Author: Joe Lawrence
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Read More Books Starting Today
My whole life I have valued the benefits of reading. Although, I am such a slow reader, I never really wanted to invest the time it took me to read a book. I would read maybe a book a year into adulthood and this is something I always “wanted” to overcome, but never placed any…
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What Should be on a TSgt’s EPR?
One of the most frequent questions I get as the senior enlisted leader in my unit is how an EPR should read. I love getting this question because it means people are looking out for their subordinate or doing their best to improve themselves. For this article I will go into how I think a…
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After Reading this, You Might Want to Unfollow Me
Over the past year, we have all seen a post on social media that starts off like this or with a “I am ready to clean up my friends list soon.” I see statements like this as pure buffoonery. Nothing more than the childhood version of ‘play my game or I am going home.’ I…
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Are Leaders Puppets?
The recent inauguration of our 45th President, Donald Trump, has brought about a mixture of opinions of what type of a leader he should be or the type he will be. Many say our elected officials are just puppets who should be toeing the company line and doing what the majority of the population wants.…
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Will Course 15 Make You a Better Leader?
I will start this article with the short answer to avoid the “click-bait” criticism: no, it will not. Recently, I sat on a mentorship panel with a room full of eager NCOs and this topic came up amongst the masses. It should come as no surprise, but not a single person in the room thought…
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If Only I knew then What I Know Now!
‘If I could go back to high school, I would do things a lot differently.’ ‘I would be rich today if I had known how to invest five years ago.’ ‘I wish I would have started working out six months ago!’ Sound familiar? Have you ever thought anything similar to this? I think we all…
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Education Opportunities
Looking for something to expand your mind without jumping into a whole degree plan? Maybe looking for an education bullet on your next EPR? There are some sites out there that allow us to take classes from universities like Wharton, Harvard, MIT and just about any other one you can imagine for free. These allow…
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3 Lessons Learned from my Father
“You are a man now. What you do or don’t do is your choice, but you have to own the consequences of those choices.” These were the words spoken to 15-year-old me by my father almost 22 years ago. To this day, I still reflect on that moment and the many more where he offered sage…
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Bullet Writing Tips (TSgt Jeffrey Henebry)
Here is a really good bullet writing presentation and tracker courtesy of TSgt Jeffrey Henebry: bullet-writing-for-jr-enlisted-final-locked bullet-tracker
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Managing Talent
“To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability…The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. But the…
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