• Where does your time go? We all know we are busy, yet we feel behind and don’t get to do the things we really want to do.

  Planning is the best time saver there is. At the beginning of the week jot down your goals that you want to accomplish, fun things you want to do, work that needs to be done

• How often have you tried to manage your time in more productive ways, and found the process to be difficult and confusing? Perhaps you simply gave up on the idea. As one friend said, "Time management takes too much time!"

  These tips will simplify time management with five important steps that can bring remarkable...

• Connect and Engage! Your People Are Your Power.

  It's been said many times that true leadership is measured by ones ability to motivate and influence others.

  Leaders must work hard at motivating people to take action necessary to drive change and to ultimately increase results.

How strong are you?

I'm not asking if you can carry 150 lbs. of weight. What I'm after is your strength of character. How resilient are you to hang on to your dreams amidst the raging forces of discouragement and criticisms?

• The person who masters change, masters happiness. The best way to thrive in today's ever-fluid, volatile world, is to become a master of change. A "Change Master" not only welcomes, invites and celebrates the flux of constantly evolving life, but also consciously drives and directs these rhythms.

• This week’s article assumes that you have chosen a goal, dream, or task for yourself. You may or may not have started implementing your step by step plans yet. Are you a bit shaky in your faith though? Maybe you have a tendency to doubt your ability to carry this thing out to completion

• "The other night I ate at a real family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."

  One of the biggest obstacles to personal and career success is anger. When we fail to control our anger, we suffer several blows:

• Anger impedes our ability to be happy, because anger and happiness are incompatible.

• Anger sends marriages and other family relationships off-course.

One of the ways a person must advance past perfectionism is to deal with and gradually become more and more vulnerable. Every good perfectionist knows that this is VERY scary.

• Vulnerability involves allowing oneself to be open to feedback—both positive and negative from others.

• Vulnerability also involves the real risk that a perfectionist will have to experience moments of fragility, weakness, and pain.

• George Bush won the election because he was finally able to break out of the presidential bubble and give "leadership talks" on a consistent basis.

  But to do it, he had to face the dark night of his leadership soul. And this is a lesson for ALL leaders.