.”  He nev­er defined exact­ly what he meant but he did­n’t have to. His tone called up all those he believed were not mak­ing such a con­tri­bu­tion: the self­ish and… Con­tin­ue read­ing Con­tri­bu­tion to Society

Scars

One rea­son we tell our­selves we do not trust oth­ers is because of our scars. We go back over our his­to­ry to think about events that have cost us some­thing. I recall con­duct­ing a class on speak­ing up at work and the moment when a woman sit­ting in one of the back rows broke her… Con­tin­ue read­ing Scars