Your mindset reflects your past, describes your present, and predicts your future.

Excellence, like leadership, is built from the inside out. Your organization’s excellence will rarely exceed your team’s excellence, and your team’s excellence will rarely exceed your personal excellence.

Therefore, the most important question a leader should ask is: “What am I currently doing to improve my personal excellence?”

Inspiring coaches work  on themselves before they work on their teams. It starts inside with an understanding of yourself.

We all experience plenty of negative situations and people. The key is to be prepared to consciously respond to these negative inputs.

One way to help keep your emotions in balance regardless of the circumstances is to use the simple 5 × 5 Rule: If it won’t matter in five years don’t spend more than five minutes being upset by it.

Great leaders are great builders.

This poem by Charles Franklin Benvegar offers a powerful perspective...

I watched them tear a building down,

A gang of folks in a busy town.

With a Ho-Heave-Ho and a lusty yell,

They swung a beam and a side wall fell.

I asked the foreman,

"Are these people skilled?

The kind you would hire

If you wanted to build?"

He laughed and said,

"Oh no, indeed!

Unskilled labor is all I need.

For I can easily wreck in a day or two