We can be a miserable lot. Humans. - History has proven our capacity to treat one another poorly. The first children ever born demonstrate it. Cain killed his brother Abel. - According to the FBI, 24.8% of homicides are committed by family members.

Recently I've been leveraging the power of character strengths to help leaders and business owners figure out improved team alignment. It begins with leaders having an enlightened awareness of their own character.

Happy Monday! I'm picking on today's topic because today is my wife's birthday. And she's living proof - at least to me - of the power of others. We began dating as teenagers and have been married for over 41 years.

I'm a practical person. And rather proud of it. But the strength can be a weakness when it's deployed too much. Or in the wrong way. For instance, it can prevent me from thinking big enough. But it never prevents me from idealism - so I can be a walkin...

"That's not how I see it." - We've all used that sentence. Some more than others. - Question: how open are you to understand another perspective? - About anything. But let's keep this business related. - In the past few weeks,

That line is part of the first page of Og Mandino's book, The Greatest Salesman In The World. I will persist until I succeed. That's another line from the same passage. - Both lines address something other than a positive affirmation of the desire t...

It's true in our lives and in our businesses. We make adjustments - changes and improvements - when something isn't working very well. Usually, when things aren't working at all or when something is truly broken. -

Last week I watched an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson. The conversation turned toward alcohol. Particularly, getting off of it - breaking the addiction to it. - Said Peterson, "Alcohol is a really good drug. It's effective.

We'll wrap up this week's freedom theme with some thoughts about the freedom to decide the people who we'll allow to impact our lives. It's the idea Leo Bottary and I concentrate on in our podcast, WHAT ANYONE CAN DO. -

Let's put the G on the end of LUG - learn, understand, grow. Today we continue this series on freedom since Monday was Memorial Day here in the United States. The freedom to grow! - Growth has pains. But that doesn't make it bad. -