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Productivity Hacks To Avoid Burnout motivation

Productivity is an essential part of being successful. Being a hardworking, productive person is very likely a huge part of what put you on your current leadership track. After all, it’s reasonable to believe your bosses saw everything you did and believed that you were capable of doing...

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Egos – The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall motivation

Egos: you just can’t avoid them!

If you have managed to avoid wildly bloated egos in the workplace you are a Unicorn. Working with special operations units to life in the private sector AND even my own… working with egotistical maniacal leadership is like managing a mine field. The...

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How to Improve Your Decision Making Skills motivation

As you improve your decision making skills your leadership ability will also improve. Leaders must make difficult decisions in any environment.

No matter what career or industry you’re in, if you’re the leader, it will fall to you to make the tough choices. And trust us, there will...

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Team Building Tips For A Better Culture motivation

Team building is a critical skill for creating the right culture and allowing you to foster a healthy. work environment for you and your team.

Creating  the right team and a healthy work environment is about so much more than productivity!

Obviously, most of us want to get more done—or...

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Screw Gym Memberships fitness

Screw Gym Memberships! I recently read a short article where Elizabeth Hurley was interviewed. She is perhaps one of the most beautiful women on the planet and recently turned 53.  Her Secret? She doesn’t workout in a gym and does not even have a gym membership. 

How is this...

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Shooting Skills – Carbine Shooting Fundamentals fitness

When I teach carbine shooting fundamentals or even pistol fundamentals for that matter, I start from the ground up, literally.  However, the often repeated, “unless you intend to shoot, ALWAYS ensure your Finger is OFF the Trigger” is constantly inserted in the...

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Building An Iron Mindset motivation

Mindset is the cornerstone of any successful person.  “John Black” (no that is not his real name, but he is a real person and still on active duty) prepped this article for you. 

Building an Iron Mindset

When I made it through brutal Special Forces “Hell Week”...

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Cold Hard Truths about Leadership motivation

Leadership has become a topic of much discussion over the last decade. This Is due in part to the massive growth in social media coupled with a societal desire to question previously accepted norms. 

For all the leadership advice floating around out there, and there is no shortage,...

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How to Create a Positive Work Environment motivation

Creating a positive work environment for your team is vital to your success in business or even in the public sector for that matter.

Everyone wants to work in a positive environment, and although that has very different meanings to different people, a positive work environment should always...

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Emotional Detachment is Critical for Success… or is it? motivation

Emotional Detachment: A Critical Key to Professional Success?

Many people tend to want to get involved in the lives of their staff or co-workers.

After all, it’s that emotional investment in their wellbeing that binds them to you and makes them feel you care, right?

Yes and no…

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How To Stay Mentally Strong During Any Crisis motivation

Having the ability to stay mentally strong during a crisis will enable you to reach a successful outcome and possibly even save your life or the lives of those around you.

Everyone faces crises at some point in their lives!

From financial emergencies to crazy deadlines to sudden personnel losses...

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Personal Growth – 5 Steps To Accelerate Your Journey motivation

5 Steps that will accelerate your personal growth and make your desire to become a better person just a little more clear.

Leadership requires growth everyday, even in small ways.

Think about it: in order to have an effective team, your team members will have to adapt to working with each...

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