Eat Right. Lead Better.
Here’s a great quote for today: “When your diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When your diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”
Physical Activity is Linked to Leadership Excellence
This just in: Exercise and physical activity are linked to leadership effectiveness. And get this: According to the Center for Creative Leadership, leaders who are physically fit are considered by their boards, bosses, peers, and direct reports to be more effective leaders than those who aren’t.
Do You Have Traction?
For years, researchers have been examining the routines of high-performing leaders. Obviously, it should come as no surprise that best-in-class leaders do a lot of things right.
Do You Know How to Guard Your Focus?
These days, it’s not uncommon to wonder if your attention span is getting worse.
If you feel this way, you aren’t wrong. And you aren’t alone.
If You Want to Lead, You Have to Read
As a Leader of LIGHT, you have an important challenge ahead of you: You have to grow yourself, and at the same time, you have to grow everyone around you. Balancing these two tasks can be very difficult.
4 Great Resources To Help You Get Forgivingly Fit
One of the core tenets of being a leader of light is practicing forgiveness. In fact, it’s part of our fifth principle: Talk, Walk, and Teach Civility, Kindness, Forgiveness, and a Love for All.
15 Minute Fixes: How To Get Better at Forgiving Others
When it comes to forgiveness, every leader of light needs to have a powerful exercise that can be employed at a moment’s notice to help those in your charge.
7 Ways to Become Forgivingly Fit
Author C.S. Lewis relates, “Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
Do You Have A Problem With Forgiveness?
Anyone who’s in a leadership position understands that it’s a lot easier to talk about forgiveness than it is to actually do it.
The Power of Forgiveness
As leaders of light, it’s guaranteed that we will find ourselves in situations that test our patience. Dealing with broken promises, missed deadlines, substandard performance, and blatant disregard for important organizational values (just to mention a few!) are all part and parcel of the leadership experience.