Category: Career Success
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Daily Deliberation: 29 November 2019
“I am way to busy to get to that today.” This is something we all say a lot. We can’t perceive taking 15 minutes from our crazy schedules for something else. However, if our car broke down on the way into work, we would find a way to get that towed and fixed. This process…
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Daily Deliberation: 28 November 2019
Why are the things that make us better so hard to do? Getting a gym routine in motion, changing our diet, stop chugging sodas, read more, etc. take major amounts of will power even though we know they are the right things to do. Making decisions as a leader often are very difficult too. Even…
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Daily Deliberation: 27 November 2019
When I saw this quote, I had a flashback to my childhood and heard my dad saying this to me. He didn’t use this direct quote, but he did teach me that if you are not going to put in the effort to do it the right way, don’t do it. Sometimes we get to…
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Daily Deliberation: 25 November 2019
We look at failure as such a negative thing. We are so afraid of its negative stigma, we never even try sometimes. Many suffer from a failure to launch because of this fear. Although, if we keep doing the same thing and failing at it over and over again, that makes us insane not a…
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Daily Deliberation: 24 November 2019
I wish I could say the same thing. Many times instead of slowing down to catch my breath, I allow myself to slide backwards. We don’t have to be perfect and can’t possible give it all everyday. When we hit our wall, slow down and focus only on one important thing…not ten. Catch your breath…
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Daily Deliberation: 21 November 2019
I always used to approach school as a checklist. Finish this history report and move on. Algebra II, Check. These were stepping stones on my path to freedom as a graduate. In many ways college was similar. It wasn’t until after I finished that I discovered a different view on education. Each time we learn…
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Daily Deliberation: 18 November 2019
We have leadership backwards. The old days of RHIP (Rank Has Its Privileges) are over, because they weren’t effective. The job of a leader is not to be served, but to serve others. The word Sergeant is actually derived from the old French word ‘serjant’ meaning servant. And as James C. Hunter teaches in one…
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Daily Deliberation: 17 November 2019
A lot of times, we are looking at the now. Our boss sucks, now. This job is not using my skills, now. I am not where I want to be, now. Before you give up, look where you want to be. How can your ‘now’ get you to that place?
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Daily Deliberation: 15 November 2019
I remember playing in the wood a lot as a kid. Sometimes we would find a path that was cleared taking us from one area to the next. Clearly, someone had come before me and did the work to take us where they thought we should go. Occasionally, we just accepted this and left the…
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Daily Deliberation: 12 November 2019
This concept really works. I used to have a position where I was entrusted with a direct line to the group commander. When we ran into issues on the flight line, I was able to make decisions above my “normal” authority. I made the decisions I was comfortable with and pushed the information to commander…
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